In the Garden – March

During the first week of each month I like to take a look at my vegetable garden and decide what needs to be done. The photo above was taken on the 1st February and the photo below was taken today.

As you can see there has been quite a lot of growth.

• The cucumbers on the trellis on the right have not done so well in the heat but there is still a bit of green vine and some small cucumbers so I’ll leave it in there for now. I want to get in there and pull out all the dying leaves though.
• Some of the lettuce is just about ready to pick so I want to plant some more lettuce seeds in the gaps.
• The radish have just about all been picked so I will plant some more radish seeds and also some carrot seeds.
• It’s also time to get leeks into the garden, so I will either get some seeds or buy some seedlings.
• The zucchini is doing really well and I have heaps and heaps of little zuc’s that should be ready to pick in the next week or so.
• The eggplant is still doing well and there are quite a few little eggplants growing on there so nothing needs to be done with them. A few of the plants need to be staked so I’ll do that.
• Behind the eggplant are the tomatoes and basil. The tomatoes are getting quite tall now and I need to stake them too. There is no sign of fruit yet but hopefully soon
• And the whole garden needs a good dose of Seasol and a bit of weeding.
• I bought a hose weeks ago to make into a drip irrigation system, but I haven’t put the holes in it yet, so I need to do that and set it up in the garden.

So that’s the plan for the next week. I’m hoping now that summer is over we will have some tamer weather and hopefully some more rain.

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