The garden share collective - March

 

My courgettes are growing well, but this has appeared on a few of the leaves, does anyone know what it is?

 

  

 

 

 

 

Roseanna and Betty - room with a view.

I haven't watered much over the last week or so and it shows.  The pump for the bore water has broken so I have been watering with buckets, and it is so time consuming.  But I have a plan to sort it this week and I still have my fingers crossed for some rain to come.  Looking forward to spending more time in the garden these coming weeks.  Our busy February has finished and last week I found out that George has a place at the kindy we have had our names down for.  The waitlist was huge so I was just going to keep him home with me till a spot came up.  I will now have three free mornings a week........can you imagine??!!

 

Growing in the garden I have:

Courgettes
Tomatoes
Capsicum
Celery
Carrots
Silverbeet
Lettuce - nearing the end.  Not sure if I'm going to replant.
Strawberries

The sun and white butterflies have not been kind to the following which are only just hanging in there:

Broccoli
Cauliflower
Pumpkin
Watermelon
Rockmelon

Herbs - basil, parsley, flat leaf parsley and a rosemary hedge.  I need to re-plant the coriander as it has been dug up by a toy truck and squashed.

Fruit trees - Peaches.  Golden Queen and a white flesh variety.  Both are beautifully fragrant.

Expecting to harvest/sow:

Lettuce is nearing the end.
Tiny tomatoes are starting to show.
Plenty of strawberries.
Peaches
Capsicum

To do list:

Monthly weed and soil turning.
Large vegetable garden - currently empty but composting under layers of lawn clippings.  This needs to all be turned over.  I'm planning a garden path through the middle and a good layer of garden mulch put through in readiness to plant in the winter vegetables - This was on my February to do list, but it has been such a busy month I have only kept up with occasional watering and some weeding.

Joining in with Lizzie from Strayed from the table.

"The Garden Share Collective is a group of bloggers who share their vegetable patches, container gardens and the herbs they grow on their window sills. Creating a monthly community to navigate through any garden troubles and to rival in the success of a good harvest we will nurture any beginner gardener to flourish. Each month we set ourselves a few tasks to complete by the next month, this gives us a little push to getting closer to picking and harvesting. The long-term goal of the Garden Share Collective is to get more and more people gardening and growing clean food organically and sustainably."