My Garden Layout

Just a couple of photos of my vegie garden layout.

Imagine these photos side by side.

Apple Thieves

Our Royal Gala Apple tree had its first crop of apples this year and we almost missed out on them.  The small tree actually had 13 apples on it and Petal liked picking one as she wanted one, that was until she spotted three Rainbow Lorikeets eating the apples. She raced to the tree and chased the parrots away, then picked the apples and bought them inside.

The funny thing with the parrots was that they came back about 30 minutes later, but there wasn’t anything for them. We’ll have to net the tree next year.

Gold Rush Zucchini

We grew Gold Rush Zucchini, plus the cross with Jade Numbat Petal did last year. We saved fruit from the cross, but didn’t get any mature seed. Strange as it seems, we let the fruit go until quite large, but all seed was without an embryo and just dried to skin only. 

No problem as we’ll sow last years seed again as it is such a good producer, why wouldn’t you grow it.

Moon & Stars Watermelon

I didn’t think I would ever grow watermelons, but I got offered some seed from a follower on Instagram, so I grew a couple of plants. Petal had to hand pollinate them as with so much bushfire smoke about, we had no bees in the yard.

To cut a long story short, we ended up with five melons, which averaged 2.5kg or better. Inside they were a pinkish colour, rather than a nice red we were expecting. Considering they were a little under done, they tasted alright and we devoured three of them, but reneged and gave the last two away.