Sunday 7 April 2013

Harvest Monday - 8 April 2013

Autumn has well and truly hit, after the long hot summer we had I'm looking forward to cooler temperatures and a bit more rain. I have had a hectic few weeks, 5 short weeks actually which doesn't sound hectic but due to the nature of my job 5 short weeks make for a very stressful work week. I was also lucky enough to catch the flu and was in bed for most of the Easter long weekend - I did get a lot of reading done which was pretty great. Any-who, on to the harvests.

With the cooler weather I finally have salad greens again! My garden is so open and has sun for over 10hrs in summer so I haven't been able to grow anything in the salad green category since November.
A lovely basket of rocket and Salad bowl lettuce that was taken to a friends house for dinner and shared with yummy Snapper pie.

Thinning's from my carrots and a lone beetroot that popped up.

My girls are happy with the daily bunches of silver beet they get, devouring them faster than I thought possible.

and in exchange for the leafy greens they provide me with beautiful eggs with the brightest orange yolks I have ever seen.

I cut out a few of my basil plants to make way for some more autumn plantings. This lot will go into some pesto for freezing.

And lastly I just wanted to show you a picture of my brassicas under my new Veggienet, above is 1 week ago.
And today - the growth and health of the plants is amazing. My cabbages outside the net are suffering from cabbage whitefly and in turn there larvae which I thought were aphids to begin with, not the cabbages under the net though they are healthy and pest free. One week, I can't believe the growth!

Tahnks again to Daphne of Daphnes Dandelions for hosting the Harvest Monday blog hop. 


5 comments:

  1. That veggie net looks marvelous. I've only just put my brassicas in but I've seen lots of cabbage moths about.

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    1. I have had heaps of eggs on the cabbage I have outside the net, so I'm out squashing them daily. The net is amazing - not only does it protect from the cabbage whites but from the fierce winds we get over Autumn and Winter.

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  2. Harvests look great. You must be really pleased with that veggie net, but what are the orange thingys?

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    1. I love the net, those orange thingys were and expensive and failed attempt to build a bamboo cage, I don't know why I bothered the pvc pipe work fine.

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  3. Wow, it is amazing the difference a week made! The veggie nets look to be a very effective method of protecting the plants without blocking the light. Such lovely eggs. And the veggies too.

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