June was a particularly wet month in Sydney this year, but in amongst the wet days & nights there was a bit gardening accomplished.
I wanted to increase my fruit tree collection. I have a dwarf Kafir lime/lime tree, a Meyer lemon tree and a imperial mandarin tree. All of which the local nocturnal animals have had a go at ,be it eating the leaves or stripping the bark of the stem. I have not had to worry about birds eating my fruit as the possums stripped it all.
Back to what I just purchased, an apple tree, Pink Lady on dwarf stock and a yellow fig plant. Can't ait to watch them grow as they are nothing more than bare branches. I bought the apple as a bare root plant, put it in a 50 litre plastic tub with drainage holes drilled in the base. Staked on either side to stop any movement until a root ball forms. The yellow fig had the same treatment but in a smaller tub. Now I wait & watch.
Red cabbage and coloured chard as the label calls it, but we all know its really silverbeet, not spinach or chard, but silverbeet. That vegetable your mother would boil to death and serve with dinner that was almost grey by the time it was plonked on our plate. Thankfully I hold no ill will against my mum for overcooking veggies I ate as a kid. I will still plant & eat them.
The eggplant plants had a final harvest before getting the 'ol heave ho to make way for the winter/autumn crop. I got about 10kg of eggplant overall. I will grow again in summer I think.
Pak choi planted early in June are coming along nicely, though I do keep picking the smaller leaves for salads. White cabbage was planted at the same as the Pak choi, but Lordy knows that's month off
No comments:
Post a Comment