Winter planting is in full swing at Farm SJT
Mr S managed to get about 20 minutes of digging out of his lazy a boys for 3 days in a row. First week of the hols with me, now they've gone back to mums so I can slow down in the kitchen..... phew...
Where I live we can't grow really proper winter veg but it's a great time of year for tomotoes because the fruit fly go on holidays. 20 plants planted... I puree and bottle and freeze and dry... need enough to keep us going for a year's worth of Italian food.
Also planted onions, carrots, beetroot, parsnip (hope springs eternal), peas of the shelling variety by the truckload plus a few sugar snaps, broccolini (did quite well last year) and a few assorted leafies. Radishes in between that will be done and dusted before the main plants need the space. Garlic due for action over the weekend, although it is getting late for garlic here.
We have native sugarbag bees in a brick wall. I can't get to them but they won't do any damage and continue to polinate. Getting a proper hive is on my bucket list for when I retire.
Did I mention the perpetual pumpkin. 18 months on and I cannot give the sodding things away quick enough to keep up. His boys have pumpkin in almost everything I make, sweet or savoury; thank goodness they don't know!
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