As all Christchurch residents know, Labour weekend is the time to begin planting your vegetable garden. Here are a few shots of our spring vege garden. It looks very different now so I will do an update post shortly.
Corn and beans planted along the back, self-seeded tomatoes in pots and in the upper right, cos lettuce, spring onions and silverbeet in the bottom of photo.
Garlic, beans at the back, red leaf lettuce, spring onions and you can just see the nashi pear tree.
Kris watering the snow peas. In the same bed there is beetroot and carrots and in the front bed we have strawberries.
Behind Kris is a cherry tree which hasn’t produced any cherries yet. The apricot which is further to the right has not produced anything either. The nashi pear did amazingly last year and has a huge crop this year. I hope we will be able to enjoy some before we move!
We have also planted a yellow zucchini, two pumpkins (a variety which produces tiny pumpkins and one which produces huge ones – I thought these would be fun). We’ve got purple potatoes coming up, other pumpkins self-seeded, the rhubarb is going for it, the raspberries have done ok but are afflicted by some sort of caterpillar which lives inside the berries! Not good. We’ve also got cucumbers, a telegraph and lebanese. We harvested our first cucumber the other day.
The peas have now finished and we’ve pulled them out. We have harvested half of the carrots and beets and will harvest the rest prior to our move. We enjoyed eating the beet tops as well at the beets (waste not, want not).
The strawb’s don’t last long – as soon as Isabella spots red she goes for them! Never mind if they are still mostly white, she will eat them regardless.
