Our 1 Acre – One Veggie Patch at a Time

Been a while

June 9th, 2008 AndrewD

I spent two weeks in Sydney, you see I normally return to Yass on the Thursday nite, but there were a few bike things I had to do last weekend for one the of the groups I am still a member of (BikeSydney – http://bikesydney.org) and I wanted to make it to at least one Sydney Swans game at the SCG (turned out to be the last Sunday game for the year at the SCG). Lee-Ann came down for the weekend and the inlaws stayed with the kids.

I’ll just say I drank far to much beer for two weeks. I need a couple of weeks detox.

Anyway all has now returned to normal and I returned on the Thursday nite train to Goulburn, Lee-Ann and the kids met me at the station and we had some chinese for dinner.

So whats happened, there are now 37 garlic – woohoo, now as long as they last till harvest. Some of the onions of sprouted. Broad beans seems to be going on OK. I have never grown broad beans before so not sure what to expect. Is 8 plants enough? I have planted a second lot of 5 plants (approx 4 weeks behind).

The other news being that we ate our first home grown broccoli and how fantastic it was, I waited until 30 minutes before we needed it so It was the freshest possible, and just steamed it with some butter. It was a side to a casserole I made.

The cauliflower is also coming up nicely (you can see it hidden behind the leaves) – I say we will be eating some in a week. We are doing grub patrol, as we have some green grubs on the plants. And every time we see one it gets the under the boot treatment.

The First of the Broccoli

May 17th, 2008 AndrewD

I came home on Thursday nite and Lee-Ann told me the first of my Broccoli is beginning to form a head, Always excited with the first one.

Also 21 garlic have now appeared.

And the cold is beginning to set in (the past few days), while the morning temperatures have been 8 or less for the past few days, it is really because the days have been overcast. Good thing we have the gas heater now – so lets see how many bottles of gas we chew thru.

What’s in the Garden

May 12th, 2008 AndrewD

Some Broad Beans

Broad Beans

Some Broccoli

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Cauliflower

And Garlic

Sprouting Garlic

Last Week (24th Feb) – The Vege Patch #2

March 1st, 2008 AndrewD

So last week I planted in veg Patch number 2 (The 1st of the rock log vege patches)

  • Cauliflower – All Year Rounder
  • Red Cabbage – Ruby Ball F1
  • Broad Beans – Coles Early Dwarf
  • Broccoli – Emperor F1

I will sneak in there some more parsley as well.