Whats happening in the garden this week...
My pomegranate "Wonderful" has its first flowers. You can just see them forming at the top of the left hand branch. This tree is just calling out to be espaliered - perfect formation of branches.
My "Elite" looks like its about to come into flower as well. It's a much bigger tree, but didn't fruit last year, so I'm crossing my fingers!
The two dwarf pomegranates are growing well - no sign of flowers as yet. But they did flower last year, so I have high hopes.
These are the purple congo potatoes - sprouting madly.
I've got a few pots like these, mostly kipflers as I like them a lot. Just wish I had more room to grow potatoes!
We did pick up another 4 styrofoam boxes at the markets this morning (along with a bag of lettuce leaves for the chickens) and some fresh tumeric root (lovely orange colour) that will be planted as well.
My piece of horseradish that I brought from the market is growing well ($60 a kilo - but the piece this is growing from cost me a whopping $1.50)
Seedling that have graduated from the heat mat - but aren't big enough yet to go out and be hardened off. The yellow container at the back has some Curry Tree's that I liberated from a friends garden (heading for the bin as her tree has millions of babies). And some yellow pear tomatoes in the orange container.
The front pots vary, there are loofah's, pumpkins, tomatoes, kale, Rockmelon, Watermelon, zuchini, and well all sorts of things in these ones.
And there are more still on the heated propagating mat.
The two little pots with plastic wrap have alpine strawberry seeds, these have been stratified and I'm trialling them to check germination (which is usually only about 50%). They need light and high humidity to grow. I have some yellow alpine strawberries that I want to get started, but not quite game as yet.
4 pots in this lot (ones without labels) actually have some seeds from a pink lady apple we ate this morning. The seeds had sprouted within the actual apple. So we've potted them up to see if they will continue to grow.
Lets see, about 4 types of lettuce, dwarf beans, more strawberries, Rosella, NZ Spinach, Tree Lucerne, Peanuts, Eggplant... probably a few others as well.
I've taken the pigeon pea trees outside now (all of the seedlings are kept in my laundry until they are deemed suitable for hardening off). Then they move outside into the shade, and eventually are planted. The pigeon peas are maybe 20cm high now, and they were planted only a couple of weeks ago. Photos of those later.
Seedlings are all progressing well. We planted out 6 corn's last week, a pile of tomatoes and dwarf beans, and the pigeon pea trees. Not to mention Rochmelon, and pumpkin plants.
