January's Harvest and potting bench

Well January was an incredibly good month! Unearthed potatoes....finished the nectarines...got stuck in strawberries and blueberries! yummy! How good is it to have a proper summer...not like last year!

So here we are...the official numbers for jan

351g Strawberries
120g Nectarines
8g Raspberry
609g Blueberries!
852g Potatoes
139g Lettuce (more than that but adam doesnt weigh the lettuce he takes on his sandwiches)
107g Fig
36g Silverbeet
10g Kale
96g Eggplant (soo yummy fried!)
9g Spring Onion
187g Pepino (Small melon type fruit)
165g Corn
29g Beans
17g Capsicum
5.57KG Tomatoes!

With a grand total of

8.305KG!!!!

Things to Plant Now

So to help the gardeners out there i am going to start helping people know when is the right time to plant seeds! So for february in melbourne (and other temperate places) you should plant:

• Beans
• Beetroot
• Broccoli
• Cabbage
• Carrot
• Celery
• Leek
• Lettuce
• Potatoes (get them in quick)
• Radish
• Shallots
• Silverbeet
• Spring onion
• Swede
• Corn
• Zuccini

Autumn and Winter catch alot of gardners by surprise :) so they are under prepared and end up having not much of anything. Right now is when you need to be growing seedlings for all your winter crops like leek, carrots, cabbage and broccoli

Potting Bench

So for a while now ive been asking adam to build me a potting bench :) we got rid of our outdoor setting (was to big for the space) and so all my gardening stuff had been sitting on the ground! We got everything we needed from bunnings and started

Building

Building

Staining

Stained

Ready for use

This was when adam lost the drill bit...lol...we ended up getting it out with a magnet attatched to a loooong stake!

And some pics from the garden:

Australian Lime in flower

Teepee...ready for beans and snowpeas

Raspberries

Watermelon

Rainbow Chard (silverbeet)

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