Week 50 - Planting

Have been planting heaps in the vege garden this week. Have planted six broccoli, 2 cucumber, 2 zucchini and 6 celery (not that I even like celery but the rest of the family eats it). I planted the broccoli first and within a few hours the dog had dug most of them up. I replanted them and hopefully have managed to save them all. Luckily he hasn't touched any of the others, so hopefully he has learnt his lesson.

There are lots and lots of potatoes growing in the garden. Some have even just opened flowers on them - hopefully they'll be ready for Christmas dinner. I guess these have all grown from the potatoes I failed to harvest last year.

We also still have lots and lots of potatoes left over in the cupboard from last years harvest. Most of these are growing eyes and ears and noses, roots and shoots. I took a couple of dozen and planted them in the garden as well. No idea if they'll actually grow properly but I can't see why they wouldn't. Are these what you call seed potatoes?

So the grand total in the garden now is:

Potatoes: Heaps
Strawberry: Heaps
Tomatoes: 5 (1 got killed)
Lettuce: 0 (all eaten by rabbits)
Broccoli: 6
Cucumber: 2
Zucchini: 2
Celery: 6

Before I could do the planting I had to do a bit of weeding. At least the weeding is nothing near as bad as it was last summer when it had all gotten away on us. There are a lot of buttercups and dandelions and other common weeds I'm not sure of their names. At first I pulled out the weeds by hand. Then I discovered the hoe. It makes life so much easier, and is so much quicker. I can just pull it along and cut out all those weeds in one go. (Or if you want the rude version: "I used to just do the old hand job, until I discovered how good hoeing is, now it just takes one stroke and it's done"!!! LOL).

-M