On 24 April, Kathi (a WWOOFer) and I harvested the last of the summer vegetables – scarlet runner beans and peans I had left for seed, corn for popping, tomatoes (mostly green), chillies, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins – triamble, butternut and oil seed, and silverbeet.
Scarlet runner beans for seed
Aren’t they beautiful?
Peans for seed
Pop corn
Chillies
Grren tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber, chillies
Triamble pumpkin
Oil seed pumpkin
Butternut
Pumpkins for the winter
The stalk of a silverbeet “tree” – it was as tall as me!
Cross-section of silverbeet stalk – I think they are beautiful.
A laundry basket full of silverbeet (1.7kg!) – it was all made into Thai-style coconut and silverbeet soup!
The next step was to pull out all of the spent plants before giving the garden a good weeding.
Before – you can see the silverbeet tree with the gorgeous tall red trunk.
Same angle, after the clean up.
Before from a different position
After from the same position as above.
We had a great 4 hours in the garden. It was a BEAUTIFUL sunny day, like every day is at the moment.