Weekend plans

JOBS TO BE DONE: 23 November 2024

9 to 10am followed by coffee and chat.

Summer crops continue to progress well due to another week of milder weather and rain showers. Unfortunately aggressive foraging has occurred again this week. Six chard plants last week and several lettuces this week.

On a brighter note CCG has purchased a Stihl battery operated pruner which has enabled pollarding of the mulberry  and the elderflower trees as recommended by CoS horticulturalist Jen Beer. 

Tahitian Lime tree will be pruned after fruiting.

• Stink bugs continue to thrive in this tree. Please pick off the bugs whilst wearing protective glasses and drown them in a bucket of water.

• This week I’m recommending using the foliar spray Nutrisoil throughout the garden.

Bed1- Zucchini flowers are budding. Check if there is a pumpkin also growing in one of the Zucchini cages and remove if you agree.

Arbor1- Tie the Squash Tromboncino to the arbor.

B2- Bag any tomato fruit. Harvest Kale. Mulch bed lightly with pea straw.

A2- Check for Lebanese Cucumber germination. 

B3-Harvest Lettuce by taking a few outside leaves from several plants. Remove Scarlet Runner Bean. Place two of the round tomato frames in the bed and plant two Lebanese Cucumber seeds on each one.

A3 (i) - Tie Lebanese Cucumber plants to the frame.

A3 (ii)- Check for germination of climbing beans.

B4 - Harvest…I think you’re going to love eating these lovely flat  beans which are producing abundantly.

A4- Harvest our first Lebanese Cucumber and tie the vine to the arbor.

B5- Harvest chard, lettuce and rocket sustainably.

A5- Cheer on the two Lebanese Cucumbers which are trying to grow here.

B6- As Jane has mentioned the corn is doing well.

A6- Harvest the first of the Blue Lake climbing beans.

• Remove any parsley plants which are going to seed in the pots on the fence and plant some new parsley seeds in their place.

• Harvest small leafed spinach which is in the pot on the Eastern fence.

• Harvest some Lemon Verbena and Lemon Balm to make tea or cordial

• Native pots - trim off spent daisy and kangaroo paw flowers. 

• Topdress the back corner bed where the mulberry and elderflower grow then plant some leafy green seeds there.

• Tend compost bins and worm farms

• Remove eucalyptus leaves from the beds.👨‍🌾