Another EXTREMELY late post. I’ll adjust the date later; this session was 11 December 2010.
Another month, and another wonderful session with Christina. As usual she started out by going around the garden and seeing that was happening and what was growing. The night before we’d had some wind really rip through the garden, so one of the things she helped us do was tie up the peas that had completely fallen off their teepees in Big Blue back up.
We discussed what would happen in Big Yellow. Our broadbeans still weren’t ready for harvesting, so she took the zucchini we were going to plant back with her and we discussed what would go into the bed next time. After the broadbeans finish we’ll put in corn, some cucumbers training up, and another zucchini or two. CORN! 🙂 She also advised us to start pruning the tops of the broadbean plants off to just above where it was fruiting so the plants would put energy into the broadbeans instead of producing more and ever more flowers.
Before doing some planting we had a carrot tasting session. The Lubyanas are probably the favourite, but all had a different and lovely flavour. The Royal Chantenays were really carroty. The White Belgians seem to be a little hit and miss; they have a lovely spicy flavour, but some are really woody and some seem OK. We cleared out Asian greens from the end of Big Blue and planted some more root veggies, a heritage beetroot mix, some White Belgian carrots and some Nantaise carrots.
Carrot Taste Test: Royal Chantenay, Red Cored, and Lubyana (sorry - White Belgian not in the photo)
Christina helped us clear out the last of the tat soi, mizuna and bok choi from the patch under the swings – one of each plant was kept and tied up for seeds. We’ll transplant lettuce seedlings from the ‘nursery’ section to fill it all back in.
Christina checked out and helped tie up our tomatoes. She also noticed one of our Kipfler potatoes wasn’t doing well, so it’s lovely offspring were harvested:
Another great session!