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Posted by spatzbear SA Aust (My Page) on Thu, Jan 19, 06 at 17:50
| Finally it's time to start walking through the garden with a basket in my hands. What are you harvesting at the moment?
This morning's haul:
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And before anybody can comment on the size of the Zucchini, it's a new (to me) variety (Costata Romanesco). It grows to quite a size before it even starts flowering. This is the size after it stopped flowering. Both weigh a little over 500g!
The green cucumbers are Early Fortune, and the yellow small ones are German Pickling. I'm really happy with the cucumbers this year. The first year for me that I'm picking quite a bit of them. :) |
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| Just a note, the zucchinis weigh over 500g EACH! I might have less to brag about soon. The last 2 days of 40C days really gave the garden a beating. Another 2 stinking hot days forecast and I don't know how the garden will be able to take it. The Triple Treat Squash plant looks cooked. :(
Quite a few tomatoes with sunscald. And I think I'll wilt soon, too. |
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| Sounds like early Summer in Brissie, never mind I am sure your plants will pick up again as soon as the weather cools down, where here we have had 83mm of rain in the past 24 hours and the highest temp today was a very cool 25 degs I am just about ready for my Winter clothes, but I will put up with it for all this beautiful rain we are getting at last. A luscious looking basket of fruit and veg there, those are big zucchini thats their normal size is it !!WOW!! I love them Hubby has spuds I have them, he has tomatoes I have red capsicum, wont be long and I will start the veggie garden again. I grew heaps of cukes this spring and they were delicious. So my basket today consisted of Roses and more Roses, Dahlia and Gerber's, well you did ask.
Mind you I would rather have your basket, do you grow Capsicum they are $11:99 a kg in the Supermarkets here thank goodness for the humble fruit shop down the road only $6:99 big difference. I wait patiently for the planting season to start again. Good Luck with your veggie garden....Cheers..MM. |
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- Posted by mabb Melbourne, Aust (My Page) on
Fri, Jan 20, 06 at 6:16
| They are huuuuumungus zuccinis Spatz! 
BR Yellow Currants, Jaune Flamme and first ripe Principe Borghese, as well as our first beans, heaps of snow peas and a couple of Black Beauty eggplants that were low-growing and were't going to get any bigger. That tiny red chilli at the front is a Hot Wax Long Yellow chilli (!!) |
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| I'm getting hungry just looking at the pictures. I haven't had much growing as I have been so busy over the holidays and when I have gotten into the garden it has been too hot. All we've got is a couple of Roma tomatoes that have been in the ground since August (in the kids gardens) and are still giving us 3 or 4 tomatoes every day or 2, some rainbow chard (from August as well) that somehow survived the heat, a couple of cucumbers that are nearly finished, watermelon that will be picked soon, several varieties of pumpkin, corn just finished and some more that should be flowering soon, and mini capsicums (look like chillis). The kids planted dwarf beans yesterday and have other seedlings ready to go in over the next week or so including some from tomato seeds that Raymondo sent us (Thanks Ray, thought we'd wait for better weather before we planted them). |
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| good to see somebody is having some luck with zucchini this year I get one or two and then a heap of male flowers then the plant collapses. picking onions, corn, cucumbers (white and green) beetroot, tomatoes, potatoes, bush beans ans climbing beans, carrots, celery, silverbeet and capsicum. having a go at saving some seed from bush beans this year will see haow they go. |
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| Yum. I'm thinking minestrone. Actually, I'm not thinking muc at all. But if I had a harvest like that I might just make minestrone. The again it's hot. So let's just blanch or grill the lot and toss it with olive oil and fresh herbs and tuck in. Bon appetite. |
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Just did a big tie-up as have neglected the tommies for a while. Pleasantly surprised with the stage they're at. Plants have extended well and truly over the stakes!
Druzba, Amish Salad, Black Russian have been good as has Sweetie. The bigger ones are looking OK although 2 days at >40C can't be good for fruit set. Will take some pics and do a proper inventory later today. Black cherry seems to be a rather large fruit so must be a cross!!
(Onions are ready to pull as well)
Am going to Mville on Wed so my fingers crossed that there has been some rain for both the tommies and the garden.
(Austral Red has some fruit Ray) |
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| Yer Tiz! Zucchini sends apologies - feels inadequate and wants to grow a bit more.  Cosmic
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| Great pictures! Thanks. :) Lomatia, did you get the Black Cherry seeds from me? The cherries that I get off them are pretty big. How big is 'big' in your case? Nick, the zucchinis are now resting, I think. Just like everything else. I guess they need time to recover from that awful heatwave. Hopefully I'll get more zucchinis, as I've only got 3 plants and one of them is not doing much this year. :( The last few cucumbers were really bitter.
Why?
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| Your cukes may need a bit of lime. Cosmic |
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| Spatz, I think I did, however another bush has real cherries so maybe I stuffed up the labelling! The bigger blacks might be Bl Russian? I grew the plants in jiffy discs that swell so labelling was a bit tricky. |
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Those Costata Rom. are amazing aren't they. We've got one for seed , and it's already hitting 50cm, and it must weigh about 5 kilos.
The Ronde de Nice are the same. Huge buggers, but round, and creamy on pasta.I'll post a pic soon. lol. |
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| They are fantastic! Should do one for seed, too. Maybe later. I'm not flooded with zucchinis this year. Strange year. Ronde de Nice has the same problem. Only female flowers and hardly any male flower. |
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