There is a lot of rain in my neck of the woods. While we don’t have to fight battles with snow as the Mainlanders do, and while frosts are unlikely, the rain has made the backyard sodden. First world problems!
The garden is looking a bit ratty and bare. Much of the work this time of year is underground of course.
This time of year the plants thriving in my vegetable garden are: potatoes, spring onions, onions, carrots, brussel sprouts, bok choi, silverbeet, spinach and a few hardy beans. In the greenhouse, cabbage and leek seedlings are still holding their heads high although growth has dwindled to painfully miniscule amounts. I still have a few tomato plants fruiting indoors too.
In today’s harvest to my delight were carrots. After my mutant-carrot first attempt last year, I was resolved that the soil just wasn’t carrot growing quality and I needed to think outside the square. So I did! The regular orange carrots were grown in potting mix in a pot plant on my deck! The purple gourmet carrots were planted in the vege patch which had been triple-dug with lots of roughage to try and break down the soil. It looks like both worked a treat!
