So electric blanket on and for once I am in bed really early. Its 9dC/48.2dF, it only got to 12dC/ 53.6 dF now this is late January in the Southern Hemisphere. It is not right and not the first time that this has happened this month! Then two days later we had temperatures of 36dC/96.8, last week we had similar but by 10 am the day after the cold day it was 35dC/95dF at 10am we ended up at 38dC/100.4dF mid afternoon.
Is it any wonder my vegetable garden is not doing well. I know I am not alone, even my wonderful neighbours stunning vegetable garden is struggling. We have also had unseasonal rain and heavy wind gale force on several days.
yellow zucchini 
pumpkin 
capsicum/sweet pepper 
black chilli 
sea holly 
Peter Cundal Pumpkin 
Variety of Tomatoes 
Red currant bush 
asparagus bed, and sad calendula. 
pumpkin/zucchini bed 
Eggplant/ Aubergine flower 
eggplant/aubergine flower 
walking onion 
rhubarb 
bay tree with healthy new growth 
chilli and capsicum/sweet pepper bed with spinach that is seeding up 
fig tree looking OK for autumn figs 
second tomato bed a trial in a more shaded area. 
another trial sweet potato. 
looking over towards empty bed with silver beet seeding, shade tomato bed, and left of screen pumpkin suchinni bed 
pumkin bed fig apple and part of peach tree 
red currants left silver beet seeds and asparagus bed right side gone to seed.
The vegetable garden is so behind this year, My hope is that it will be better in February. My neighbour up the road has put in a huge green house but it is so hot that the tomatoes are cooking inside it almost.
Ahh the joy of gardening 41dsouth.
My first picking from the veggie garden this morning, the tomatoes are not really ripe, and they are tiny. Compared to the small hens egg. The zucchini/courgette is great. Already 100% improvement on my crop last year.
I am thankful for my eggs, for my hens, and rooster. I am thankful that my tanks are pretty full mid summertime very unusual.
Blessings to You. Tazzie
Echidna Home 
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