Life has been busy, and the garden's been thriving. My discovery for this season has been the 'Rampicante' zucchini I got from King's. They haven't grown like zucchini, but they're very grown! Huge vines all over the boardwalk by the pond, and the strangest fruit!



This one ended up at 95cm long, which is more than I could contemplate cooking in a single go.

The raspberries also grew more than we could eat, as did the paste tomatoes and the basil. So I've been giving away eggs, silverbeet, basil, and raspberries. Oh and plenty of baby fish :)

It really is the end of the season now, only a few raspberries left, the tomatoes are slowing down and the basil is getting mildewy. On the up side the grapes have just started to ripen, and the chinese gooseberries are looking like they're going to be great in a few months. The kohlrabi are just coming through too, having grown caterpillars for the chooks they're going to be dinner for me very shortly :)

I'm hoping to spend some of next weekend planting the winter crops. Two varieties of broad beans I think, plus peas, lettuces, more silverbeet, spinach and maybe potatoes. Then I'll see how much room I've got to sneak in some treats like some beautiful beetroot and radishes.

Tags: Veges, Chooks, Fruit, Grapes

• Silverbeet (two crops)
• Peas (two crops)
• Broad beans
• Lettuces (successive plantings)
• Spinach
• Mesclun
• Basil (sweet, black and cinnamon)
• Perennial and biennial herbs (a wide variety including various thymes, parsleys, lemon balm, chives, garlic chives, marjoram, oregano, winter savoury, lovage, bay)
• Zucchini
• Coriander
• Rhubarb
• Beans (yellow bush)
• Cress
• Corn salad
• Sorrel
• Carrots
• Radishes
• Dill
• Garlic
• Shallots
• Plum (yep, one plum from a new tree)
• Black currants
• Blueberries (just starting, and again new plants so a very restricted crop)
• Raspberries (the summer flush on autumn varieties)
• Gooseberries

The tomatoes are nearly on the list, but a couple more days I think.

Tags: Veges, Fruit