Fully hydrated and plumped up!
Melbourne’s dams have banked 24 billion litres in the past week... Most of the rivers in the state are under flood warning. Major flooding all over the north east of the state and even us city dwellers have been hit with 30mm on average in just a couple of days.
The patch is booming...fully hydrated, plumped up! Coincidently we have just finished putting in our water tank. A 3000L slimline next to our garage. We have been away for a week in sunny QLD helping a friend do some renovations so I really noticed the change the recent down pour has made and some 'making room' needed to be made, a little mini harvest!
I've recently brought a book on seed saving, I think we should make the effort to be as self sufficient as possible, besides the saving on buying seeds - I am going to eagerly try and get reading so I can work out what I need to do for my flowering spring onions.
I am so thrilled to see the bees today buzzing around all of my broad beans. We are almost ready to get our hive, I am soo excited as this Sunday we finish the second half of our beekeeping course. Equipment we must buy now and register ourselves for a 'swarm'.. It is the start of the season and I just can't wait. I know that Mat will be super excited to get out there in his suit.. anything for a dress up!
In the greenhouse, the potatoes have all sprouted and I am almost at the top of the bag with mulch, finally! It has been a constant job everyday covering up the new shoots - well almost, sometimes every second. Today was a big job as I had left them for 6 days. I hope to have a full bag of yummy taties which will supply us for a couple of months I am hoping. We'll see if the fruit of my labour pays off.
The hump.... updates
It has been dull and bleak all day. I've spent some of my time today snapping pictures to make me feel a little better. The cold weather has given me the hump, a cold and not alot energy to do much other than wonder outside to check on things and potter when I feel I have enough power to.
I have a few pots with Strawberries - Nellie Kelly and Temptation, lucky for me being the only Strawberry eater in the household I say. I probably pic half a dozen a week off them at the moment, which makes for a delightful garden treat while working.
This bed is doing well, I have planted some Heirloom Beets which I have been planting more of when I pull ready ones up. They are a mix of beautiful, reds, orange and white. Also we have some Leeks growing which were put in about 2 months ago, already we have used a couple which shot ahead of the rest with the warmer weather we've had. A couple of Basil plants and Beans which are hanging in there. Some Onions - Barletta, All Seasons Carrots, Celery, Spring Onion, Black Spanish Radish, Broccoli, Garlic and Radicchio - which is a Italian salad green. I have had no invaders in this bed at all, a very pleasing combination.
Over with the Broad Beans I have planted some more Radicchio leaves which have taken off, these were planted by seed when I put the beans in. If you like your bitter greens they are awesome in flavour and nothing seems to bother them.
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