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August 2008
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August has arrived, it's still the middle of winter, but we are
working in the garden again. After all, spring is just around the corner!
Right: the green manure has survived the bird attacks very well! The patch at the front is our first planting of Pink Eye potatoes. |
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Early potatoes: Last year we planted all the Pink Eyes on August 24th, this year we experiment with earlier plantings. Some people in our area already plant middle by of July. Frost could burn the young plants, though, and they have to be protected against the cold with hay. We risk it and plant one third of a row with Pink Eye potatoes on July 27th, and another third on August 10th. The last third will be planted on August 24th. Let's wait and see if such earlier plantings are successful! | |||||||||||||
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A few surviving broad beans in the garden bed that the birds loved so much |
More bird problems: last year we sowed two rows of broad beans
without any problems. This year was very different. We planted the broad
beans three times without success (May 15th, June 9th and June 30th). Every time
birds dug out the seeds or trimmed off the plants at ground level.
Even bird netting didn't help. They still got in somehow.
Right: these two rows of broad beans were planted on April 10th, already, and they are doing well! Why? What is the difference between these almost adjacent beds? Only the dates of planting. |
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Left: we didn't succeed outside, so we planted these broad bean seeds
in the greenhouse. Finally success! But broad beans don't need to be planted
in green houses. Just a desperate measure!
Right: Chinese cabbage raised in the greenhouse for planting outside, and mini cauliflowers. |
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Left: tomatoes in August! They were planted nearly a year ago
and raised in our greenhouse without heating. They started producing
in January but they now show first signs of mildew and we had to cut them
back heavily.
Right: early sowings of Sugar Snap bush and climbing peas, Southern Cross bush peas, two kinds of green sprouting broccoli, Red Drumhead cabbage and Brunswick cabbage (for Sauerkraut) |
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Left: eggplants from last year. Let's see if they will produce a
second time.
Right: Chinese cabbages and Sugarloaf cabbages raised in the greenhouse are planted out today.
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Onions: We eat lots of onions, but they are so difficult to grow! These were planted in June and July. The tiny seedlings need to be planted carefully, then the beds need to be weeded and the onions almost look like grass, and it takes half a year for them to mature! | ||||||||||||||
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