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lucky had no luck with tomatoes last year – but this year ! ! – what a change.
the chest high tomato bushes are coming out in trusses.
i think i counted nine plants – each different – and each loaded with fruit.
the biggest individual tom is the oxheart but the stripey one – tigrella (?) is loaded and probably the the most interesting.

the cucumbers are well advanced, the beans have reached the top of the trellis and some spuds are ready for harvest.
parsley, more beans, the famous purple cauli, silver beet, chives and the already harvested garlic – it all adds up to a great feast of the homegrown produce.

looks great lucky – thanks for the tour.

i forgot to mention the knee high eggplant and the new no dig bed full of zuchini .

there’s more too – a bed is prepared for corn and lucky has a spot allocated for the spinach i brought.
its so good to see the backyard as a farm.

looks great lucky – thanks for the tour.
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Thanks Pepe:) I was so pleased to be able to show you all that is happening in my vegie patch.

pepe said:

i forgot to mention the knee high eggplant and the new no dig bed full of zuchini .

there’s more too – a bed is prepared for corn and lucky has a spot allocated for the spinach i brought.
its so good to see the backyard as a farm.

Yep Pepe has given me some spinach seedlings for my kitchen ….. this rain has come at a great time…. I’ll pop them out tomorrow…… actually I check my moon chart first and see when the leafy greens can be planted out for best results.

a quick walk thru’ a friends garden leaves you with images that form into ideas later.

lucky’s got a lot of seed collection going on. parsley and asparagus are going to seed – special little bags are being used to keep tomato fruit as a pure strain.
meanwhile seedlings are being raised in the hothouse – beans and more tomatoes. so the rotation of crops – some finishing and some being planted makes her garden a busy, dynamic place with a complicated overlapping of beds.

there is also the unusual – a bubby bush pumpkin with lots of fruit forming early. its hard to know if this unfamiliar plant is overloaded with fruit or not.

lovely narrative there pepe, thanks :)

pepe said:

a quick walk thru’ a friends garden leaves you with images that form into ideas later.

lucky’s got a lot of seed collection going on. parsley and asparagus are going to seed – special little bags are being used to keep tomato fruit as a pure strain.
meanwhile seedlings are being raised in the hothouse – beans and more tomatoes. so the rotation of crops – some finishing and some being planted makes her garden a busy, dynamic place with a complicated overlapping of beds.

there is also the unusual – a bubby bush pumpkin with lots of fruit forming early. its hard to know if this unfamiliar plant is overloaded with fruit or not.

Thanks Pepe, your praise means a lot to me.

lucky’s only got a standard (fifth of an acre) block, and only the backyard is productive, so you might think i’ve come to the end of describing her garden. you would be wrong.

elf (the OH) has been nibbling on celery for the past month. the celery is gone to seed and being fed to the wabbits but the foraging aspect of backyards is underestimated. lucky keeps radishes and hardboiled eggs in the fridge for snacks. carrots can be pulled, rinsed and nibbled. corn, peas, fresh lettuce and spinach leaves, beans and cucumbers can all be picked fresh and eaten as snacks in the garden. at some stage these have all been grown in lucky’s garden.

lucky is also trying spud growing. it looks like it might be a good year for the humble potato and lucky is in with a chance. she has four 2 metre long rows growing and nearing maturity. spuds are a lucky dip (hehe). you can’t tell by the tops what lies under. one day soon the fork will go in and lift the white tubers.

Gee think I could hire you as my PA reporter…blushes

lucky has left the spring onions to flower – and big flowers they are too. they are quite attractive and the bees think so too.
less conventionally L1 is trying to regenerate her broad beans over summer. she has cut the plants back to the root base because the root nodules contain nitrogen and are quite normally left in to fertilise the next crop. blow me down the roots are shooting again !

half the backyard belongs to her famous lucky ducks and chooks. she’s a cook, a knitter, a carer and a good hostess. it just goes to show how productive a house and garden can be.

and …. did i see rhubarb growing?

there was an article on rhubarb in warm earth mag.

Some great produce coming from your yard Lucky :D

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Happy Potter said:

Some great produce coming from your yard Lucky :D

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Thanks HP:)

burp pardon me…… tea was ………………… mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Oh that looks scrummy Lucky. What a great harvest from your garden!