Hot weather everywhere! We are on the back end of a major heat wave. It has been hot/sunny/dry weather for a week and tomorrow it is forecast a top of 40 degrees again. See the pic below from my iphone of the forecast of Murrumbateman afew days ago.
Anyway, the vegy garden has taken a hit. One night and the following morning I did not water the the plants and they started to wilt. I have had to water morning and night otherwise there is trouble. The vegetable garden appreciates the water. See some pics I took on the 14th January 2014:
All seems to be growing well, the radishes didn't really grow, only ten grew. And the shallotts have not done too well. Some have burnt off due to the recent hot heat, so only about ten are left and are currently about an inch high.Tomatoes are doing well, Corn ok, as long as I keep it watered. The cucumbers have been partly attacked by the dogs. And finally the zuchini's are doing well. There is a patch however that I have pulled all the weeds out which is sitting fallow at present. I just need to rejuvenate it and seed it with vegies. I should do that soon.
I have back on the 30th December 2013 collected thousands of brocolli seeds from last years brocolli plants. Last years plants did no good, but I got something out of the crop. Probably 20 packs of seeds. I happily gave some to my father, about 5 packs. How did I harvest the brocolli seeds? Easy! I just collected all the dry pods and rubbed them gently until the small round black seeds fell out. Collected them in a plastic bowl. The last pic shows a pod carefully opened with the seeds still intact within the pod. See pictures below:
Keep cool! StevetheVegyGardener!
