Back to Basics Weeks 9 & 10

With the computer out of action, I missed a week posting but I will catch up here.

Sowing or Planting:

• Beans-Ying Yang
• Beetroot, mixed variety from New Gippsland seeds
• Sweetcorn 5 rows
• Pumpkin- Marina di chioggia

Planted out some of the tomato seedlings. There are 25 plants in the garden now with more to plant out.

Harvesting:

• strawberries
• broad beans (they are large now and need to be shelled)
• lettuce
• onions
• wet garlic
• 1 tomato
• mulberries
• herbs
• flowers

Ying Yang bean seeds

Planning:

• Had the kitchen measured up for installing a new kitchen in the (hopefully) not too distant future
• Thinking about The Anyway Project
• Thinking about new ways to house the poultry sitting on eggs as we lost a clutch of eggs due to wet weather.

Working:

• Setting up yards and shedding for the ewes for lambing due to start this week

Community:

• My son finished his initial training as a volunteer fire fighter
• potted up tomato and borage plants for my husband to plant at work
• gave an impromptu tour and talk about our orchard

Tracy