This was our vegetable garden in May:
This is the garden now:
As you can see, Melbourne’s recent good rainfall has spurred on a typical springtime growth I no longer dared to believe in. If you click through to Flickr it will show the notes I’ve made on the pictures, but here’s a brief rundown:
1) My silverbeet is the champion silverbeet of all time. Shame I’m the only one who eats it.
2) My mint has gone beserk, and…mutated I think. The leaves are massive and on the furry side. Is this normal?!
3) My oregano has also gone beserk, but I’ve been told it can do that if you let it take over.
4) Obviously, I have let things take over.
5) Those leaves in the bottom left corner of the top shot are the (formerly) presumed dead oak tree.
I took these shots the other day before I pushed up my sleeves and did some heavy weeding. Today I’m off to Bunnings to do my summer planting shopping of tomatoes and basil. While I’m at it I’ll get another chili. The other one died of some sort of fungus (?) The leaves just started to crumple and rot on the plant. Does this happen much? Or is it just me?
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oregano that has gone mad? you lucky, lucky person. I should go round to my sister-in-law’s and see if she’s still got any rocket.
Great veggie gardening and yes, I was just thinking it was time to start doing somehting about my tomatoes! I’ve grown them from seed other years but haven’t been organsied enough this year ;-(
Yep, am pretty sure that is normal for mint. My garden has done much the same thing too. It looks good though!
Mint will spread everywhere, the smaller leaves are the yummy ones to use. You can separate new plants from it to give as Xmas pressies, too.
Silverbeet will self-seed new plants if you let it go to seed, save you buying more. Use it up by hiding it in home made pasta (spinach-type green pasta) or wilting it with onions and spices to add to salads.
Amazing what a bit of rain and sun can do isn’t it!
I am jealous of your oregano! And I second the idea of cooking the silverbeat into stir fries and pasta sauce… no one will ever know! LOL
Thanks guys for the advice. I did some gardening on the weekend – despite suffering from a cold. Maybe I’m developing a green thumb after all!