One month ago we planted out our seedlings that we raised into their new home – our vegetable patch. I have to report that we have had no bandicoot invasions in the vegetable patch to this day. Our fencing and raised beds have kept the little buggers out. Though our herb garden is not looking as good but I will get to that later. Above you can see our transplanted bean seedlings on the left and on the right one month on the beans now have started flowering and two beans have made it to our mouths.
The plants have grown like crazy. I have watered them every second day, though now that they are flowering and fruit starting to form I am now watering daily. We have staked out our tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplants.
You can take a look at our plants one month ago HERE.
I have trained my tomatoes to grow higher before they start fruiting. A couple of weeks ago I picked off all the flowers about to open, I have removed the bottom leaves on the main stalk. This way there are no leaves and fruit hanging on the ground. To tie the tomatoes to the stakes I have used stockings, which were kindly donated by Mel (thanks). I learnt many years ago that if you use stockings on the tomatoes it does not bruise them so much. It also allows a little give to the plants.
Can’t wait for my tomato flowers to turn into edible fruit.
Cucumbers climbing above and they are now flowering like the zucchini’s below.
Everything is looking healthy and I have recently bought some pyrethrum spray for the bugs to keep it organic as possible. I don’t want to loose my harvest to catapillars or flies.
Our herb garden is slowly, slowly coming along. Thanks to the bandicoots majority of our herbs have been dug up at least once or more. From our 12 parsley only four managed to survive. I have also lost two thyme plants, a punnet of chives and a punnet of spring onions. This weekend I plan to add some rosemary to the bed as well.
We have also added in a chili plant to help provide shade once it grows and a gooseberry bush to also provide shade for the Greek basil I bought.
I look forward to sharing with you next month our first harvest from Huthwaite Farm.
Do you have a veggie patch, what are you growing? Or are you simply growing herbs on your window sill?
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It’s coming along nicely. Things seem to have grown so much since I last saw your garden. My herb/vegetable garden is coming along – slowly! I don’t get bandicoots and so far, no bugs. I hope it continues xx
Glad to hear that your herbs are going well Charlie. In the back yard they don’t seem to be eaten by any wild animals like they do here.
Looks fantastic – you have so much room. I’m growing tonnes of vege & herbs on my balcony – by “heaps” I mean we can longer get out there to hang our laundry. It’s great fun – it’s all on my blog under “balcony garden” tag if you want to see what it looks lik.
Will stop by now.
Your vegies are looking great! We’ve put a few things in ours (strawberries, tomatoes and herbs), mostly doing well, but they did get some hail damage a few weeks ago….and something ate our one and only strawberry! We are not sure who the culprit is, but we keep thinking we’ll have to put some mesh over them…just hasn’t happened yet!
Birds love strawberries. The flick of red just catches their eyes – cheeky buggers. You have had some hail all ready this year, man we are starved of rain at the moment, we have had two spurts of rain and both around 14mm each since July.
Great looking garden there! We’re into fall, so most of our stuff in our garden is finished for the season. But we’re still getting tons of Swiss chard (basically a 3-season plant) and herbs.
I love Swiss chard. Nothing is better than a plant lasts a long time in the ground.