heading for winter in Sydney

[tielan]

Winter planting got slightly derailed by my acquisition of a six-week job. And the late autumn plantings got disrupted by the new fence we’re putting in between our back neighbours and ourselves. As a result, all my seedlings are languishing in seedling pots too small for them, and I had to pull up the otherwise-growing-beautifully sweet potato.

I’m a bit pissed off about that, tbh.



The carrots, onions, parsnips planting from early autumn have barely moved, although the rocket among it is coming up pretty nicely.



And I planted out a bunch of bok-choy, then sprinkled crushed eggshells around it to deter slugs and snails which are a real problem for me at this time of year.



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The fence before, during, and after. Sorry about the light in the ‘during’ picture, I’m leaving just as the sun comes up, so it’s kind of dark.

Before:


During:


After:


And from the side, before and after:

Before:




After:


I’ll probably need to do a separate post for the pumpkin harvest in the next couple of weeks… :)

Comments

[bridgetmkennitt]

Poor sweet potato. :(

Good luck with the rest of your garden!

[norfolkian]

Thanks for posting this! I find it really interesting to find out how people's gardens are doing in other countries! (I'm in the UK.) I usually get slightly envious at the longer growing seasons in other countries, lol.

Does the crushed egg shell method work? I've never tried that.

[nanila]

The new fence looks great! Hope it lasts a good long while.

Good luck, little bok-choy. May you resist the predations of gastropods.