Autumn harvest & weeding

It’s a great year for our feijoa bushes – we are getting plenty of them and they are big, juicy and very tasty. The fig tree has also been producing well. However, i have to pick these before they are ripe in order to beat the birds to the, – fortunately, they do continue to ripen after picking. I’m still getting tomatoes and have a great selection of salad greens that are all self-sown – pictured below are sorrel, rocket, mizuna and parsley.

Tomatoes, feijoas, figs and salad greens

The garden sorely needs weeding. it is overgrown with creeping weeds this year. One of those weeds is sorrel – originally planted as a salad green, however it is now taking over a couple of the garden beds.

This afternoon, I took advantage of the sunshine and headed out with the weeding bucket. I decided to do a path and adjoining bed area each time I head out. Today I completed the first path, the bed beside it and a bit of the next path. Boy, it’s hard weeding in the strawberry patch – viney weeds and viney plants!

Weeding the path – halfway there!
Path weeding completed!
The strawberry patch with potatoes and weeds (potatoes are supposed to be toward the back of the picture, not in with the strawberries…)
Strawberries almost finished – there are still weeds (rocket, mizuna, potatoes and viney things) at the top left of the photo.

I did transplant some self-seeded rocket, mizuna and lettuce plants from this area into an area that was previously occupied by lettuces. These had gone to seed, hence the self-seeded lettuces, so I removed them.