Hello!
Back to the garden and kitchen to work on whatever needs to be done.
Poor Pip back to the vet today for another injection and an added antibiotic.
He handled it better than me. According to the vet, there was much less drama – only one little growl.
I really didn’t like to ask what happened last time!!
Its a worry when your fur babies aren’t as healthy as they should be!
Still – he came home and napped with Jeff and is now snugged up on my lap as I am typing. Seems I am forgiven for putting him in the carry case and driving him to the lady with the needle.
Yesterday I put in a small plot of lettuce.
They weren’t growing so fast in the pot… not surprising as it was just cheap potting mix with no mushroom compost. Time to get a few into the ground
I didn’t do much apart from weed, dig and add compost to a couple of short strips.
The outside tomatoes are going well… I finally got around to tying a lot of them up. There was a lot of ‘sprawl’
I even got my first outside tomatoes with colour to pick!
(These are the heirloom beefsteak which I grew from seed)
The rambling duck yard pumpkins seem to have managed a couple of actual pumpkins!! About time!
Yesterday I got a lovely lot of hothouse tomatoes and more cucumber… and a whole heap of apple cucumber that went a bit mad while I was gone for two days!
Oh – and a hilariously small passionfruit. I think I should cut it open and try it tomorrow!
I am worried that its hard finding potatoes. I am really hoping my crop is not all leaves with not much underground. I do know its a while before proper harvest, but I am rather attached to potatoes…
This lot were just beautiful – steamed with butter, salt & pepper.
Today I picked what plums I could reach by myself. A friend is picking up this lot. I have no room left for more in the freezer. (I ordered a side of beef so I REALLY need to clear at least one freezer!)
I even had some kitchen time – made some blueberry ice cream and cooked up a pot of onion, garlic, tomato, herbs, zucchini & capsicum and popped them in the freezer. A start of storing my winter collection of spaghetti sauce and sauce for casseroles.
Well… time for the rest of this household to get to bed!
Hope your day was great too!
Cheers
Wait.. I think I missed something in one of your posts. What happened with Pip that he needs extra medicine?
Pip has had some ongoing digestive issues that we have been trying to manage. Trying to get the balance of meds – he is a little high strung being Siamese so its also working out what part of it is him stressing (like when we go away)(Which normally isn’t often apart from all of last year!!!)
Oh goodness. Hopefully now that you’re both back and around after your travels, his digestive issues will improve greatly 🙂 Thanks for answering!
Hi Lisa, I’m going to be trying potatoes in my garden for the first time. Do you have any tips that you can pass along? Thank you!
Excellent! Potatoes are awesome to have in the garden. And I reckon pretty easy. There are so many ways but this is what I do: Soil prep – I like to weed, dig up, then dig through a generous amount of blood & bone. Of course other compost would work to enrich the soil.
I usually buy seed potatoes and cut in half making sure there is an eye on each piece. Drop each piece into a hole ummmm 10cm deep? Enough to properly cover and about 30cm spacing.
Cover & water! I don’t usually get around to mulching because the foliage covers the ground so completely.
Occasionally I get around to feeding again with some kelp juice – some liquid fert. is easiest.
Mostly they look after themselves. Some people mound them up to get more potatoes but I have never really gotten around to that properly. You can start digging carefully to get new potatoes at the three month mark – without digging up plant. 5 months is about the time for full harvest or when they have died off.
Good luck! You’ll love digging for them!! (not to mention eating new potatoes!)
Thank you Lisa. This is very helpful!