Christmas 2013 vegetable gardening

What my vegetable garden looks like this morning on this rather warm Christmas morning. I placed the last of the sugar cane mulch around the zucchini and cucumber to help with the moisture in the soil. We are going away for a few days and I need the moisture to keep, even though there is rain predicted late this afternoon and storms tomorrow. I also gave a healthy watering too. Merry Christmas and wishing you a successful 2014 vegetable patch in your backyard! 

Seedlings emerge!

Hi,

On the 14th December '13, I noticed the first of the seedlings emerging. See the picture below.

First to come through is the zuchini and radish. They are pretty much doubling in size every day (early on).

Also, tomatoes are gtrowing well, you can see the growth going well each day. We have had beautiful warm weather and with myself watering, the vegies are growing very well.

Now today (16 December 2013) ....... just watered and took a general update photo of the vegatable garden as it is now. Quite a difference since the 14th! See below.

Now some close up pictures of:

Sweet Corn

Cucumber

Zuchini

Radish

Ciao!

Seeded new seeds

Yo!

Yesterday afternoon I removed weeds and dug up an area of the vegetable garden to air over night. See below my efforts of yesterday.

I then this morning spread out concentrate manure pelets and dug that in.

After raking the area, I then sowed the following seeds:

1. Radish - Scarlet Globe (Raphanus sativus)
2. Shallot - Longwhite Bunching (Allium cepa)
3. Sweet Corn - Early Extra Sweet F1 (Zea mays)
4. Zucchini - Romanesco (Cucurbita pepo)
5. Cucumber - Long Green Supermarket (Cucumis sativus)

See picture below showing new beds prior to me watering.

I watered and that's it. Thank god I got them in as it is past early December.

Lastly but not less important, I staked the tomatoes I have in the vegie garden. They are growing well. See the pic below.

Cheers, Steve The VegyGardener.

November Planting - Tomatoes

Hi after a fairly long absense. So let's get straight into it with an update of what has happened in the veggie patch.

1. Not very much. Problem is I have let it go again and is full of weeds.

2. I have cleared and cultivated a section of the vegetable garden for tomato plants. See picture below showing the area cleared and the state of the garden.17 November 2013.

3. Planted eight tomatoe plants and mulched with sugar cane. Planted about the one meter apart from each other. Tomatoes chosen were: Roma, Mini Sugar Plum, Blood Oath, Mortage Lifter, Rebel, Beef Steak, & Ox Heart. See picture below.19 November 2013.

Summer is upon us and starts today!

Bye for now. S.

Mothers Day update!

Hey,

Harvested all the pumpkins from the vegetable garden last week and took a photo. See below. Pumpkin soup all round hey?

Just quickly, garden going ok. Since we are about to put the house on market, I won't be sowing any garlic cloves as it is now time to do so. Vegie patch needs a good clean up and weed.

Catchya.

Picture Update

Hours before the expected rain we are having today, I'd thought I'd update this blog in pictures.

catching the early morning sunrise showing the cos lettuce I planted afew weeks back

The background showing the turnip and brocolli, all growing well.

Tomatoes, the black cherry tomatoes taste sensational! Gotta get more for next season

Part 1 - Showing the pumpkins outside the vegetable garden (south side)

Part 2 - Showing the pumpkins outside the vegetable garden (west side)

March Vegetable Gardening

Hi, it's been a short absense, so here we go with an update:

Planted a packet of Yates salad mix of lettuce. The days are still warm which is nice and I'm trying to catch this warm weather for germinating these seeds. But unfortunately the first frosts will be around the corner. Just hope it's a big corner. So before I sowed these seeds of lettuce, I weeded yesterday the section of the patch and then this morning dig and turned it over. Now watering. Done.

The broad climbing beans and potatoes plants have all died back. Potatoes I will leave in the ground ready when needed for harvesting. The beans, gee, have dried up so I'll wait a little longer and gather a bag of seeds for next season. The first batch of radish has seeded but not yet dry, so I'm waiting for them to to dry to collect. Possibly in the coming weeks. The pumpkins have really grown and have spread throughout the area about the vegy patch. That's why I force them outside. Brocolli, turnip, and cos lettuce are growing very well. The broocolli and turnip are about a foot high. We pick a cos lettuce every day to eat in the kitchen. That's why I have a vegetable garden! See photos below::::

Brocolli, Turnip and Cos Lettuce beds

On the right, the new bed of Salad Mix of Lettuce

The bed of dead potatoe plants. Ready for the taking.

The Climbing Beans just about gone. See the dry pods of beans, for seeds.

Pumpkins growing outside the patch, more room!

Pumplkins as abbove, but showing afew pumpkins growing

Transplanting

Hi

This morning I separated and transplanted the following into a new area of the patch:

1. 51 x Brocolli plants
2. 24 x Turnip plants
3. 79 x Cos Lettuce plants

I weeded first the area of concern and then simply put them in, gave a water and then pissed off. See below pictures (before and after):-

About 7am this morning

About 9am this morning

In other news, the Atomic Red Carrot seeds that I sowed some time back (22/1) never come up, so they are dead. But the other Purple Dragon Carrots are doing fine. Picked some cherry Tomatoes and another Zuchini. Noticed the first batch of Radishes are starting to seed, so I'll leave them in to collect the seeds once they go dry.

See picture below of my beautiful Basil. Smells great!

Also the Roma Tomatoes are growing well, just not ready. But there is a shit load of them just on one plant I have, see pic below.

Have a good week! Steve the VegyGardener.

February '13 Vegetables

I have returned from a day at the fire shed (new one - building it - plasterboard) and have watered the vegy patch. So while doing that, I decided to take afew shots with the iphone. See below pictures.

Anyway, the seeds that I thought were washed away with last weekends thunderstorm have grown like crazy and weren't washed away at all. They stood their ground and are now growing nicely. See last picture below. Picked another two young yet nice sized Zuchini's and a good health batch of beans (1st off). Cucumber is growing crazy too, yet no fruit. But have noticed afew 5 cent sized cucumbers. Pumpkins have taken off and I have directed them to grow outside the vegy patch, basically to keep the patch half clear. Basil is a plenty. Corriander is starting to flower and will eventually seed. Purple Carrots (1st batch) are growing well, yet still too small to harvest.

All the best till next time. S.

Too Much Rain!

We have had alot of rain this weekend, coming from the NW. See the below photographic evidence.

The heavy rain (58mm of it) made some damage to the newly sowed seeds I worked on some days ago. Bugger! I think most of the seeds have washed al together in the gullys of the vegetable patch. We'll see how it all pans out.

Seeds are a Sowin'

This Australia Day morning (AEDST Australia) I have sown Spinach, Cos Lettuce, and Scarlet Globe Radish seeds into the vegetable garden. Once they are at a good size, I'll separate the cos lettuce, and what I planted earlier on the turnip and brocolli. Well that's it! See picture below shoowing where the beds are that concern the above what's sown.

Also noticed the Turnip already sprouting, which was quick. I sowed them about five days back. They are in the far top corner of the picture.

Alright, better get out there to move the sprinkler.... Steve the Vegygardener.

Have a great Australia Day 2013.

Vegetable Gardening

Hi fellow Vegy Lovers!

A new update on what's happening in the vegetable garden.

Sowed new seeds into the patch on the 21st January 2013. They are:

1. Shallots
2. Brocolli (two packs)
3. Turnip
4. Carrots x 2 (Purple Dragon and Atomic Red)

The carrots I picked up from a crowd off ebay, so see what happens there, also I'm planning to sow more seeds such as Spinach, Cos Lettuce, and Scarlet Globe Radish in the next day or two. Stay tuned for that.

Noticed the Climbing Beans have taken off, Tomatoes are growing well but not producing fruit yet. The Pumkins are showing their worth. They are growing like nuts, so I have encouraged them to grow out past the perimeter of the vegetable garden. The first batch of Shallots are about 200-250mm high (ie 8 to 10 inches). We have picked Zuchini afew times already this season which is good. See below pictures.

The following pictures I took with my iphone literally just moments ago-----

Below are other pictures showing some very hot days we have been having and a sensational sunset facing the vegetable garden.....

AUSTRALIA DAY TOMMORROW!!

Clean up in the vegy garden

Hi

Pulled weeds amongst all the plants and watered. I actually staked the tomatoes as well. About time! See pictures.

I was away most of this week due to local bush fires I had to attend and fight. Apart of being in the Murrumbateman Rural Fire Service.

Regards

First Radish for 2013

Hey

Picked the first radish this morning. I'm in the patch early in the mornings due to the friggin' hot heat wave we are experiencing at the moment. Yesterday was 40 degrees and today suppose to be about 37 degrees. Hot man!

First picture is of the radish I picked and later gave to Fingers (my bro), and second picture just shows the beds with radish, tomatoes (which desperately need staking), pumpkin, basil and zuchini. You can also see the carrots on the far right near middle.

The climbing beans are fully taking off now. The potatoes are about foot high. Need to bury them either tonight or tommorrow morning.

Also last night there was a  series of thunderstormms that went through the region. Quite an electrical sight! Only 1mm rain.

Yes every morning at about 5:30am I need to water. Water from my own drinking water supply from the house and not the shit and unreliable non-potable community water supply!

Regards

Steve the vegy gardening guy.