Sprouting Soon

This will soon be updated to our current gardens and their progression.

Wow it has been a loooong time

Well we are now living in a different place with different garden challenges altogether. As we moved in at the peak of planting time we really haven't had much vegie action. We are seeing some Tomatillos and chiles (no surprises there)!
Also a bumper crop of cherry toms that just came up on there own. A few beans and if we are lucky we might score 3 cucumbers.

I will break this one up into zones as well, have really only just in the last 3-4 weeks been able to get stuck into it and then only halfish. A bit different as they are sort of tropical palmy type with some native bush type things mixed with an absolutely horrible vine that has taken over everything, trees, ground, lilies the lot. The real estate couldn't even find the water meter when we moved in. Not all zones have photos yet.

Zone 1
out the front of the house between and on either side of the drives.

down the carport drive towards front door

along other side near letterbox

this garden sits between the 2 drives

from the road looking towards house

1 side on

other side


Zone 2
Garden at front door




Zone 3
Middle garden in back yard



Zone 4
Not really a garden but want it to be a sort of gardeny room with green house for winter veg





Zone 5
around the back of house for vegies/pots/veranda stuff/shade house etc.....

Nearly the last tomatillos

I picked the rest of the tomas today



and pulled out the plants. I left the plant at the other end of garden because I couldnt bring myself to pull it out as good as it was looking. Have the bulbs to plant now for flowers and more so hope to get into that over the next week or 2....
Now off to find recipes for tomatillos that arent chile sauce (already made lot of that for freezer with last batch).

Back at it

Well, I started some tidying up this weekend and got the greenhouse out to overwinter some plants and try to grow some more. I have had some tomato seedlings in window for a while... I did get some of them planted today and the greenhouse is up and going thanks to B. Still picking tomatillos. Tomatillos everywhere...

in the freezer



on the counter



on the vine




I think I can make enough green chile sauce to get me through the winter.
I will hopefully spend some time here after the school holidays are over and I get my bulbs in ground!

Winding Down

Now I know that this has not been kept up as well as it could have been but we cannot always sit at the computer to garden now can we.

I think the summer vegie season is drawing to a close. Still a lot of Tomatillos to harvest. I had my first ever toma harvest today.. Woo Hoo! And ther are still at least 150 more of these babies on the vine!



Cukes sorta gave out to the extra moisture and cocked it. Zukes may still yet have another spurt left as they were showing signs of recovery over the last week or two.

Have bulbs on order(great furndraiser for the school)for more flowering areas. I will look into winter veg over thenext few weeks as well. I will need to put some energy into the greenhouse for over wintering some chile plants as well. The lawn itself has become a bit more green from the extensive rain.


I am actually quite excited as the winter work is what will make next summer a success. After a late start to the season having moved in long after the season began I think we accomplished more than we could have expected.
So bring on the winter!!!!



I have cleared Zone 5
and it will soon be a great little spot to sit and enjoy life.

Still growing

Tomatillos and some of the crops. I am a bit worried that the cucumbers and Zuchini plants arent liking all this rain(really need it though). I will have to keep an eye on soil drainage perhaps.... their leaves are all yellowy and sort of white mildewish. I certainly hope not to lose them but the tomatillos are still going strong. These photos are actually a couple of weeks old. Nearly ready to harvest the beets as well.

Quite Contrary

Okay I will put in a few stages of garden photos here as it has really come a long way since the early days (at least the vegies as that has up to this point been my main focus. I will start with the rest this coming week I hope).

I soaked the ground with round-up to get rid of wild grass that had taken over. Then Maddocked the whole thing(here Boris did quit a bit of work my big strong man).





first in was the beans (thats them against the fence). They were planted on Nov 11 2006.






On the 17th of Dec the rest went in- corn ,zuchinni, cucumbers, tomatillos. I left the tomatoes and some tomatillos in pots as well... Chiles arent cooperating they may be a while yet unfortunately(possibly next years crop).






Going okay by the 6th of January.






By the 28th though......



And again todays photos show much growth in less than a week





Boris has leveled out the bore pump, and since this photo has put the roof up where it goes and the next step will be a cover on the front. We have been eating cukes and Zukes now.




that's a 750g beer not a normal!