Heat

While we have not been struck with some of the temps of SA or Vic, we have been quite hot here – and the veges have been taking a beating.

So the temps here have been

• Thurs 29 Jan -38
• Fri 30 Jan – 38.2
• Sat 31 Jan – 38.6
• Sun 1 Feb – 35 (and how it felt so much cooler, seriously)
• Mon 2 Feb – 36
• Tues 3 Feb – 36
• Wed 4 Feb – 35
• Thurs 5 Feb – 38.5
• Fri 6 Feb – 39

Expected today Sat 7 – 40 and the same for Sunday – we will see what happens. While our house is insulated and the eaves do their part, the house still heats up. And as this block was a ‘blank’ canvas there are no mature trees, near the house. As you would see in previous posts I am building a deck, this will one day hold the grape vines providing shade in summer. And some of the plants that we have planted around the house will also provide more shade, but that is years away. Anyway two more days and then hopefully a cool change and maybe some rain.

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Harvesting

What have we been harvesting recently? Lots of tomatoes, cherry and Roma in particular and the Amish soon to turn red. We have been eating them and I have been supplying some to people in Sydney and at present we still have 2kg in a basket in the kitchen. We have approx 8 kg of potatoes and we still have 6 plants (Nicola) to harvest (probably next weekend).

The cucumbers and zuchini are coming on strong and we made our first zucchini pickle of summer (and probably not the last) We have been getting a few cobs of corn as well and of course beetroot, radish and lettuce. All the onion has now been pulled up and we did have about 35 (more purple than brown). Definately a lot more onion next time.

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