Saturday, October 30, 2021

GROWERS' MARKET, GARDEN AND MONARCH BUTTERFLIES

We went to the Growers' Market bright and early this morning and got a good selection of vegies - spring onions, leeks, avocados, tomatoes, carrots and orange kumara (sweet potato) as I like them for grating and making patties.  

We also bought some vegetable plants.  They were getting a little large as the market was closed for several weeks so they just held on to the plants.  Anyway, we bought a couple of Beefsteak tomato plants, one Russian Red, and one each of a yellow, orange and red capsicum.  

We also bought a couple of plants of a tomato that is new to us, the Scorsby Dwarf - it sounds like an excellent tomato.  I have also sown seeds of a tomato by Yates Seeds which just goes by the name of Big Red but they have not emerged as yet.

I still have a lot of tomatoes in the deep freeze so we don't plan on growing as many this year.  

Rain is forecast for this afternoon so they should perk up 



Below is one of the Scorsby Dwarf.



We usually have self sown poppies in the flower gardens but for some reason we have them in two of the vegetable beds and none in the flower garden.  Still they are nice and bright.



It is starting to feel as though summer is on its way.

8 comments:

  1. I have a self sewn single red poppy, out the front, and have those "triffid Beans" doing well again.Lovely bright pink, just what we need during the Covid Days!!

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    1. I am late with seed sowing because of the weather but have a short row of mostly Dally beans just come up. Will sow the triffid beans soon.

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  2. What a wonderful selection of tomatoes and those summer vegetables. You're going to be enjoying some nice fresh salads . You're a great gardener!

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    1. I hope we are. It appears weather is going to be wet and windy over summer so fingers crossed.

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  3. It's definitely been feeling more humid and warm here especially at night, I'm not looking forward to Summer.

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    1. A bit cooler here tonight thank goodness. Hopefully, summer won't be as bad as the forecast.

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  4. No plants for us yet, as I like to see my plants when I buy them and not do click-and-collect. It might just be the year of no vegetable garden and a very bare flower garden.
    Love your last poppy photo. They are so pretty, aren't they :)

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