The edible garden

Only a few days into summer and the edible garden is just starting to get going. Plenty of work to do;weeding, planting in rotation to ensure a steady supply, harvesting and watering.

Let's take a look and maybe in a few months I will take some more photos to show how much change takes place.

 On the deck we have containers going with basil,

 rocket,

more rocket and parsely,

 parsely, chives, oregano.

The "Orchard" has peaches, asian pear, plums, two apple varieties, persimmons, feijoa, lemons, blood oranges and nectarine,

 By the back step we have mint,

 Around the water tank we have lavender ( although yet to cook with it but do smell the crushed flower as it is good to reduce anxiety...apparently), vietnamese mint, rosemary and a bay tree.

 JUsst over from that are nasturtium, turmeric,

 amaranth, edible flowers; marigolds.

 Just outside the main garden are strawberries. My chair for sitting whilst I weed is there!

 And no matter what you do, there are always rogue plants the self seed into the path. That is a collard of some variety.

 Purple congo potatoes (purple flesh),  and more kale and in the distant garden more purple congo potatoes, silverbeet, collards, malabar spinach, spinach and a tomato..another rogue .

 Celery, lebanese cucumbers and comfrey at the back. The comfrey is a bit of a pest but the leaves are great for the compost.

 Lebanese cucumber just starting life.

 And the string free celery just beginning.

 Kale and purple congo spuds

 Another rogue; red osaka mustard leaf.

 Thyme, sage and rosemary

 A blueberry and garlic chives

Dill, standard chives and zucchini/courgette depending on whether you are Italian or French.

 Collard green,

 English spinach

 English spinach, and the leaf on the right is the beginning of the malabar spinach which is a vigorous climber. The rogue tomato has the yellow flowers, probably a cherry tomato from last year.

 This could be lamb lettuce. We will have to wait until it gets a little bigger.

 Beans and geranium

Dwarf green beans, kale and sorrell

Dwarf green beans and two leeek going to seed to hopefully self seed, wasabi greens,

 Wasabi greens ( hot and spicy and taste like wasabi), a silverbeet and a kale plus lambs lettuice again. A couple of other things but they need to grow for me to remember what they are.

 Eggplant, red osaka mustard, celeriac, rhubarb,

 Tomato, climbing beans,

 The climbing beans but underneath there is celeriac planted. ( Prague wonder is the variety!)

 Another area with rocket, lebanese cucumbers, edible flowers; calendular,

 kohl rabi, mangawurzel and I think the bigger things are pumpkin.

 Jerusalem artichokes.

 My little house I built, but still a work in progress.

 Cutting s of aloe vera, geranium and some unidentified cactus.

 Rocket and lebanese cucmbers

Calendular once they flower

Part of the nerw area has purple dwarf beans, radish, tomatoes ( two types), eggplant, silver beet

 Can still see through to the chook shed. Chook shed is only to raise young chooks and then we free range them

 Egg plant

 Outsdide the garden again, amaranth,

 turmeric

hens on the rampage

 Rosemary and bay tree,

Back on the deck, back to the basil, hanging plants of pig face ( edible leaves) and geranium( edible flowers)

 Cutting of the unidentified cactus.

 Piece of wood used to house alyssium

Cuttings...might try and sell these. Geranium, spider plants and aloe vera.