11 November I cut back the comfrey and spread it around the asparagus, beans and peas. The rest of it went into the compost bin.
Main comfrey bed
A good load of comfrey for the garden!
As I was wandering around the garden, I noticed that the strawberry patch was hosting a great crop of weeds, so I removed these. I also noticed that the weeds around the fence of the vegetable garden were getting close to seeding, so I cut down all of these. Everything looks very tidy now! It was also time to uncover the cape gooseberry.
Cape gooseberry uncovered
14 November Ben and I planted seedlings in the tunnel houses – Baxter’s early bush cherry tomato, basil, capsicums and chilli. We also peastrawed the tunnel house containing the capsicum/chillis. The next projects were to weed the areas where the pumpkins would be planted and to plant the green apple cucumber seedling.
Capsicum and chilli plants
After planting in the tunnel house
Cherry tomatoes and basil in the front row
15 November we planted out 7 butternut seedlings in 4 groups, 3 hopi grey winter pumpkins and 2 Zambezi gem pumpkins.
All remaining bare patches were peastrawed. This used all of the old batch of pea straw.
Bamboo poles were put up for the peans, I have yet to erect poles for the Gila Indian beans.