Weekend plans

JOBS TO BE DONE: 13-Sept 2025

9 to 10am followed by coffee and chat.

This week has been WET with over 100mm rain falling just on Wednesday.

Jobs outside beds

Test the pH of the soil in the garlic bed - looking for 6-7. Then dress garlic bed generously with compost.

It’s time to plant ginger, turmeric and galangal bulbs. Where can they go? Check to see if the chilli plants in the pot on the eastern fence are alive. If not, remove, add compost and plant some ginger bulbs. Turmeric could go into the pot near the front gate which previously had Jerusalem Artichoke. Remove chicory first, top dress with compost then plant two turmeric bulbs.

Net the Makrut Lime which is being too heavily foraged by passers by.

Tend compost and worm farms.

Harvest herbs for your own use.

Arbor - 1 

Bed - 1 Harvest chard and celery for your own use by pinching a stalk or two from the base of the plant. Leave at least three leaves on the plant.

A - 2 Admire our only sweet pea to blossom this Spring!

B - 2 Harvest snow peas and celery for your own use. Check to see how the basil seedlings are faring after the wet and windy week.

A - 3 Tidy the nasturtium plant and pick a few flowers.

B - 3 I’m hoping the dwarf beans and basil seedlings enjoyed the rain.

A - 4 Harvest snow peas.

B - 4 Harvest kale, spigariello and land cress for your own use by pinching a few leaves close to the stalk, leaving at least three leaves on the plant. Check to see if the dill seedlings are settling well.

A - 5 This snow pea isn’t thriving. Harvest peas and remove the plant.

B - 5 Harvest radishes for your own use. Check the basil seedlings planted last week have settled.

A - 6

B - 6 The eastern half of this bed has been left for the lettuce and arugula (rocket) to self seed. Check to see how the beetroot and mizuna plants are faring.

Tend compost bins and worm farms 👨‍🌾