Spring 2019 Planting Stage 1

With the weather (finally) warming up in Melbourne, I decided to transplant some of the seedlings that look ready.

First are the pumpkins, the below photo was taken 1 week ago. They have grown more true leaves and the roots have grown very long.

They are now at the front garden where they should get ample sunlight during the day.

Second, the cabbages, cauliflower and lettuce seedlings have grown enough number of true leaves, so they were planted at the front garden as well this morning. Also on the photos are lettuce and spinach seedlings.

Photo from 1 week ago. Cabbages (back right), cauliflower (front right), broccoli (back left) and lettuce (front left)

Photo taken yesterday.

The cabbages and cauliflower were planted around the poppies bed where they will get lots of morning sun.

Some of the lettuce seedlings were planted at the front garden as well, since they were doing well on that section last year.

Third, lettuce, spinach and broccoli  seedlings were ready.

The big lettuces were from last winter and new seedlings planted in front of them.

Broccoli also occupy the same spot this spring as last time.

The remaining of lettuce and spinach seedlings were planted in garden bed 3 this year.

Lastly, the tomatoes that I planted in August 2019 were finally ready to meet the outdoor weather.

Garden bed 4 were cleared yesterday to make space for the tomatoes.

New occupants of garden bed 4, with some space left on the right hand side for cucumber, capsicum and beefsteak tomatoes.

All of the seedlings have been covered with with pea straw mulch since the photos were taken.

Garden bed 2 filled with broad beans, long beans, anak beans and all sorts of beans.

Photo taken 2 weeks ago.

Photo from this morning.

With new beans seedlings popping out.

Raspberry bush is back and growing new branches. There are a few flowers already showing and I hope there will be walls of raspberries soon.

Cranberries have grown it's leaves back. 

Various Harvest February 2018

We had variety of different harvest earlier this month, the most exciting harvest was the French Marigold seeds.

I planted lots of this little seeds earlier in spring, but didn't have too much success in germinating them. So, to my amazement, the little success had produced abundant of seeds, which I went ahead and planted all over the front garden bed.

It's very satisfying collecting these seeds, there are lots in each of the dead flower head.

There are lots of new seedlings of French Marigold. I'm hoping it will be a success this time. I'd like to make them into border of the front garden bed. The companion planting for my roses seems to work this year.

Also, from earlier of the month, the adzuki beans pods had started to grow and then dried up. I wasn't looking for these little treasure, so it was a pleasant surprise to see them. We've collected quite a few already and we can see new green pods started appearing. 

So, we're on the lookout for dried up pods.

The Spinach Perpetual Gator has been an amazing supply of greens for this home. This is probably the 4th or 5th harvest to this amount since December. I bought my seeds from The Seed Collection.

We'll be coming back for more next year.

And, lastly, the snake beans had finally arrived!! This is the first harvest that we had last week.

It's so exciting, as we can see lots of flowers and little snake beans everywhere. We're going to have abundant of this. Look at the size of it!