From the parts showing above ground some of my Parisian carrots are growing fat bottoms, and seem ready sooner than the other ones. They seem to look a bit woody though. I think I left them too long maybe. Also they probably will have those hairlike roots because they've probably got a bit dry
Anyone got advice and/or solutions for citrus leaf miners? I am using this right now which doesn't seem to be working at all.
On a more positive note, watermelons are pretty much all ready, right in time for all this ridiculous hot humid weather we get in Queensland.
I discovered today that corn does not need the full kernel to sprout. I had some corn cobs that I stripped the kernels from and threw into the compost bin, and today there were shoots coming up from it everywhere. I am a bit intrigued and have planted it in the garden to see what happens. Mr Woof will be very happy if it continues to grow as he has taken quite the liking to my corn plants, they are apparently very tasty.
My old dog loved to eat corn on the cob, not the actual plant though!
My dog really likes grass, and will want to stop and graze every time we go past a juicy overgrown patch while walking. I don't have any lawn, so this is the only grass he can get at home.
I have a pot of cat grass under the back tap that the furry ones enjoy.
My cherry tomatoes have started ripening. Picking 1-3 a day which is lovely. There's lots of tomatoes on both my plants, I hope I don't end up with an influx of ripe ones all at once! The blueberries are finishing up, but the strawberries are in fine form. The raspberries have finished round one but round two will be happening soon. Still waiting on the boxes to start my vegie garden, have to put my plan on paper.
I am still waiting on any tomatoes to ripen. I keep seeing other people posting about the tomatoes they are picking, but I think I'm still weeks off any ripe ones here. There are a lot of flowers, as well as fruit starting to develop, so when it does get there I think I might be a bit overrun! It will be nice if I am, I can donate excess to a local food cupboard so it won't go to waste. I've also planted a row of mixed cherry tomatoes along the front fence to allow people to pick there own on the way past.
My raspberries have mostly finished round 1, but I keep finding occassional stray berries still. I need to make more bags to protect the fruit before round 2.
What are you protecting your raspberries from? And how? My main pest is spiders who like to make a nest in the new leaves.
Birds primarily. I have netting drawstring bags that I put over each bunch of raspberries once they start to get a bit pink. It's a bit of pain to constantly put the bags on and off, but without them I wouldn't get any raspberries at all.
Why do zucchini have to be so scratchy? I've just been out trimming and tying up my plants and have scratches all over my arms. They are being quite prolific though, I have a load of slices in the dehydrator to grind for flour and took 8 up to the local food cupboard. The button squash have not grown so well, but it looks like I miight have one soon. Better than nothing I guess.
I have also harvested my first beans of the season - only four today, but I suspect I will be swamped soon. The climbing beans are paticularly rampant this year, so once they start producing I will definitely have more than I can handle. The tomatoes are still not ripening, but I have a lot of green fruit and flowers. I guess it just needs to hit the right temperature for them, and then I am going to be overrun with those too.
I am extra excited that I have some capsicum fruits, I've never had much success with those before. The same with the eggplant, they have lots of flowers which will hopefully become fruit, something I've never managed before.
I don't think I'll be getting any loofahs this year - the vine is alive, but has been growing so slowly I don't think it will get big enough to produce anything. Not sure why, the pumpkin nearby is going really strongly (although my plans to grow it onto the top of the shed are not going to work out as the leaves that get that high are being eaten, presumably by possums). Another pumpkin variety in the front yard is now growing onto the roof of the carport, leaving the lattice on the side of the carport for the sweet potatoes which are growing very strongly, and hopefully forming lots of nice tubers under the ground for me.
Surprisingly I have some wombok growing really well in spite of the number of cabbage moths around this year - I'm not sure how long it takes to form the heart, but it is definitely starting to form.
Something has been eating my tomatoes. It had the rudeness to take bites out of several instead of chomping on just one. I suspect it was a rat, as I know they are around the area. Devastated because I was so looking forward to the tomatoes, have been eagerly watching them grow. They had just started to turn red. Another day and I would have picked some! Anyhow, trip to Bunnings and netting has been deployed. Let hope there’s no more plundering tonight.
I suspect rats of eating all of the sunflower seeds and my carrrots last year. Little bugger also stole all of my chilis - I located it's nest and it was stuffed full of them! I've done a lot of clearing of areas they can hide in, so I'm hoping to have less problems with them this year. My tomatoes are still subbornly green at the moment though.
