The Organic Home Garden

Well I am off this Friday to a Yoga Retreat at the Serpentine Retreat Centre. This is always a great time for me I look forward to it every year.

No it’s not just the yummy vegetarian food!

It’s the time to slow down and find some space in a busy life and find some guidance and inspiration for the remainder of the year and beyond. The weekend is also a time to serve one another and my first contribution will be some organic vegetables! Your surprised I know! LOL

I hope to bring a recipe or two back for you all so stay tuned!

This week we are in the grip of lovely winter weather and so the organic gardener has been just relaxing. Lot’s of rain and with it the natural fertilising of the nitrogen dissolved in the water as it falls. There is something special with this natural event it always amazes me how it produces slightly better growth than just chucking on other fertiliser. I suppose when you think about it the plants have been tuning themselves to this natural process for thousands of years and so should be expected to respond so strongly.

Today I picked a lovely pair of organic cauliflowers and there are three more ready by Friday and they will be going to the retreat for dinner. The parsley is so thick and green it would make lovely juice drinks. I hope to take about 2 bags of this to the retreat as well.
The capsicum are nearly finished now – in August? – and the turnips and beetroot are just ripping along. I have just finished eating half the large turnip and will finish it with my Shepherds pie!

This first photo shows the cauliflowers with their leaves to show you how huge the plants are growing.

Here they are all cleaned up!

Some lovely Red Coral lettuce is progressing well.

The baby broccoli are tearing up the garden and the leeks are doing very well too.

Here are the scraps and I chop them up to put in the worm farm!

A layer of newspaper over the top and then lid on top!

Flowers Are Springing

The wattle is bursting into blossom and should be at it’s best this weekend!

The Mulberry Tree is pushing out leaves and should start producing sugar in the new fruit soon!

Well that’s it for this week! I have work everyday so it will be busy up to the retreat.
Have a great week and enjoy whatever season it is your part of the world!

Cya
The Organic Gardener from the Organic Home Garden

Hi everyone just a quick update on the harvest for the first week of August in the Organic Gardeners Patch.

The Cauliflower has grown like mad, still picking Capsicum(don’t ask me how!), baby beetroot, more carrots and the spring onion are leaping out of the ground and there is just a little bit of lettuce about as well. This morning also saw me finding a few sweet potato! They will be yummy with the other veges in a big roast this weekend.

Fertiliser From Worms

The worms gave their best today by supplying 10 litres of liquid fertiliser for me to spray around the vegetables. I added a little seaweed based fertiliser as well to give it a real kick.
Should see a surge in the growth next week! The 20degreeC days are working so well with the chilly mornings – I love growing vegetables this time of the year.

Until next week

Organic Gardener is outa here.