I’ve been wandering around the garden this morning having a look at what is surviving in the continuing very high temperatures we’ve been having. There are a few things that are looking poorly such as the kale, but remarkably quite a lot of things seem to be going OK.
We planted rockmelon later this year just because we were so busy. Trevor planted a couple of seeds into soil that keeps cool and damp from the run off from the evaporative air conditioner. There are three fruits going well, and female flowers are still appearing. They are also some coming up amongst the green manure but that area is turning into a jungle so I didn’t venture into see how they were doing.
The snake beans that we had no success with last year, have this summer been really yielding good crops of sweet beans. It’s sometimes hard to see them because they look so much like the stems of the beans.
We have had a chili bush now for three years and it is incredibly prolific. There are many many many more chilis than we can use. It yields green and red chilis that just look beautiful in the garden.
The eggplants are getting a go on again and setting fruit. We never getting really large ones, but the flavour is beautiful.
The rosemary we put in last year is turning into a large bush already. We bought as a herb to use with meats. Unfortunately we have taken to vegetarianism again and so its uses are going to be more limited.
And finally one of our favourite plants – luffa – is as usual doing well in the heat (as long as we keep it on a dripper). Beautiful yellow flowers, great looking leaves and not only delicious fruits when picked young, but also the fabulous bath luffa is produced if you leave the fruits to grow big and dry out on the vine.
