Monday, 27 September 2010

Mud Brick Palace Back To Basics - Week 40, Year 2





Sowing seed or Planting -
Sowing

  • 5 Tomato Roma
  • 5 Tomato San Marzarno
  • 5 Tomato Napoli Paste
  • 5 Tomoto Deutscher Fleiss
  • 5 Tomato Siberian
  • 5 Tomato Break o Day
  • 5 Tomato Snow White
  • 5 Tomato Thai Pink Egg
  • 5 Tomato Amish Paste
  • 5 Tomato Rouge De Marmande
  • 5 Tomato Yellow Roma
  • 5 Eggplant Florida Market
  • 5 Eggplant Rosa Bianca
  • 5 Eggplant Black Beauty
  • 2 Cucumber Armenian
  • 2 Cucumber True Lemon
  • 2 Zucchini Black Beauty
  • 2 Zucchini Round
  • 2 Zucchini Romanesque
  • 2 Zucchini Golden Arch Crookneck
  • 2 Zucchini Mideast
  • 2 Pumpkin Turkish Turban
Potting Up
  • All the C.S.A. Curcubits, they out grew the cell trays so are going into newpaper pots to ensure they have enough room to move
  • The rest of the C.S.A. Seedlings are in the process of being moved into the cell trays.
Observing
  • Giving up on the Red Maraconi Capsicum, it looks like a bad batch of seed as all the Yellow Banana have germinated without issue
  • The turnip patch is coming along quite well
  • Looking at how they are going it is becoming clear that cut leaf lettuce want to be planted out much earlier than I previously ever expected, they are doing well this year
Harvesting


  • 200g radishes
  • 50g loose leaf lettuce

Maintenance 


  • Weeding
  • Pulled out all the brassicas, sprouts and sugar loaf cabbage, that were bolting to seed

Planning for The Future
 -

  • Weekly work plan
  • Menu Plan 
  • Got realistic and cut the amount of markets I was attempting from 2 down to 1
  • Bought new lids for preserving 

Working for the Future -

  • Caring for the seeds planted out for C.S.A. orders
  • Made Blood Orange Cordial
Building Community -
  • Attended BEC Meeting
  • Attended R.O.G.A Meeting (Ranges Organic Growers Association)

Learn a new Skill -



  • Created recipe for Blood Orange Cordial


Participant Posts

Caitlyn Nicholas - Sunday 26th September

Balancing the school holiday family life with prime planting time in her region means right now Cait is a busy, busy lady.  Thankfully her thoughts that she might have poisoned an inlaw seem totally unfounded at this point but there are some southern gardeners that are pining for the time for planting that envy her abilty to plant out already.. it's all swings and roundabouts but at this end of the year "IT'S JUST NOT FAIR" *foot stomp*  :-D


Linda at Remote Treechanger - Friday 24th September
Linda's school holiday fun has included lots of trips backward and forward to the regional center in her area.  I don't envy her the dental appointments and the mechanic trips but boy does the op shopping sound fun,


Tracy @ Sunny Corner Farm - Tuesday 21st September
Lots of seed finding dirt out at Tracy's place.  The spring energy also seems to have hit culminating in an extremely impressive list of planting out of perennial trees and bushes this week.  To balance that all out their next holiday is being booked which is a feat in itself when you own livestock.

3 comments:

dixiebelle said...

You're a busy bee as usual! Love the biodiversity you have... pity about the red macaroni capsicum, sounds unusual, maybe they'll surprise you yet!?! Good luck with the markets...

belinda said...

Thanks Dixiebelle,

Although I am not going to do anything to adversely affect their chances the capsicum are going to be more than surprising if they germinate now, at least 8 weeks after they were sown.

Best wishes for your next project.
Kind Regards
Belinda

Less is More said...

Hi good day ! nice post you have . It's very nice , I have plan to setting up my garden can you give me an idea or steps on how to make it beautiful. i have heard some garden accessories such as garden spinner , wind chimes , wind spinners and many more . I want to try this things in my garden but i don't know how to get the right accessories . I hope you can help me . thank you .

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