Thursday, January 1, 2009

First harvest...

Very exciting, our first big harvest. We've had almost all the lettuces out, and about half a dozen carrots, but I went down to check the state of things this evening, and found the following ready to come inside:
The tomatoes are not overly ripe, but the few that had ripened on the plants had been eaten by birds - they eat away at one side, eat the middle out, and leave the rest, like this:Not impressed. So as soon as they start to turn reddish, we're bringing them in to ripen in a paper bag somewhere dark. Not ideal, but at least we don't have to share with the birds.

Current harvest to date:

5 cos lettuces
3 cucumbers
4 strawberries
6 carrots
650g roma tomatoes
400g snow peas

Given we only planted nine weeks ago, I'm pretty happy with this. There's capsicums on the plant, but they're not ripe. The eggplant is flowering. The pumpkins are taking over the world, as is their wont, and there's about a dozen baby pumpkins on the vines. The corn is as tall as the fence now, and the flowers have formed, so ears shouldn't be too far away now. All in all, going swimmingly.

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