Garden snippets
The Russian garlic is ready to harvest (all five surviving plants ;-) The Melbourne Market and Australian White won't be far behind.
Baby figs are forming on my baby fig tree...
I finally managed to find some French Tarragon seedlings (as opposed to the less-flavourful and infinitely more common Russian Tarragon)...
The Youngberries are coming along nicely. They should go a dark purple when ripe (I tried one this colour and it was very tart LOL...
Peanuts! The packet advised slow germination & about 50% germination - around 50% have germinated but they did so within 5 days so I must be doing something right. They'll go out the front in the hottest garden bed as they like long hot summers I'm told.
The Chinese Water Chestnuts are poking their heads up above ground...
And the Passionfruit vine is flowering, although no fruit has been set yet as far as I can see.
Happy gardening everyone :-)
5 comments:
Lovely!
Peanuts, Water chestnuts, french tarragon - WOW.
Your garlic looks fantastic!!!
Lovely passionfruit too.. mmmm
Looks like you'll have a lot of tasty things coming out of your garden soon :)
Where do you source your peanuts and water chestnuts from? I like in Newcastle too and would love to find a retailer who stocks the less ordinary plants
Hi Liss,
Thanks :-)
Hi Mondo,
Hello to another fellow Novocastrian! I haven't been able to source them locally sadly, I got mine online when I did some organic seed orders: the peanuts were from Diggers and the water chestnuts from Green Harvest.
Cheers, Julie
Your pictures are fantastic!
I had almost given up on my water chestnuts- thought it was too cold here. This week both have sprouted.
Judging by the heatwave we're having already, I could probably grow peanuts too...
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