Garden Updates

First Real Frost! Icy Silverbeet On Monday I awoke to find the yard carpeted in a shimmer of white, as the first real frost of the season hit. Well, that is to say, the first frost I was up early enough to witness! It was cold enough that as I went to water the garden I spent 5 minutes trying to find the kink in the hose before realising that the hose had frozen solid somewhere. It was also cold enough to partially defoliate my fig tree...

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Cauliflower and Peas

Cauliflower I haven't tried growing any brassica crops before this year, and had intended to put down cauliflower, brocolli and brussel sprouts, however this all got turned on its head when I planted way, way too many cauliflower. I had no idea how large these plants would grow, and now have ended up with a veritable sea of cauliflower plants in my garden bed. Cauliflower plants have huge leaves and take up tonnes of space! My Field of...

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Chilean Guava, Columnar Apples and Olives

In the last couple of weeks I have accumulated some new fruit trees for the garden, and for pots. Several of these came from the growers market in orange, however I also had two new varieties of fig trees from South Australia delivered and some Chilean Guava from Diggers. Chilean Guava (Myrtus Ugni) I recently came across some another blog that mentioned Chilean Guava, a shrub with small green leaves that reportedly grows one of the...

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