Spring is always amazing in the garden, the longer, warmer days ensure you get out and weed, plant and reap your gardening rewards.
There is huge delight in picking the very first asparagus spear for the season. There is one bed devoted to asparagus and every year they pop delightfully out of the ground.
We can grow spinach all year long but the Spring spinach is more lush and prevalent than the winter spinach.
This is the first time I have successfully grown Australian organic garlic.
It was planted on the winter solstice (24th June 2015) and will be harvested around the summer solstice on the 1st December 2015. The garlic seems to like the raised heavily composted/mulched soil and it is easy to keep the weeds at bay in a pot like this one.
A cross view of the biggest vegetable bed. Broccoli, cauliflower, endive, lettuce, cabbages, sorrel, spinach and rainbow chard all growing in harmony.
These little beauties are coffee pods. They turn from a bright green to red when they are ripe. This is from my dwarf Arabica tree. Roasted in an open pan, then grinded and put into the cappuccino machine, the flavour is unique and fresh.
One budding peach tree. So pretty and it will be so productive producing at least one hundred peaches. Peach trees are netted when the fruit is nearly at full size to keep the birds and fruit fly away.
Broccoli is also a staple in our garden, it will grow all year long, easily sown from seed. These are the side shoots that appear after the big broccoli head has been picked and they are just as succulent and tender as the broccoli head.
Snow peas grow for a long period, give them a support to climb up and just keep picking snow peas for months. Occasionally fertilise the with a liquid fertiliser to keep the snow peas growing in abundance.
Here are some highlights of my October garden. This is posted as part of the Garden Share Collective, you can see other member's gardens here.
Buon appetito, enjoy, Merryn xx
