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09 Dec 2008Harvest totals for the week ending 7 December 08 4 1 Nunnery Vegetable gardenThis week: Lebanese Zucchinis: 1 (Running harvest total: 7) Greenskin Zucchin...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008Watching strawberries develop Strawberry "Supreme" Fruiting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenI’m enjoying watching these strawberries develop. I imagine they will b...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008Harvested: 1 strawberry. Running tally: 3 strawberies Strawberries Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThis is the first ripe strawberry I’ve seen in AGES, since mid-spring a...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008First cucumber harvested! Running tally: 1 cucumber Lebanese Cucumber Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThis is the first cucumber I have ever grown. I could have let it grow bigger...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008Harvest for the week ending 7 December '08: 1 zucchini, harvest tally: 7 zucchinis Lebanese Zucchini Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThese quieted down plenty this week, but now have plenty more female flowers ...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008Harvest for the week ending 7 December '08: 1 zucchini, harvest tally: 2 zucchinis Zucchini Greenskin Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenI don’t get all that excited by the greenskins. They look like grocery-...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008Harvest for week end 7 December 08- 5 lemons. Harvest tally, 5 lemons. 6 6 Lemon tree Harvesting and Big sharehouse backyard gardenMostly I’m picking lemons up as they drop off the tree, since I’m...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008Harvest for the week ending 7 December '08: 2 squash, running total: 8 squash Squash 'Yellow Crookneck' Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenQuite a few of the fruit on these plants don’t seem to be fertilizing- ...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008Harvest for week ending 7 December: 4 squash, running total: 9 squash Squash 'Golden Scallopini' Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenI love these squashes. They’re so useful to have around to slice up sma...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008Harvest for the week ending 7 December '08: 3 handfuls, Running total: 6.5 handfuls Bush bean "Windsor Long Pod" Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable garden3 big, fat handfuls of Windsor Long Pod beans this week, although some of the...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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09 Dec 2008Harvest for the week ending 7 December '08: 3 handfuls. Running total 4.5 handfuls Purple King pole beans in greens bed Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThree big handfuls of Purple King beans this week, for a running total of 4.5...Overcast 23°C / 73°F
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02 Dec 2008War on BOBs continues 1 3 Lemon tree and Big sharehouse backyard gardenThis infestation of Bronze Orange Bugs (stink bugs/citrus BOBs) is serious. T...Overcast 22°C / 72°F
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30 Nov 2008Harvest for the week ending 30 November '08 3 3 Nunnery Vegetable gardenI know I’ve already made individual harvest records but I’d like ...Overcast 21°C / 70°F
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30 Nov 20081/2 a handful. Hmm, not such an awesome measurement is it? Harvest total: 1.5 handfuls Purple King pole beans in greens bed Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenOvercast 21°C / 70°F
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30 Nov 2008Last turnip. Total harvest: 4 1 Turnip 'Early Purple' Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThis turnip didn’t look like it was ever going to get any fatter, so I ...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F
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30 Nov 2008A squash! Harvest tally: 5 Squash 'Golden Scallopini' Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenWas a bit surprised to find this one waiting for me, bright yellow & perf...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F
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30 Nov 2008First greenskin zucchini! Harvest tally: 1 Zucchini Greenskin Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenMy housemates will be so relieved to see this one, a ‘normal’ loo...Cloudy 21°C / 70°F
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30 Nov 2008Harvested 3 fruit, harvest tally: 6 Lebanese Zucchini Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThis probably seems very close to my previous harvest journal but that was qu...Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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30 Nov 2008Harvested 3 fruit Yellow Capsicum Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThese three fruit all set & grew at about the same time, and they all see...Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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29 Nov 2008Harvest tally: 3 so far 1 3 Squash 'Yellow Crookneck' Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable garden3 Crookneck squashes so far this season. There seems to be a bit of a non-pol...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008Harvest tally: 2 so far 1 Lebanese Zucchini Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable garden2 of these so far, and 3 very very close to ready on the vine (was going to p...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008Harvest tally: 3 so far 3 Aloe Harvesting and Big sharehouse backyard garden3 Crookneck squashes so far this season. There seems to be a bit of a non-pol...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008Planted out 1 Tomato 'Lemon Drop' Planting Out and Nunnery Vegetable gardenPlanted this into a big, 40cm plastic pot filled with, sadly, really cheap po...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008FIRST CUCUMBER! Lebanese Cucumber Fruiting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenAm beyond excited to have found my first EVER cucumber developing on the vine...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008Finally potted up the poor rootbound thing Tomato 'Rouge de Marmande' Planting Out and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThis poor little plant. I potted it up once since I brought it home, but have...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008First & second harvests 1 Squash 'Golden Scallopini' Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThere was one ready for me when I got home from the hospital, and three more ...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008Harvesting Purple King pole beans in greens bed Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenI picked two beans off these vines when I first got back from the hospital, b...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008Growing well in a big pot 1 Blackberry Transplanted and Big sharehouse backyard gardenThis plant was just a wee little twig when I received it a few months ago, wi...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 20084 big handfuls of beans so far Bush bean "Windsor Long Pod" Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenSince my first big handful of beans, there’s been one every 3 days or s...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008Broccoli harvest! 1 Calabrese 'Green Sprouting' Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenI harvested this right before I went into hospital: my first ever broccoli ha...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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29 Nov 2008Harvest 2 Casper eggplant Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable garden2nd Casper eggplant harvested. Again I harvested this quite small, but it see...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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27 Nov 2008Loads of flowers 1 Strawberry "Supreme" Flowering and Nunnery Vegetable gardenNot quite as crowd-pleasing as “Delight”, this strawberry is stil...Overcast 24°C / 75°F
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27 Nov 2008Pretty in pink Strawberry "Delight" Flowering and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThese strawberries have been in flower for just over a week now and they̵...Overcast 24°C / 75°F
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26 Nov 2008Gardener ignores medical advice, reunites with garden. 4 8 Nunnery Vegetable gardenI’ve been in hospital for a few days for a surgical operation, and prep...Overcast 19°C / 66°F
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23 Nov 2008Purchased 2 2 Tomato 'Lemon Drop' Purchased and Nunnery Vegetable gardenI was all done with tomatoes, I was absolutely no-way-no-how in the market fo...
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17 Nov 2008Fruit set 1 Black Russian tomato Fruiting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenBoth Black Russian tomatoes have small green fruit on them now, about 5 per p...Cloudy 19°C / 66°F
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12 Nov 2008First harvest! 3 2 Lebanese Zucchini Harvesting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenBehold, my first zucchini of the year! Picked this morning, used a kitchen kn...Cloudy 25°C / 77°F
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11 Nov 2008Sprouting 2 2 Nicola potatoes Sprouting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenAll the potatoes are up. Also, the cat likes to sleep on the potato bed. I ta...Overcast 22°C / 72°F
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11 Nov 2008Sprouting Purple Congo potato Sprouting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenAll the potatoes are up in the two potato squares!Overcast 22°C / 72°F
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11 Nov 2008Showing leaves Sapphire potato Sprouting and Nunnery Vegetable gardenAll the potatoes are up! I love the distinct blue hue of the leaves of these ...Cloudy 22°C / 72°F
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