Hey-ho neighbourinos! Well the garden is looking luscious as ever! Tomato plants are now about thigh high and I’m letting them go to flower so hopefully we’ll have some tomatoes growing sometime soon. How long does it take from flower to picking? They have flower buds now – so we’ll see how long it is before I’m picking my first crop. The only issue is that while I had stakes in ready for the plants, I hadnt tied them up and last night was WILDLY windy and one plant ended up bent over backwards and under the back fence! I’ve now put in extra stakes and tied them down with old stockings (who needed those black sexy thigh high stockings anyway? Sorry hubby!).
The zuchini plants have also got flowers on them! I’m not sure how big they’re supposed to be before they fruit so I’m just letting them go. I picked off the flower heads on the capsicum a weekend or so ago. The plant hasnt really grown much but did get many more leaves so next lot of flowers and I’ll let them go too.
I’ve been so lucky with this garden. I was talking to the lady next door, Melissa, who was at a neighbourhood BBQ last night and she said she has been trying to grow plants in her garden next door with no luck. Her lettuce and other veggies, as well as flowers have been repeatedly under the attack of grasshoppers. Luckily we seem to have escaped them over this side so far – knock wood we wont have a problem. Shes been using pesticides and other remedies to try and get rid of them too – I havent used one mili-litre of anything on ours – totally organic man – so maybe that might be the ticket? Or maybe I have something growing that they dont like? Who knows? Other things she planted have gotten root rot with all the wet weather and died. I wonder if thats why my peas havent taken off like I thought they would? Perhaps so.
We also headed over to the farmers markets again. Those baby button squash were FANTASTIC; sadly the lady wasnt there this time. The kids werent amused that the bunny lady wasnt either but a local sausage on bread with sauce did the trick and they were quite happy. They also got a kick out of “paying” the jazz buskers to play a tune.
Sadly no pics today as my camera batteries are really flat – will recharge and hopefully get a picture tomorrow
Enjoy your weekend!!!!
