Green Fingers

This weekend we hit the local SuperPlants, armed with very little cash, to stock up on veggie seeds for the winter growing season. My son came back wanting to grow 5 different things, while I only got to pick 2.

With extra land available, we're looking forward to crops of onions (red and white), peas, runner beans, beetroot (for dietary iron), carrots and a variety of lettuces. Incidently, my dad's convinced beetroot is a weed that came up as a result of sin....

Yesterday I decided to haul up 2 potato plants that were yellowing, self-grown from things thrown on the compost heap. We reaped 4 large potatoes from a very dark rich soil! Ever had a potato so fresh that it cruches when you cut it and drips juice? Then you ain't had a fresh potato yet! :)

We next built our first tater tower - fallen leaves layered with eye-containing pieces of potato, which will produce a crop over winter and compost from the broken-down leaves. Stuck in a sweet potato too to see what would happen.

We've finally got spikey cucumbers appearing - a bit late in the season, but there nevertheless. The eyeballs (baby tomatoes) are growing at last, along with a whole new crop of large tomatoes that voluntarily over-ran the roses. There's even a sweet melon plant coming up where seeds and rind were chucked out.

Seems our garden is just not ready to slow down and vegetate (excuse the pun) for winter just yet! Then again, it was HOT this weekend, so there may still be time for many good things, fresh out of the rich soil.