This is the first garden snapshot of 2018. It's a full blown summer now here in Melbourne, we had a 41 degrees Celcius day last week, the plants survived.
The most exciting news for this post is the Pomegranate tree. After a long wait, finally, we have fruits!! Five fruits to be exact, I have my fingers and toes crossed as they are still growing. Arrgh, I don't want them to drop!!
The other trees are growing well, but no fruit in sight for the mandarin, lemon and lime.
I planted extra pumpkin seeds a few months ago and have no spot for them, so I transplanted them on the ground behind the gate. Since the temperature had gone up, they seem to grow larger. Maybe we will have pumpkin harvest this year, who knows..
A bunch of new additions to the family, 2 Amla trees (Indian Gooseberry), I'm hoping I can get the berries for consumption and also for my homemade shampoo infusion, 1 Katuk or Sweetleaf plant, Indonesian vegetable that I was looking for ages ago to help increasing breast milk production, and finally, another Indonesian plant, Blimbi, or Belimbing Wuluh, a bit like the starfruit fruit, but the vegetable type, for cooking savoury dishes.
They arrived today from Daley's and currently resting under the shade. It's quite a hot day today.
Another major milestone for this post that we're super excited is the tomato plants.
Unexpectedly, the first one that flowered and produced fruits was the one that grew from compost, next to the mango tree.
The other tomato plants are growing well too, and there are lots of fruits started to form.
These are the ones that I started as seedlings indoor during the late winter.
This is another tomato plant that beats the odd, growing from compost.
I almost pulled this one out, lucky thing I spotted the fruits that had started growing.
This would be the yellow pear cherry tomatoes.
We have had a few harvest of the beans in the last few weeks, they have started to produce after the temperature raised up.
It looks like the harvest is still going on.
Chili plants that I planted at the west side of the garden seemed to love the heat.
Lots of flowers and there are a few chilies that had already formed.
They occupied this spot with the family of mints.
Last, but not least, out of hundreds of chamomile seeds that I planted, one survived.
And it's been producing lots of flowers, which I have been collecting to make my own chamomile tea.
