Productive Gardens

It’s not to late to register for our 2009 Plant a Seed a Day Challenge. There’s no cost, all you need to do is put down your name and start growing.

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I have kept my new years resolution to plant at least one seed every day and as this photo shows, I even took seeds and jiffy plant starters away on our holiday to the Whitsundays (I must say some family members in the car weren’t so impressed with having to be careful with a certain containers of germinating seedlings!)
But now I’m back and have well established lettuce, cucumber and tomato seedlings to transplant into the garden.

So please join me in this project, the worst that can happen is that we end up with barrows of fresh produce for the kitchen. I have set up this page on the website where I’ll display my progress and welcome any of your photos or ideas as well. There will also be prizes going out for impressive achievements along the way.

Strawberries are starting to be harvested from the mini gardens.

Nice bunch of Bananas coming along.

Plenty of Oakleaf lettuce that gets picked each day.

Tomatoes are a little slower in this cooler weather but it won’t be long now!

These Sebago potatoes are going well.

Carrots and Beet root nearly ready to pull.

Our pineapple patch has been quite productive lately and they are nice and sweet. I replant the tops for a continuing cycle.

It’s just a matter of screwing the top off and removing the lower leaves of the top to expose about 20cm of bare stem – this is where the roots will develop.
It,s a good idea to leave the top on top of another plant for a week to dry and then plant it out. They can be planted quite close together eg. 20cm apart.

Lots! As Barbara’s home at Moggill proves. She has a really productive little area along the side of the house which is no wider than 60 cm. These are some of the healthiest cherry tomatoes I have seen in a while, along with an egg plant and lots of fresh herbs for her families meals.

I have had 4 buds on my dragon fruit plant that has been growing in a pot and they all decided to open up on the same day. They are huge and covered with pollen. I am really looking forward to the fruit.