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• 14 Sep 2009
  Broccoli broccoli and Backyard garden
  I have taken away the first planting, it only yielded a handful of stalks. Maybe it was planted out of its own season.
  Overcast 18°C / 64°F
• 11 Sep 2009
  Sunflower Russian Skyscraper 1 Sunflower Skyscraper Sprouting and Seedling garden
  The seeds have germinated, about a 75% success rate. The seed was 2 years old. The seedlings are about 2cm tall at the moment and living in the glasshouse.
  Sunny 12°C / 54°F
• 11 Sep 2009
  Strawberry 2 srawberry runners Flowering and backyard garden
  The strawberries are flowering and developing fruit. I still have about 16 plants grown from runners that need to be planted in the strawberry bed.
  Sunny 12°C / 54°F
• 11 Sep 2009
  Sugar Snap Peas Sugarsnap peas Flowering and Container garden
  Sunny 12°C / 54°F
• 11 Sep 2009
  Genovese Basil from saved seed 1 Basil Genovese Sprouting and backyard garden
  I harvested some seed from a dried basil plant in a pot on my back steps in late winter. I sowed a punnet of seeds and kept it on a suuny windowsill until some germinated. The punnet showed uneven germination-one side had germinated , the rest did not. I thought this may have been due to uneven t...
  Sunny 12°C / 54°F
• 11 Sep 2009
  Tomato Speckled Roman Tomato Speckled Roman Sprouting and Seedling garden
  The seeds have germinated and seedlings are about 25mm tall at this stage.
  Sunny 10°C / 50°F
• 27 Aug 2009
  Broad Beans Broad beans and Fence side garden garden
  A good strike rate of beans, they are about 20cms high, looking good.
  16°C / 61°F
• 17 Aug 2009
  Baby Beans broadbeans and backyard garden
  The broadbean plants have a few baby beans developing at last.There are a few honey bees in the garden but they seem to prefer the borage and calendula flowers. The bumble bees like the broadbean flowers but I’ve only seen a few so far. There are lots of bean flowers but only a small fracti...
  Sunny 14°C / 57°F
• 25 Jul 2009
  Sprouting Broccoli 25/7/09 Broccoli Harvesting and backyard garden
  
  15°C / 59°F
• 25 Jul 2009
  Carrot Patch July 09 1 carrots Harvesting and backyard garden
  
  15°C / 59°F
• 25 Jul 2009
  BroadBeans July 09 broadbeans Flowering, backyard garden , and broadbeans Harvesting
  The broadbeans are now being harvested and we enjoyed 6 last week. There are more coming on and I am looking foward to a long season of eating more.They were yummy.
  15°C / 59°F
• 25 Jul 2009
  My biggest cauliflower 25/7/09 2 cauliflower White cloud Harvesting and backyard garden
  
  15°C / 59°F
• 25 Jul 2009
  Garlic patch 25/7/09 garlic Sprouting and backyard garden
  
  15°C / 59°F
• 01 Jul 2009
  Rain, Rain and more Rain 2 2 backyard garden
  So-it’s been raining for 4 days now. We’ve had 156mm which is over 6 inches. I think that’s probably enough for the time being. Luckily our garden doesn’t flood. The plants look quite happy and I can see some growth. There are a couple of little garlic shoots starting to p...
  Rainy 11°C / 52°F
• 23 Jun 2009
  That darn Cat 2 backyard garden
  Our huge cat, Oscar, accompanied me on a stroll down the garden this afternoon, as I went to pick some veges for dinner. We went our separate ways and I was contemplating vegetables when I heard a commotion and saw Oscar running out from under the frost cloth that is covering a few of our sub- tr...
  Partly Sunny 11°C / 52°F