Update on "The yard'

In the last few months since my last post we've planted the raspberrys (see post on raspberrys 27/7/1 )  and did lots of work in the garden, we planted some tomatoes, lettuce, watermelons, rocket, capsicum, chilli, beans, carrots, beetroot, and mangle-wurzel. We also harvested our wheat , pumpkins, onions, garlic, and some of our corn, tomatoes, and beans. In the holidays we mulched our native garden and fruit trees, then we made three pens for our sheep.

The Raspberrys

Just planted tomatoes

Watermelons

Mangle-Wurzels

Corn

Potatoes

Here are some pictures of the potatoes I just dug up. The ones on the left are from the first plant I dug ( from the end of the row). And the ones on the right are from the second plant in the same row. The family and I will be enjoying some nice hot potatoes tomorrow night.

Pontiac potatoes

 They are Pontica potatoes  and weighed in at 1.65 kg from one plant. 7 large potatoes per plant. Our largest individual potato weighed about 360 grams.

Some of the small ones that did not grow

 The next lot of photos are of  Nicola potatoes and averaged 14 medium potatoes from one plant and they weighed in at 1.026 Kg for one plant.

The Nicola

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More Potatoes

We're doing a staggered planting with our potatoes, we planted some a month and a half ago (See post on potatoes 21 July )and they are growing well so I mounded some dirt around the lower stems just leaving the top leaves out to make more roots.

Dirt mounded around potato plant

 Today I planted some Kipfler and Desiree in the same fashion as the last ones (See post on potatoes 21 July.).The rest of the garden is going well and we will be digging in the green manure on the 13th.

Before back filling

Potatoes

Our crop rotation sheet (see last post) potatoes under the month of July so we got 2 bags of seed potatoes from Bunnings and got ready to plant. Paul hoed up the patch and made two furrows 10in deep. We cut each potato in half and dropped them in the furrows 12in apart stepping on them as we went to make sure they were imbedded in the soil, then we covered them with soil and watered them in.

...It is now 3 weeks later and there sprouting.