Yesterday I put some seeds in coir pellets - three pellets each with 2 or 3 seeds. Here's hoping they do well. I have the following in:
Asparagus
3 colour Capsicum
Tomato - Mortgage Lifter variety
Mini Cauliflower
Broccoli
Purple Coneflower, and
Red Russian Kale
This will be first time I have tried to grow Kale, Cauliflower and Asparagus. My previous attempts at Broccoli were not very successful - they bolted to seed waaaay too quickly. I have had reasonable success with Tomatoes though this variety is new to me. last year I managed to get enough toms to make a few jars of sauce with. Last years Capsicums grew and fruited, but bugs got the fruits before I did.
I haven't tried Coneflower (below) before either. How hard can they be?
They are currently sitting in my mini portable greenhouse/box/thingy in the laundry.
Today I finished setting up my earth boxes. I added in the fill pipe which is a piece of 16mm clear poly tubeing cut to size. I made sure I cut the end that goes into the aggi pipe at an angle. Then I put a couple of layers tulle over the aggi pipe in an attempt to stop dirt getting into it. Tokk them both outside and into their final resting place. I had help filling them up with herb/vege mix. Our 11 week old pup thought I was making a dig patch just for him. Nearly 100 litres of mix and they are full. To finish them off I out a think layer of sugar cane mulch. I will get around to planting the seeds soon.
These are going to have carrots, sugar snap peas and beans.
I still have to get some sort of trellis to put behind them for the peas and beans to grow up.
Next of the agenda is to replace the fencing around the rose bushes. I have some wire edging panels that just push into the ground - quite easy to do. I do however need to bend them around the corners of the beds as the bed is not made to fit these panels. They are the same as the ones I have used on the other vege bed next to the path to the clothesline.
Should pull the weeds too - check moon calendar for best time to do this. Knowing my luck that won't be for another 3 weeks. In this bed are 4 roses - a white, a pink, a red that I planted and a red that self seeded - and a Nashi pear. The pear had fruit last year but it all fell off, or was knocked off by something. Not too sure which. That was probably a good thing as it will enable the tree to grow bigger and better roots.
Have you done any planting this weekend?
