I'm Cooking Dinner

Probably the wrong day to do it, but I'm cooking a boned leg of Pork for dinner in the camp oven. I think the neighbours may know by now what I'm doing.

 

Air Drying Garlic

Here is one of four varieties of Garlic we grew this year and have just cleaned up, these being Monaro Red. These will sit for another month now before going through the dehydrator as Garlic Flakes.

 

 

80mm Garlic

 While we had a great Garlic crop this year, some of the globes we got were huge, with a few between 75mm - 80mm. Here's one of our purples which was 80mm when pulled, now just under as it dries.

Our Zucchini Cross

A sneak peek at our Zucchini cross and the minor differences that have shown up, which will determine which ones make it next season. The ribbing and stripes are the main thing we think will make these appealing to growers. In no particular order, these range from all yellow to ribbed and striped. All these zucchini's will be saved for seed this year, currently range from around 30cm up to 40cm.

First Picking

Here is a photo of the first picking..

This photo shows the striping from the Jade Numbat showing up in this new cross.

 

Zucchini's Started Producing

I guess with 9 plants pumping out zucchini's, it won't be long until picking starts in earnest. These are our Gold Rush X Jade Numbat cross, which needed to be hand pollinated due to lack of male flowers. We have a few marked to keep for seed, so all being well we'll get some.

 

Macalister Tomatoes

 My Macalister tomatoes are fruiting, not as many as I'd hoped for, but it maybe the season perhaps. Here's a look at one starting to get some size to it. I hope I get a few with bags on to save some seed.

My Benches

Well, the benches are now finished, thanks to Jan lacquering the bench tops and me fitting the vice yesterday. I purchased a LED fluorescent light to go over the longest bench, so will get that installed soon.

This is the last photos of them.

Some Spuds to Finish With

Making room in the garden for other things saw some Ruby Lou potatoes dug this morning. I like these boiled with some butter and cracked pepper.

Why Waste Them

 Jan cut off the un-pollinated zucchini's this morning and will cook these to eat. There is nothing wrong with them, so why waste them.

New Additions

Finally got around to making a couple of work benches for the shed. First one was 3.5m x 80cm the second was 1.8m x 80cm, both 90cm high.

These are heavy, but won't need to be moved once tops are sealed.

 

 

 

                                                                                                                              

Garlic Galore

Well, I pulled some of my Garlic this evening, not by solstice or the moon, but because they were ready. I started with three rows of Tasmanian Purple and I'm very pleased with the results. Well over half of those pulled were a great size, with a lot of big globes among them. I have three or four more varieties to do tomorrow and will lay out on the lawn to start the drying process. The bigger bulbs in the Tasmanian Purple measure between 75-80mm, can't ask for more than that.

Bottom two photos show:-

Monaro Red, probably the smaller size bulbs of all pulled so far.

Wilde Pearl, a good mix of sizes medium to large.