Our chili bush is still going quite well.
What Riley is holding may look like a green chili (or a red one picked before its time), but in fact it is a very sad capsicum. Ours don’t grow any larger than this before they shrivel up and die. Note Riley’s famous bottom lip; jutting out at that angle because I had just caught him picking that capsicum against my explicit instruction not to.
I’m about to pull up the tomatoes – can anyone tell me what Autumn vegetables I should be planting now? Something that won’t take over the entire garden – like Pumpkins can!
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Our pumpkin has turned into some odd mutant climbing plant and is slowly climbing the fence and heading over to our neighbours place. Will be interesting to see if it makes it over or not.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who got sad capsicums (and children who pick them against instructions).
Am completely jealous of the beautiful chili bush! I don’t know if it’s an autumn thing but my mind too has been on gardens and growing and compost… we have a capsicum bush too, with one or two tiny stunted looking things hanging off it. No danger at all of premature picking.
Broccoli, Cauliflower, Broad beans (even if you don’t eat them they’re great for putting nitrogen back into the soil), cabbage, silverbeet.
Go to your local Sunday market and see if you can buy some curry plants, pak choy/bok choy, celery, beetroot,, etc – some are easy to grow from seed but try to grab them as seedlings
I know that corn is a good option at this time of year!
Not hot consistently hot enough for long enough capsicums.. which seems stupid considering the crazy hot patches we had this year…. try planting them in front of a sunny brick wall next year for more warmth? Or just give up like I’ve done – though it’s a fair bit colder up here.
We’ve just put in peas (sugar snap so we can eat them straight off the vine, pods and all, since that is the way M does it regardless of the variety) and broccoli and cauli.. cause the girls love those.