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10kgs of Apricots!

Scarecrow's Garden Log: 10:01:2010:

We have finally found a use for those noisy Galahs
that wake us up at 5am!

This is one of many
who are weeding the Community Garden block,
they dig up the bulbs and eat them!

Temperatures this week:
Lowest Min 6.5C
Lowest Max 31.7C
Highest Max 40.2C
No Recorded Rainfall

What's the weather been like in the garden?

Temps have been up around 35C and above most of the week. That makes very early morning starts a necessity if you want to get anything done outside!

Propagation:
Potting up/on:

Amaranth - Leaf
Lettuce Gold Rush
Basil sweet Genovese
Parcel
Into punnets as they germinated so they didn't get too crowded and dry out in the heat.

Cuttings/Division:

Lamb's Ears were divided and potted up coz they were growing over the pathway and getting in Doc's way.

What's around the Garden This week:
Lot's of extra shade during the 40C (104F) heat see this post

The new chookies have made their way through
one bale of straw, so this has been raked up
and spread around the Dog Pen Garden beds
and in the Almond area!

The chicks are growing up fast and have stopped chirping and now make 'real chook' noises! We have started to let them out into the orchard when it's in shade and they busily dig and scratch around and pick up any fallen fruit.

Sunflowers are, as always, a welcome sight in the garden.
I didn't plant any this year
so I'm just enjoying the volunteers, as are the bees!

Just on 10kgs of Apricots have all been picked and dried,
so we took the net off and left the rest to the Wattlebirds.
They cleared them up in a couple of days!

We re-used the netting over the Plum tree
next to the Apricot!

Weekly Harvest Tally:

Doesn't include Greens fed to the chooks on a daily basis or herbs picked for use in the kitchen for cooking or tea making.

Carrots Chantenay Red-cored***103g
Cucumber Marketmore***178g
Apricots***5030g
Figs***304g

Eggs:

10 from the Farmyard Ferals
0 from the Ginger Girls
0 from Blackie

To see how the various Garden areas fit on our half acre block check out the newest Map of our place HERE

The New Year Begins

Scarecrow's Garden Log: 2:01:2010:

The Greens in the Wicking Boxes grew well in the heat
so hopefully we will have some fresh greens soon!

Temperatures this week:
Lowest Min 11.3C
Lowest Max 24C
Highest Max 38C
No Recorded Rainfall

What's the weather been like in the garden?

As it warmed up this week we had 3 days of over 36 degrees but the cool change on Friday night brought relief but no rain.

Extra shade was attached to the western sides of growing beds as well as over any newly planted or emerging seedlings.

The heat sparked a growth spurt in the Comfrey
which seems to enjoy life under the 75% shadecloth cover.
You can see the sun scorch on the older leaves.

Rockmelons also put on growth
and the Gourd seedlings took off,
safe with their little protectors in place.

Propagation:
Seeds:

Cosmos 'Seashell Mix' Cosmos bipinnatus
Beetroot Golden Detroit Beta vulgaris
Mangelwurzel Beta vulgaris
These went into punnets and pots in the propagation area under shadecloth.

Potting up:
Into punnets:

Lettuce Gold Rush
Celtuce
Basil Lettuce Leaf
Basil sweet Genovese
Kale Morton's Mix
Kale Squire

Put under 75% shadecloth until settled,
then moved to 50% shade.

Potted on:

Strawberry Guava
(seedlings from the home saved seed!)

Basil Lettuce Leaf

Malabar Spinach -
green and red stemmed

Free from the Garden:

Dug up seedling Catmint Nepeta mussinii plants that were popping up in the Strawberry tank bed.
Collected Tagasaste seeds from the popping pods!
Borage is sprouting in the Dog Pen Beds, I use these seedlings as mulch around the tomato plants there.
Borage was listed on Food'n'Stuff's Dynamic Accumulators post recently!
The list suggests it is an accumulator of Sulphur and Potassium.

New in the Garden This week:

This years Trees For Life plantings
sprout new seedlings with each cool change!

The Old Man Saltbush
I'm growing on for the Community Garden
has taken off after the addition
of some slow release native plant food!

Rockmelons are volunteering in Bed 1
in the Main Vegetable Garden.

Cucumbers (Marketmore) nearly ready!

Weekly Harvest Tally:

Doesn't include Greens fed to the chooks on a daily basis or herbs picked for use in the kitchen for cooking or tea making.

Carrot***119g
Parsnip***120g
Apricots***4980g all dried.

Eggs

10 from the Farmyard Ferals
0 from the Ginger Girls
1 from Blackie

Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum in bloom

in the Strawberry Tank Bed.

To see the various Garden areas on our half acre block check out the newest "Map of our place" HERE

2009 Statistics

Weather 2009

The total rainfall for 2009 was 346mm our yearly average is 364.6mm so we were below average again.

Jan 0.4mm.....Av. is 22.6mm
Feb 0mm.....Av. is 17.8mm
Mar 13mm.....Av is 21.7mm
Apr 31mm......Av. is 22mm
May 11.5mm.....Av. is 31.1mm
Jun 53mm......Av. is 33.9mm
Jul 35mm.....Av is 33.6mm
Aug 19.6mm.....Av is 37mm
Sept 65.5mm.....Av is 33.1mm
Oct 58mm.....Av is 29mm
Nov 55mm.....Av is 25.7mm
Dec 4mm.....Av. is 22.7mm

Highest maximum temperature was 44C on the 7th February.
Lowest minimum temperature was -3.3C on the 24th July.

The minimum temperature of -0.4C on the 29th of May was the first official frost of the winter.
The minimum temperature of -0.5C on the 15th of September was the last official frost of the winter.

Harvest 2009 total was 288.24kgs

Jan 09 harvest was 28.7kgs
Feb 09 harvest was 40kgs
Mar 09 harvest was 28.4kgs
Apr 09 harvest was 19.75kgs
May 09 harvest was 87.36kgs
Jun 09 harvest was 30.29kgs
Jul 09 harvest was 14.5kgs
Aug 09 harvest was 12.94kgs
Sept 09 harvest was 6.2kgs
Oct 09 harvest was 9.9kgs
Nov 09 harvest was 2.2kgs
Dec 09 harvest was 8kgs

Happy New Year everybody
from Doc and Scarecrow

In 2010 may your be harvests be fruitful
and the weather just right
for your growing projects!

Last Garden Log for 2009

Scarecrow's Log: 27:12:2009:

The Cherries have been eaten, dried
and frozen for future use!

Temperatures this week:
Lowest Min 8C
Lowest Max 26.2C
Highest Max 39C
0.5mm Rain

What's happening in the garden?

Feverfew Tanacetum parthenium is flowering. It's sad that it apparently repels bees. So I don't plant it where I want the bees to help with pollination!

Some of Doc's Gourds have been attacked by slaters! On a recent Gardening Australia Josh Byrne said to try putting pots (with the bottoms cut out) over the seedlings to protect them. So I did!

It's working so far.

Read more hints from Josh in this Fact Sheet.

A few of the Blue Lake Beans
are climbing up the mesh cover on Bed 3
and are starting to flower!

Propagation:
Seeds:

Cucumber Green Gem
Tomato Burnley Bounty
These went into small pots
Gourds Dancing/Spinning (to replace the ones the slaters ate)
Beans Purple King top up planting in Bed 1
Zucchini Black (replacements for seedlings the grasshoppers ate!)
Beans Soy Centaur
Sweetcorn Anasazi
These went into the Wicking beds in the Dog Pen Garden

Planting out:

Alpine Strawberries Fragaria vesca
Warrigal Greens Tetragonia tetragonoides
Jerusalem Artichokes Helianthus tuberosus
Nectarine tree (seedling)
These went into the Almond area which has been tidied and mulched.
Spinach - Ceylon/Malabar Basella rubra on the sides of the beds in the Main Veg Garden to allow it to climb up the arches
Yacon Polymnia sonchifolia planted in the Kitchen Garden
Silverbeet 'Rainbow Chard' and Lettuce 'Freckles' seedlings into topped up Wicking boxes on one of the propagation benches.

Cuttings:
Dusty Miller while I was hacking (ooops I mean pruning) it back!

New in the Garden This week:

Not in my garden but we had a surprise in the morning of Christmas Eve with a phone call to say the council would meet us at the Community Garden site to start the Earthworks! When Doc and I arrived we found a couple of visitors already there. Two ponies had escaped from the next paddock...just as well we haven't planted anything yet!

Mr Council Worker made a great start on levelling out and shaping the block!
Thank you!

While there we found a few critters in/on the soil nearby!
Please click on the photos to see
the spider (one of the many) and mantis we found.

The new chicks are growing fast
and still love their greens!

Weekly Harvest Tally:

Doesn't include Greens fed to the chooks on a daily basis or herbs picked for use in the kitchen for cooking or tea making.

Carrot Chantenay Red-cored***129g
Garlic***63g
Parsnips Hollow Crown***164g
Apricot***400g
Cherries***5118g
Fig***76g
Peach***757g

Plus a yummy mix of greens for soups/stirfries/salads...Lebanese Watercress, Chives, Parsley, Sea Parsley.

Eggs:

9 from the Farmyard Ferals
3 from the Ginger Girls
2 from Blackie

To see how the various Garden areas fit on our half acre block check out the newest Map of our place HERE

More Sunflowers Soon!

Scarecrow's Log: 20:12:2009:

Baby Sunflowers about to bloom!

Temperatures this week:
Lowest Min 4.4C
Lowest Max 23.6C
Highest Max 38.5C
No Recorded Rainfall

What's happening in the garden?

Yet more shade covers...
this one over the Bushfood Bed

and this over the Grosse Lisse
Tomato Tower in the Kitchen Garden

Since their tree blew over in the front garden
the Apostlebirds have taken to perching
on the main electricity wire to the house.

Propagation:
Seeds:

Amaranth - Leaf Amaranthus gangeticus
Amaranth - Grain Amaranthus hypochondriacus
Basil - Lettuce Leaf Ocimum basilicum
Basil Sweet - Genovese Ocimum basilicum 'Genovese'
Celtuce - Lactuca sativa
Chicory - Coffee Stetorium intybus magdeburg
Cosmos - Sunny Yellow and mixed Cosmos bipinnatus
Evening Primrose Oenothera biennis
Kale - 'Squire' Brassica oleracea Acephala Group
Kale - Moretons Mix Brassica oleracea Acephala Group
Lettuce - Goldrush Lactuca sativa
Mitsuba - Japanese wild parsley- Cryptotaenia japonica
Nasturtiums Tropaeolum majus
Parcel Apium graveolens var. Secalinum
Silverbeet - 'Rainbow Chard' - Beta vulgaris
Sunflower - Sun King Helianthus annuus

Potting up:
Plants were tidied and potted on for the market stall.

Planting out:
Tomatoes Yellow Baby Pear in the Dog Pen Garden

5 X Ginger plants in the first wicking bed I ever made (that was back in 2007 but it's has been re-vamped along the way) in the Dog Pen Garden. It's nice and shady there so they should appreciate that.

New in the Garden This week:
First flowers on the Eggplants (Casper) and Capsicums (Hungarian Yellow Wax Sweet )

First fruit set on the Roma Tomatoes

and Baby Blue Pumpkins.

That Jalapeno Chilli in the Dog Pen Garden
has re-sprouted for it's third year.

Weekly Harvest Tally:

Doesn't include Greens fed to the chooks on a daily basis or herbs picked for use in the kitchen for cooking or tea making.

Beetroot Heirloom Mix***234g
Carrot Chantenay Red-cored***122g
Onion Red***90g
Apricots***150g To test for ripeness!

Plus a yummy mix of greens for soups/stirfries/salads...Chives, Lebanese Watercress, Onions Red Stemmed Welsh Bunching, Parsley, Shallots, Sea Parsley, Warrigal Greens (blanched).

Eggs

8 from the Farmyard Ferals
10 from the Ginger Girls
1 from Blackie

To see how the various Garden areas fit on our half acre block check out the newest Map of our place. Here.

Fruit, Shade and Straw.

Scarecrow's Log: 13:12:2009:

Temperatures this week:
Lowest Min 3.3C
Lowest Max 19C
Highest Max 32.5C
3.5mm Rain

What's happening in the garden?

Apricots are nearly ripe...time to net the tree!

Another shade structure
to cover the Wicking Beds in the Dog Pen
- 50% white shade cloth!

Tidied the Potato Wicking Bed in the Almond Area. There are small new potatoes in there so I've mounded up some composty soil from the bottom of the chooks pergola and they are ready for a heavy mulch!

Propagation:
Seeds:
Mangelwurzel in Bed 3

Potting up:

Lettuce Freckles, Rouge de Hiver
Parsley
Lovage
Valerian
Basil
Dyers Chamomile

Planting out:

Sweet Potato
Zucchini Black
Watermelon Sugar Baby
Into the Dog Pen Beds

Sweet Potatoes in the Dog Pen Garden Bed

New in the Garden This week:

We found a source of good straw. We bought 10 bales from a retired Organic Market Gardener. 2 bales are being scratched through by the chooks ready for mulching the garden, free of seed.

Weekly Harvest Tally:

Doesn't include Greens fed to the chooks on a daily basis or herbs picked for use in the kitchen for cooking or tea making.

Carrot Chantenay Red-cored***100g

Plus a yummy mix of greens for soups/stirfries/salads...Chives, Lebanese Watercress, Onions Red Stemmed Welsh Bunching, Parsley, Shallots, Sea Parsley, Warrigal Greens (blanched).

Eggs