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08 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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01 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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29 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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25 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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09 Nov 2008Stinky B.O.B Invasion 5 5 Lemon tree and Big sharehouse backyard gardenI went out to have a look at the big lemon tree the other day, to check the p...Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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02 Nov 2008Lush & fierce: a brief veggie garden tour 6 6 Nunnery Vegetable gardenIt’s not all growing evenly & perfectly (the cherry tomatoes are la...Cloudy 18°C / 64°F
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29 Oct 2008Evacuations 1 17 Big sharehouse backyard gardenI hereby apologize for any awful pun that may come across in the title of thi...Sunny 20°C / 68°F
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29 Oct 2008Climbing, gripping, ever-upwards... the race begins... 2 Purple King pole beans in greens bed and Nunnery Vegetable gardenOh I love it when pole beans finally get to the point of grabbing onto their ...Sunny 20°C / 68°F
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29 Oct 2008Vigorous & huge 1 3 Squash 'Yellow Crookneck' and Nunnery Vegetable gardenI lost all the plant markers for my squash patch, so have resigned myself to ...Sunny 20°C / 68°F
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27 Oct 2008Precocious enormous baby! 1 Mortgage Lifter and Nunnery Vegetable gardenYes, I am beginning to see what people mean when they talk about the prodigio...Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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20 Oct 2008I succumb. 3 2 Strawberry "Delight" and Nunnery Vegetable gardenOh strawberries, you are my Achilles heel. I know it’s too late to buyi...Overcast 19°C / 66°F
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14 Oct 2008Salad harvest 3 Nunnery Vegetable gardenMy lettuce is looking great! I harvested a big bowl full of leaves, plus some...Cloudy 15°C / 59°F
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13 Oct 2008Survived! Tomato 'Cherokee Purple' and Nunnery Vegetable gardenCame back from my week away and found that three of the seedlings had survive...Overcast 17°C / 63°F
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06 Oct 2008Tomato carnage 1 1 Tomato 'Black Cherry' and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThere were huge winds last night, and I came out this morning to find the see...Sunny 17°C / 63°F
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04 Oct 2008Volunteer Veggies Ahoy! 2 Nunnery Vegetable gardenI have tomato volunteers everywhere. They are strong, persistent little bugge...Cloudy 16°C / 61°F
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04 Oct 2008Compost update 5 7 Big sharehouse backyard gardenThe big news is that the previously skanky compost bin, the one that was here...Cloudy 16°C / 61°F
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01 Oct 2008Settling in Capsicum "Sweet Mix" and Nunnery Vegetable gardenI keep thinking they haven’t grown much, then I remember how tiny they ...Sunny 27°C / 81°F
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01 Oct 2008Settling in 1 Long purple eggplant and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThe long purple eggplant seedlings have put out a few more leaves & start...Sunny 27°C / 81°F
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01 Oct 2008Spreading over the edges of the pot 4 Creeping carpet thyme and Nunnery Herb Garden gardenThe creeping thyme is looking lovely, dripping over the edges of it’s c...Sunny 28°C / 82°F
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01 Oct 2008Nodules! It's got nodules! 3 4 Broad Bean and Nunnery Vegetable gardenWell, will you look at those! I didn’t put any inoculant on these broad...Sunny 28°C / 82°F
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30 Sep 2008Growing huge Pretty lemon thyme and Nunnery Herb Garden gardenThis has at least doubled, if not tripled in size since I put it into it̵...Sunny 22°C / 72°F
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24 Sep 2008Lettuce eat 2 3 Nunnery Vegetable gardenOh. I am so sorry for that title. Bad food puns are so awful! But I can’...Sunny 14°C / 57°F
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20 Sep 2008Sown Purple King pole beans in greens bed and Nunnery Vegetable gardenSunny 27°C / 81°F
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20 Sep 2008Photo update 1 Lettuce "Purple Oak Leaf" and Nunnery Vegetable gardenLettuce seedlings are looking good. It’s interesting to me how clear th...Overcast 18°C / 64°F
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20 Sep 2008Ornamentals.Or, the neglected starving children of my garden family 2 3 Big sharehouse backyard gardenMy poor ornamentals must know that compared to the edible plants (which I lav...Overcast 18°C / 64°F
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20 Sep 2008Third raised bed built Nunnery Vegetable gardenI spent the day building & filling this, the third raised bed along the f...Overcast 19°C / 66°F
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20 Sep 2008Tire stacks as mini-raised-beds 1I finished constructing my third raised bed today, which means the entire sun...Sunny 19°C / 66°F
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18 Sep 2008Sending off the orphans 3 Basil mixed colours and Nunnery Herb Garden gardenWe had a visitor last night who happened to pop by at the same time as I was ...Sunny 25°C / 77°F
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15 Sep 2008Lots to live up to 1 Thai chili and Nunnery Vegetable gardenHere’s the journal for my last thai chili plant, the one that was stole...Sunny 18°C / 64°F
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14 Sep 2008Getting taller 6 Grocery store spring onions and Nunnery Vegetable gardenGetting nice and tall, although a little dry & crispy on the tips. I̵...Overcast 17°C / 63°F
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14 Sep 2008Growth check 1 Kipfler potatoes and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThese little guys are powering along, a lovely bushy row of leaves. It’...Overcast 17°C / 63°F
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11 Sep 2008Seed-shopping 8 7 Nunnery Vegetable gardenI went a little bit mad on the seed websites today. Ordered a kilo of purple ...Sunny 20°C / 68°F
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07 Sep 2008Flowers flowers everywhere but not a bean to eat! 1 7 Broad Bean and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThese stupid broad beans have been flowering for MONTHS! AND STILL NO BEANS! ...Overcast 17°C / 63°F
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07 Sep 2008Progress shot Green Zebra and Nunnery Vegetable gardenNot looking too bad, thrown off many leaves since I transplanted it.Overcast 17°C / 63°F
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07 Sep 2008Progress shot Tigerella and Nunnery Vegetable gardenComing along nicely. Planted much deeper than ‘Mortgage Lifter’ w...Overcast 17°C / 63°F
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07 Sep 2008Progress shot Black Russian tomato and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThere are actually three black russian seedlings that I separated out from th...Overcast 17°C / 63°F
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07 Sep 2008Growing strong 1 Mortgage Lifter and Nunnery Vegetable gardenThis guy is surging along! I didn’t plant this one as deep as the other...Overcast 17°C / 63°F
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07 Sep 2008Holes chewed; culprit found; Dipel sprayed Swiss Chard 'Bright Lights' and Nunnery Vegetable gardenI’ve been wondering what’s been munching on the leaves off my sil...Overcast 17°C / 63°F
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30 Aug 2008Growing well, developing thorns Little Lisbon Lemon Tree and Big sharehouse backyard gardenThis plant is still just a little twig, straight up and down, but it’s ...Sunny 16°C / 61°F
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30 Aug 2008Sad & leggy-looking. Sage revival techniques, anyone? 7 Sage and Nunnery Herb Garden gardenOh dear. My three pots of sage have survived the winter but they’re not...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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