August in the garden is all about getting ready for Spring. Of course, around here, we get frosts right up into November, so we can’t plant out much of our summer vegetables till then. We can plant the seeds out into seedling trays, and put the trays in our sun room to germinate and start sprouting, before they get put into the green house.
Country Boy has chosen twelve varieties of tomatoes, as well as several capsicum varieties, some eggplants, and basil, and has planted them all into trays. He uses wooden craft sticks to label what is in each row. All together, he has 38 tomato plants – so I expect we will have another bumper crop this year!
Now that the days are getting longer and (slightly) warmer, we will be mulching and weeding (as usual). Country Boy will be digging over the empty beds, and adding in sheep manure, which we have in abundant supply under the shearing shed.
I am so excited that Spring is finally on the horizon. Already the trees are beginning to blossom, and the garden is enjoying the sunshine.
Your garden is just amazing Jo! I shall be following along, dreaming of the day when I can grow more than just fungus on the vegetables in my fridge! 😉
Not sure where C got the trays from. He used to work at a wholesale nursery, so he may have got them there. You could try a nursery!
Sounds delicious!
Here's what I do with mine: http://www.shesowsseeds.com/2014/08/20/curried-fried-eggplant-with-apricot-couscous/
Love your garden updates! I REALLY need to pull my finger out and get more organised with a 'proper' veggie garden here, but it's always so up in the air as to whether we'll actually stay in one spot for very long so whether to invest in doing much? Ho hum. I have a little plot I'm growing red onions and leeks in, just planted more silverbeet and tomatoes (too early?! I've never planted them so early but was totally sucked in by them being in the nurseries already!) I would love to one day have a seed/seedling set-up like yours, where do you get the trays? Paddlepop sticks great idea. Love the look of your kale, isn't it a pretty vegetable?
Yum. Great to finally meet you on the weekend Rae!
Thanks Stacey
I will dig out some of my recipes. Quite often I just slice them, toss I olive and bbq them. Sprikle with salt to serve.
I am in awe of your 38 tomato plants! If you have the inclination I'd be interested in reading about what you do with eggplants – I know they're easy to grow as the year I lived with girlfriends in a share house one of the others scattered a few seeds around and we had crazy quantities but I've never tried since then through lack of inspiration about what to do with them.
Fabulous as ever, my favourite substitute for rice is lightly mashed cauliflower, it's hard to go back to rice. Sourced the idea from Jane Kennedy x