"Balmoral Park" farm garden

Today it has been 26 degrees and still in winter! I am worried about the summer already, not least because we have less water in the big dam than usual. However have to keep on with the garden plan so this weekend has been a busy one in the garden. I have started planting my summer vegetable seeds in the cold frame so today have planted: Many varieties of tomatoes including: an heirloom mix Galapagos Christmas grapes cherry roma Ox heart Money maker tigerella Also Capsicum California wonder, seven color mix and Jimmy Nardello Cucumber double yield and mini muncher Zucchini Black Beauty and Tromboncino Eggplants Long Purple, Heirloom mixed and Listada di Gandia Shallot Green Asparagus Lettuce flame Tomatillo purple Lettuce crisp mint Tuscan black kale Coriander Also planted to seed a polystyrene box of mesculen mix and one of rocket We moved a small lemon tree to a new location where we hope it will flourish and planted our bay tree out from the pot into the garden. Will also plant out ...

Aquaponics, winter 2009, probably the best crop it has grown Marmalade I made with the fruit from the little citrus trees. Blood orange, orange, grapefruit and lemon..yummy and a great colour. It will be great to get more blood oranges next year. A heirloom variety of Broccoli...the kids used to call these Madonna's bra when they were little. Brassica's and colorful chard A view of the Vegetable patch More winter veg Nasturtiums and flat lead parsley volunteers! View from the backdoor Stock grown from seed, smells great! garlic and herbs Radicchio..great colour Artichokes...mostly volunteers! violets... originally these violets came from John and Margot's home in Wingham, they were Robyn neighbors. We planted them at Treetops where they were one of the great survivors...planted one here and thought it was dead and now they are everywhere...today I potted up a dozen for planting in the rose gardens.

Late autumn roses T his little succulent came from the garden at "Bindawalla", I hadn't expected it to have such a pretty flower and it has been flowering for about two months. We planted it next to a camellia that has a similar colored flower so it looks very pretty. The Pumpkin Harvest Turks Turban, one of the heirloom pumpkins I grew Joey's Garden (Before we knew Jemima we prepared a garden to plant twenty Just Joey Roses) This is the garden just before planting