Spring is here! Although I don’t think that the grass has really stopped growing over winter this year. Other than the times around the snowfalls, it just hasn’t been a cold winter. One way I can tell it’s spring is that the almond trees are flowering.
I sowed many seeds on 2 Sept. This year the majority of the seeds were from Koanga Gardens. I will attempt to save more of my own seeds this autumn – beans, peas, tomatoes etc – all the easy crops.
Here is the list of seeds that I sowed (KG = from Koanga Gardens, KS = from Kings Seeds, M = my seed, succ = will sow successively):
Chili peppers (Sprinkled in a 1m diameter tub, they will stay in the glass house)
– Cayenne blend (KS).
Pumpkin/Squash (3 seeds of each in 3 x 20cm diameter pots ie 9 of each in total)
– Triamble (an interesting 3-lobed pumpkin, KG)
– Austrian oil seed (has hulless seeds which are good for roasting, KS)
– Waltham butternut (KS)
Brassicas (A single row of each in a seed tray)
– Broccoli Raab spring rapini (KS)
– Broccoli de Cicco (KG)
– Cabbage Dalmatian (KG)
– Cabbage Chi hi li (KG)
– Cabbage Henry’s Chinese (KG)
Zucchini (1 seed of each in 3 x 10cm diameter pots ie 3 of each in total)
– Cocozelle (KS, blue pots)
– Black beauty (KS, red pots)
Cucumber (1 seed in 3 x 10cm diameter pots ie 3 seeds in total)
– Green apple (KG, green pots)
Corn (A single row of each in a seed tray; succ.)
– Sweet early gem (KG, sweet)
– Golden bantam (KG, sweet)
– Black Navajo (KG, sweet/flour)
– Mini black popping (KG, popping)
Allium (A single scattered row of each in a seed tray)
– Leek Lyon (KG)
– Onion Stuttgart long keeper (KS)
– Onion Pukekohe long keeper (KG)
– Onion Borettana (KS)
Tomato (1 seed in each hole of a 6 hole, hard black plastic 3x3x8cm container ie 6 of each in total)
– Henry’s beefsteak (KG)
– Low acid mix (KG, varieties are J Walsh, Red oxheart, Black Roma)
– Henry’s dwarf bush cherry (KG, no stake)
– Southern bush (KG, no stake)
– Island Bay (KG)
– Alma (KG)
Chard (8 seeds of each in 15x20x5cm soft, white plastic container)
– Rainbow (KG)
– Lettuce beet (KG)
Broad beans (1 seed in each hole of a 4 hole, hard black plastic 5x3x8cm container ie 4 of each in total)
– Dwarf early green (M)
– Dwarf early green (KS)
– Superaguadulce (M)
– Superaguadulce (KS)
Peas (1 seed in each hole of a 6 hole, hard black plastic 3x3x8cm container ie 6 of each in total; succ)
– Henry’s salad (KG, shellout)
– Unwins king size (KG, shellout)
– Henry’s sugar snap (KG, eat entire pod)
– Snow pea Goliath (KS, eat entire pod)
Seeds: tomato, pea, broad bean, chard, brassica, corn, allium
Yesterday (4 Sept) I planted Jersey Benne potatoes (7 rows of 6) and weeded and cut back the asparagus bed. While I was there I picked 200g of fresh asparagus!
Potato bed
Asparagus!
