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March 2nd, 2008: the first corn is
ready for harvesting! It's Golden Bantam, a non hybrid heritage variety.
The stalks are over two metres high and each seed has produced three or
four stalks.
On the right: the asparagus has come up strong as well!
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The potato plants have now died
back completely. |
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Tomatoes, cucumber and eggplants
in the greenhouse
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Crab-apples, ready for picking. |
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March 3rd, 2008: We fill the food dryer with cucumbers, tomatoes
and apples. Golden Bantam corn cobs. The one on the left
has lots of undeveloped kernels. The others are fine. The taste is
disappointing, though. They are very starchy and not sweet. The second
one from the right was picked very early (not quite as yellow yet and
the kernels not filled as much). It tastes a bit sweeter, but still not
as good as the hybrid varieties. We will still grow Golden Bantam next
year, but it's more a staple than a delicacy. We will definitely grow
hybrid corn varieties as well.
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| March 7th, 2008: early autumn in Tasmania.
March is the month of lots of cucumbers, beans and tomatoes. We
use the food dryer, but we also freeze bags of whole tomatoes. Our
large 320l chest freezer is already full! we still have the old 180l
freezer, but it's filling up too. |
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| Artichoke mystery (left picture): these
artichokes are a mystery to us! We have no idea, why we don't get an
eatable fleshy portion. It doesn't seem to matter, if we harvest
them small or large. The seeds form very early and nothing usable
can be salvaged. Last year was totally different. We got some good
artichokes then. They are the same varieties (Purple de Jesi and
Green). Does anybody know, what happened here?
On the right: the Scarlet Emperor runner beans are growing
incredibly well. We can harvest beans daily. And they taste quite
good, much better than we had expected! A bit tougher than the wax
beans, but we like to eat a mixture of different varieties of beans. |
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| March 9th, 2008: this is our stall at Salamanca
Market, Hobart. Our gardens are producing so well, that we decide to
sell fruit and vegies here at the market as well. |
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