Volunteer Tomato Seedlings.

We all love our volunteers, even veggie garden volunteers.
Here's a very keen volunteer that isn't prepared to sit around and wait for some more appropriate Tomato growing weather.

Our Winter here, so far, has been mild and we've had more rain than usual for our climate. We have a week of 6c. mins and 18/19c. max temp coming up so it's still looking good for this little bloke.

Coriander growing time.

Why rewrite what has already been written about our dear Corie, aka coriander, when Penny Woodward from Organic Gardener Magazine has already done a such a bang up job.

Best grown from seed sown directly where they are to grow. Once you start moving them around and transplanting them it only increases the speed before they run to seed or shortens your harvest time..

Also regular picking or harvesting, whether youre using it or now will add to the life span of your coriander. This also applies to most other herbs as well.

So, get sowing, now's the time!

Cheers

Stewart.

Starting Sweet Potatoes

I know little about Sweet Potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) and even less about getting them started but I'm not going to let that stop me from having a go.

Forest Hill Farm Stall

A few weeks back riding home from Jerry Colby-Williams open garden I stopped at a roadside stall outside Forest Hill called Forest Hill Farm Stall.

Phil Dudman

Now I'd been reading in the September issue of Organic Gardener a story by Phil Dudman about growing and getting sweet potato started.

So when I saw the sweet potato at the farm stall I just had to get one and have a go at starting my own.

Roughly following Phil's advice this is what I've come up with.

He also says you can start from cuttings, aka slips, if you know of someone that has a crop already which I don't.