Week 3

This week has been interesting. Ive had a few visitors to my garden from my niece and nephew to snails to a misterious plant eater. These are the photos from this week and how much the plants have grown.

Box 1

The capsicum are probably the worst box out of them all. There are only a couple of plants growing as they should and only one other that hasn't died.

This is the biggest of them and it looks like a happy little seedling, but only a seedling still. The ones that got eaten by snails last week are now brown twigs.

Box 2

The lettuces are doing well and you can hardly see the soil beneath them which is great. They grew alot quicker then I thought they would.

These are the cherry tomatoes. They have grown alot, and I found some suprises when I looked throught them.

I found a number of little fruits! I don't know if the different colours mean that some are further in their development or that they are going to ripen in different colours (from different trees), but thats part of the suprise.

Box 3

My peas are slowly getting there... they aren't the best box but their still working on getting back to life. In saying that I do not actually know what they are meant to look like like I do with lettuces, tomatoes and beetroot.

Box 4

These tomatoes are doing well too, but no fruits to report just yet. I've put stakes in for the taller ones to grow on, I just need to attatch them. Even though they don't have fruit yet they do have lots of flowers which is a very encouraging sign.

Box 5

The mini cauliflowers are much bigger and you can't see much of the soil under them. This may, however, be because of overcrowding when I planted them...  woops. Something has been going around a few of my boxes and enjoying my plants before I can. You can see, in the bottom left corner, that there is quite a bit of the leaf missing, and it is like that through a few of these plants.

Box 6

My chives are doing well.... but I really do need to go into their own pot, they are starting to be swamped by the beetroot.

My beetroots are growing well but once again something is eating them. I noticed that something was eating them on the beetroot before any other plant because the beetroot goes purple around the wound.

This photo was taken on Tuesday but by Wednesday, when I took the rest of the photos, the holes were much bigger. I have tryed looking for what it there but dispite my looking every day I have not found a single thing.

Box 7

My cucumbers are growing fast as well. Half the box looks empty, but they are growing over the sides of the box, something I will need to photograph for next week. As with some of my other plants, my cucumbers have had a visitor too and as a result some of the leaves have big holes in them.

Veranda Pots

My mint is growing tall and starting to smell very minty if you rub it between your fingers.

This is the mysterious herb. My sisters boyfriend (also a chef) told me that it was thyme, and not rosmery like I thought. Either way it is growing really well. I'm going to get rid of all the dead growth to give it room to grow more.

This week my niece had a look around the garden and touched everything to see what it felt like. The tomatoes and cucumber were furry but the beetroot felt nice just like the mint, although she did not like the smell of the mint at all. More on my neices garden adventures later.