In My Garden - Jan - June 2020

In My Garden - Jan - June 2020

Jan has a delightful garden in Dynnyrne. She manages to fit an extraordinary amount of things into a small space. Come on in and join her in her garden. There's lots going on at this beautiful time.

The veggies are abundant in spite of the very naughty sparrows who have taken to the silverbeet and greens with gusto. I'm trying singing tape as a deterrent but that hasn't helped. Looks like it's back to netting.

The lovely lime green mustard appeared recently. Its both showy & delicious with just a hint of heat.

The mixed veggie beds are really doing well but limited space is always a problem for the next crop.

Enter the black recycle bins. Great for mini no dig gardens.

The mini apple is still abundant and disease free whilst the Cox Pippin was fairly 'grubby'. I've painted the trunks with builders lime after seeing this in Turkey. I trialed this on a friend's badly diseased apples and the results were fantastic. Hundreds of apples and not one with disease.

The variegated Meyer lemon is fascinating with its stripey fruit.

And then there's the pumpkins! All 2 of them and tiny. I had no female flowers until mid March. Why is it so?

This year I tried capsicums in a large pot against a north facing brick wall and surrounded by alsonite. The garden is subject to very strong winds but this has been a real success & is still producing in June.

The Abutilons are a wonderful source of nectar for the honeyeaters right through winter. In fact, all year. There are many colours of Abutilon in this garden, all busy with birds.

The back corner is now a small native garden and everything is looking healthy. It'll be good to hide the old fence.

The tool for stirring the cold compost speeds up the process by months. Look at all those worms chomping away. I have 4 standard garbage bins with the bottom cut off. It's an easy and inexpensive system for a small garden.

And finally: don't waste that celery stump! Look at what it grows into.