Sept 11 Vegy Garden Update

Shallots and Onions, and Garlic

Asparagus starting to shoot already

A rather cool day today, top of about 14 degrees and a fresh wind. Last week we had nice warm weather touching early twenties in the sun. As Spring is here now, the weather will start to warm up and temperatures increase which is great in my books.

Not much happening at present in the vegetable garden. What's going? The shallots and onions are growing rather well and the garlic growing strong as you can see in the top picture. Needs weeding.

The lower picture displays the asparugus with last seasons shoots still there. I will need to chop those off ready for the new shoots for this season. The new shoots have beaten me to it and have started. I will chop them off during the week to also help tidy up the patch. I will harvest this season from the asparugus. It's now been three seasons. I look forward to eating it.

The entire vegetable patch needs a bloody good weed extraction job. Then all will be happier. Also the Sage is growing well and shown in the picture with the asparugus.

I have thyme growing well in the opposite side of the patch. Last year I did not harvest any and I am determined to harvest as much as I can this season. I will start to harvest this week and will look into preserving the herb for later use just like what I did with the sage a season or so back.

Today I also added more kitchen crap to the compost. The compost is doing fine.

I harvested more potatoes this morning. So many, it's not funny. Will be giving 3 to 4 kilos to Mum and Dad. I took in another 4 or kilos into the pantry. I need to pull as much up as possible as I do notice now that the potoes that aren't harvested are begining to sprout and grow into new potatoe plants. If these grew they would not last long as we will have aferw more morning frosts yet. Mid to late October I think I'll sow potatoe tubers. In regards to potatoes, I purchased this afternoon a red sweet potatoe from good old Coles andf I will attempt to grow sweet potatoe. I'll wait abit till end October then do it. I heard once on the radio that a uy here in Canberra did do rather well in producing a red sweet potatoe harvest. So I'm go to give it a shot. Sweet  Potatoes are more suited to growing in the tropical climates. Here in Murrumbateman/Canberra we are within the cool climate belt. Will let you know how I go with it.

So I look forward to the Spring weather and a great Summer vegetable gardening experience. Happy vegies!