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| Today's seeds... note the daggy gardeners cold morning footwear. |
Now that bed space has been liberated by the cauliflowers finishing, I need to get things in.
Today I'm planting:
- Radish - Scarlet Globe. Is it possible to have summer without radish? And when it is such a quick cropper it makes you feel that you are some damn fabulous gardener.
- Rocket - Pronto. The name says it all really. When in need for a quick crop, plant rocket, pronto!
- Basil - Sweet Genovese. I need home-made pesto. Yes, it's a need... Better get a few punnets going for planting into larger pots later. I started some earlier in the season but it has still been quite cold here in the mornings and I suspect the weather has not really suited them so far.
- Beans - Kentucky Wonder. The lovely Nina sent me Kentucky Wonder seeds months ago now. I got excited and put them all in. They were growing beautifully and then, a frost wiped them out - all of them. Kindly Nina send me another stash! I'd better make these ones work, hopefully the frosts are over now.
- Beetroot - Crimson Globe. Beetroot salad with feta and pomegranate molasses, pickled beets, roasted beets... quick get the seeds in the ground.
- Fennel - Florence. Tough cookies with such lovely foliage making the bed so pretty. These are going in today too.
What are you putting in?
I am contributing this to L@500m2's series on Succession Planting. Hopefully that will mean that Tuesdays will always jog me to see what needs raising.
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Gee, I really need to write more neatly!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to give fennel a go (if I can find some room). I didn't think I liked it but I had an amazing meal at a local winery on the weekend which had shaved fennel under the scallops and it was delicious.
My Kentuckys went in this weekend along with a heap of seedlings from the Bunnings special. At last the weather has been warm enough to plant out the tomatoes, capsicum and eggplant. Lots more went in, too. I love this time of year!
PS - I'm pleased to say that the limoncello is steeping. Thanks for the heads-up. :)
I'm about to rip out or have already ripped out a lot of the things you are planting now. I'm going to try a very late planting of snow peas that I've started indoors and some beets also. Next up is lettuce since all my red leaf lettuces are bolting now.
ReplyDeleteFantastic planning! I on the other had had a shocker - fancy missing my own series on the second week - post will be up shortly. The basil I planted turned out to be some perennial type - not sweet basil at all, so you've reminded me to plant more.
ReplyDeleteJust remembered that Nina sent me some of the Kentucky Wonder beans - must dig them out and plant them. I'm running out of room, must make some for them as well as some radishes etc.
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