winter planting

another day in the beautiful autumn sunshine, gypsy snuck out and hung around the garden all day whilst we planted, made herself very comfortable inside a bag used for horse manure

From seedling, broccoli and cauliflower, beetroot, silverbeet, capsicum, papapya in side gardens, sweet potato in the chook pen and passionfruit on the chook pen wire and back fence... the passionfruit never really came up from seed, and perhaps I recycled the soil into the back mound, or perhaps we threw a passionfruit down there but either way there are at least 10 big healthy passionfruit vines coming up. Will take some to sydney and newcastle- if any one wants one let us know!

From seed caneldela, marigold, spinach, broad bean, lettuce, carrot, beetroot, perennial rocket, squash...

the perennial rocket is doing well in the mound and side garden- lots of little yellow flowers and enough to cut it off in bunches for lunch, the thai basil is also vigorous enough to also cut in bunches and we had basil sauce on pasta last night

the pumpkin has a few small fruits, but in the past these have just dropped off, and none of the rockmelon or watermelon has really given decent fruit, only one watermelon from several vines, I wonder if there is something lacking for vines - why are they dropping the fruit or not producing any at all?

we also put up wire on all the areas that are growing vines- bit worried this might get too hot in summer, but plan to let the winter vines die and leave them on there and then grow the summer vines over the top. the luffa is good, picked four fruit and have them drying underneath the pot belly

dug out the ditch on the 2nd mound again and down the back a bit, put lots of lucerne round the new seedlings and built up the edges .

a satisfying day