Spring 2010- The big plan

Spring plan 2010

Spring plan 2010

So this is my big plan for Spring. As you can see, I’ve got a good selection of my summer favourites; Ha-ogen melon, Tomatoes & Pok Choy! I am also trying out new crops such as capsicum, turnips and pumpkins. On top just growing vegetable, I am going to try of improving some of my growing technics, mainly concentrating of 3 things:
Tomatoes – Quality not quantity
With all the problems and troubles I had last year with my tomatoes, this year I am going to be super duper disciple with them. That means picking out lateral growth and only keeping 4 truss of tomatoes per plant. The theory is that this will encourage bigger fruits, which is what I want.
Deep watering
I am guilty of that sporadic watering, which I find is doing more harm than good. Hopefully with deeper watering what I want achieve is a deeper root system that helps my plant to cope with the hash summer heat.
Seaweed application fortnightly.
Seaweed is just a good guy to have around. It is a tonic food for stress plants and encourages root growth. Together with the practice of deep watering, what I hope to see is a healthier crop for the season.

So this is my big plan for Spring. As you can see, I’ve got a good selection of my summer favourites; Ha-ogen melon, Beetroot, Tomatoes & Pok Choy! I am also trying out new crops such as capsicum, turnips and pumpkins. On top of just growing vegetable, I am also going to try out some growing technics I have read over winter.

Tomatoes – Quality not quantity

With all the problems and troubles I had last year with my tomatoes, this year I am going to be super duper disciple with them. That means picking out lateral growth and only keeping 4 truss of tomatoes per plant. The theory is that this will encourage bigger fruits, which is what I want.

Deep watering

I am guilty of that sporadic watering, which I find is doing more harm than good. Deep watering mean water last often but for a longer period of time. With deeper watering what I want achieve is a deeper root system that helps my plants to cope with the hash summer heat.

Seaweed application fortnightly.

Seaweed is just a general good guy to have around. It is a tonic food for plants and encourages root growth (and many other things). Together with the practice of deep watering, what I hope to see is a overall healthier crop for the season.

Seed swap Friday!

Lovely seeds from our friends at "Voted with our forks"

Lovely seeds from our friends at "Voted with our forks"

Since my post on ha-ogen melon, I have been contacted by a couple of readers about seed swapping. I am really pumped up about it; I get to swap some of my extra seeds for something new and exciting, like a mystery box! I thought I will continue this effort with this post, and maybe even start a trend. So after sorting through my box of seeds, these are the seeds available for exchange:

  • Ha-ogen melon
  • Butternut Pumpkin
  • Jalapeno
  • Edamame (soya bean)
  • Tigerella Tomato
  • Sweet corn (Honey & cream)
  • Sunflower yellow pollenless
  • Chinese forget-me-not (blue)

If you are reading this and would like to be part of the action, please leave me a comment and I will get back to you. If you have got no seeds to swap but would still like to join in the fun, do also leave me a comment. Let’s get some seed swapping action happening people!