Well, here we are, March is over and the first month of autumn has gone, but March was a very warm month and it has only been over the last week that the weather has finally started to cool down.
As I expected pickings from the garden have been small, both in size and quantity.
The only two eggplants I've had so far this season with three each of Honeybee and Principe Borghese tomatoes.
Surprisingly over the last two weeks the eggplant has really picked up and has doubled in size, it is covered in flowers so I am hopeful of a few more fruit before the colder weather arrives.
One thing that wasn't small in size was the rockmelon.
It weighed 2.2kgs, and was sweet, juicy and delicious.
I thought it was going to be the only one for this year, but as you know the garden is always full of surprises.
I hope it matures quickly.
There are also two watermelon slowly growing in the garden as well, one is nearly ready to pick,
the other was a relative late comer so I'm not sure it will mature in time.
The pumpkins are getting closer to being ready to be picked every day. I can't wait to cut this one open to see what's inside. This was a volunteer plant that popped up in the garden, and although it looks a bit like a Queensland Blue I have never grown them or bought them so I have no idea what it is.
Looking forward to lot of pumpkin soup this winter made from these beauties.
Readers will remember this photo of a tomato flower from last month's blog post, I have since found out that it is a fairly uncommon condition called fascination. The cause of fascination is unknown, but it is harmless to plants and it doesn't spread to infect other plants.
This is the resulting tomato fruit.
One last photo to finish this post, my orange tree is once again playing host to the caterpillar of the Citrus Swallowtail butterfly, and hopefully I will be lucky enough to watch them hatch again.
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| Photo taken October 2015 |
Hi, Jan. March was really hot here and so not much was harvested in our garden either. Your rockmelon looks lovely and I bet it tasted sublime. I grew cherry tomatoes only this year, in pots, and they did quite well. In my garden now, I'm doing a little planting every day. So lovely that Autumn has finally arrived again. Meg:)
ReplyDeleteI'm also glad that autumn is here, it's my favourite month. I grew cherry tomatoes in pots this year too they did much better than the bigger tomatoes although I wouldn't say they were particularly prolific. I hope you have a bumper winter crop and thank you for dropping by.
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