Sprung Spring

I planted up the first two beds with summer crops on the weekend. This bed is where the potatoes were. This is mostly herbs, coriander, dill, parsley, lemon basil and oregano. There's also some leaves - chicory, mizuna and something called land cress. There's an eggplant tagged Thai Eggplant. I thought these were small black ones similar to the ones I grew last year. Though they may end up being small, green ones like these. I'll found out in a few months I suppose.

I've planted two different types of beans to climb up the black meshing, Blue Lake and Purple King. These will hopefully serve two purposes. To supply beans, obviously, and to provide some afternoon shade for the soft herbs. My back yard gets cooked in summer so with any luck this will work.

The next bed has the first of the tomatoes for this year. A sweet Bite cherry tomato, a heritage type called tigrella and a roma. There's also sweet basil, purple ruffled basil, marigolds and an eggplant called Japanese Long Tom. This is more like what I was after with the Thai Eggplant above. I've also planted beans around the wire for the same reasons above.

Eggplant overload

I was right, I'm a bit overloaded with eggplant. My neighbours and friends are the benefactors which is cool, and part of why I grow veggies. It's also the nature of growing in the backyard patch, a feast and famine thing. I might try to pickle some if I get the time.



Eggplant

I've started picking the Lebanese Eggplants. I planted out a punnet of six of these, way too many, and given the number of small fruit on the plants I might be overwhelmed soon. Though it's fun to grow big black eggplant these are much better for a small garden.