With a bit of sun to inspire, I inspected the garden to observe goings on. The garden is in a real transition phase. Some of the summer things are still powering on, some of the winter crops have gone in. Unfortunately I am not picking very much at all - bad planning.
The snow peas ARE ok. They are all up, every single one - they didn't rot in the soil like I had thought.
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| broccoli with self seeded sunflower |
The broccoli is going well but getting the first of the cabbage moth visits. I will need to check under the leaves each day and wipe of their eggs from now on and watch out for the first of the green grubs. I find this surveillance works well enough for me. I might have ragged edges to my plants but I always have lots of veg.
Some sunflowers have self seeded - strange time of year for them to to that. I am leaving them in for the moment to see what happens.
The eggplant seem to have a second wind and are flowering furiously. Same with my brown berry tomatoes. They look like they think its October or November. They are green and upright and setting flowers - will they set fruit I wonder?
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| a lime crop after all |
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| the eggplant just keeps coming |
I AM going to have a lime crop.
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| praying mantis eating a house fly |
The giant praying mantis was spotted eating a house fly - go praying matis!
I use the get rid of the eggs technique for cabbage whites and I too find it works well. I reckon the eggplants should set fruit, shouldn't they? I think I got fruit into May last year.
ReplyDeleteGreat minds think alike? Well, if you got eggplants into May then I will persist with mine. Thanks for the encouragement. That of course means that you might all have to lok at more eggplant pictures you realise!
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