Showing posts with label yacon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yacon. Show all posts

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Spring 2016

My garden this spring- i didn't sow any seeds because i'm stupid!!

Borage going nuts! Yay! Bees love me!
Borage again
Rocket on the left, beans on the right and onions
we have cola on the far left (behind nasturtium) and volunteer brassicas, mint absolutely blossoming the last 2 weeks! Strawberries now in hanging baskets! 
all the strawberries flowering since late winter and hopefully soon some will be ready to eat!

strawberry spinach in the middle. Alliums do not take kindly to replanting. oops.

yellow nasturtiums came out of nowhere! Oak lettuce was tasty and fruitful! Only shame is that it is an awkward long skinny shape (like an overgrown rocket leaf) which i hate.  I prefer them round like tom thumb- though less wrinkly! (I'm fussy i know). Has a "sugar pea" like flavour.
Dill, only took 4 years to FINALLY freaking grow one! 

Rocket, brigade, pegasus and "our hybrid heirloom one" that we've been growing ourselves for about 10 years. Dad recons it crossed with a radish?
Blueberry flowers! Unfortunately one of them died- so not sure i'll get anything this year :(
Bit hectic! Cape gooseberry dominating the blue barrel. The dill is a tree! 

Nasturtiums are quite pretty even if they stink. Climbing up the fence too is quite pretty! Borage actually grows if it is in the soil- who knew?!

cape gooseberry - tasted one today- the flavour is sour then sweet. So odd! Floral, fruity and tomatoey- but not much. Insane! I quite like it.

Snails i will murder you all. My poor yacon!!!!

spearmint

persimmon growing some buds- you can see my poor cotton plant died just before the flowers bloomed when a frost killed it, i should have figured a way to cover it. oh well. :'( I would have had 30 cotton balls! SO FREAKING SAD!!!! Snails like to eat my cotton seedlings. Weirdos.

Kale and brussel sprouts slowly being murdered by my father, some tomato seedlings out of view.
FINALLY in the ground the pepino melon survived the winter and FLOURISHED. I have one that the snails got to- realy stunts it. Rude buggers...
As you can see the valerian looks fine- what you don't know is it entirely died in the winter and came back up. Last winter it didn't die- how odd?!!

Beans and nasturtium under the tree with a "volunteer" borage- i had been throwing borage flower heads over on purpose praying for some to grow!! Haha. You can hear the humm of the bees!

PIGFACE! From a cutting took 3 years to grow- then my father chops off 50% of it just before flowering season- WHAT AN A- HOLE

wounds from him killing my plants are not even fresh but it is the reason why i stopped sowing seeds, because in fact i had sown seed- but he RIPPED THEM OUT all 3 times, so i just give up. 

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

SPRING HUSTLE

OH the hustle and bustle of spring!


I mad rushed planted seeds, waited a fortnight, realized barely any sprouted, and repeat. I like to plant them early, and also some late, just getting a range of "ages" to extend harvest and ensure germination if the weather is being weird.


Got my tomatoes in, gooseberries...etc

I really hoped to get capsicum this year, didn't happen, so i ran out of seed and gave up!

Birds attacked half of my seedlings and i had to replant!

The best seedling pots is newspaper THROUGH AND THROUGH.


Also I'm over Kale. LESSON LEARNED only 2 max of each kind of kale, you don't even like Kale anyway! (except as "pizza" chips)



 Did some weeding too...some plucking, some digging for this nasty heart shaped leaf rhizome one, and some smothering with cardboard:


I have seen an influx of a native bee here: They love the radish flowers and the cornflower so I may continue to plant cornflower (thought I haven't actively this year). Don't really want to dedicate too much to a plant that has 1 purpose, though it is edible I did NOT enjoy it so instead of being edible and bee attracting it is just one. (petals are tough and has barely any flavour). But it is pretty and my nephew loves it. So I wont pull out the existing one.


LOVED the watermelon radish. Tasted ok. Low calorie and so so pretty! I am trying to seed some, the flower is above, root below.


We are being run by these bunching onions. They are more like spring onions or even chives. A bit hopeless barely a bulb, not even worth it!!! I think I'll pull the lot out, slowly eating them, and then I will have some planted in a sandy area. ATM they are in almost every pot plant and just all over the place, it's excessive and I'd rather plant something else there.


I'm excited for some first time plants:
crimson forest onions, Salad burnet, Summer savoury (less spicy than the winter kind), brahmi, yacon, gooseberries, Oca / New Zealand Yam, strawberry spinach, winged bean (looks not promising), nigella (fail), black salsify, sage, toothache plant, dark opal basil, ...

Repeats: purple king bean, ...