Garden Diary, 11 June 2006
Planted some lupins in the potato patch by the gate a couple of months back. They're about 15 cm high now. I'll probably dig them in around august to give them a month to rot before planting stuff in september-ish.
Potatoes from last season are still going strong, probably enough to take us another 2-3 months, which is much better than I'd hoped. Some of them are starting to sprout, which I think might be because they weren't in a cool enough place in the garage. The weather is getting colder now so sprouting should stop for a while.
Finally got my mushrooms sorted out a couple of months ago. Got three logs ( 2 x shitake, 1 x oyster ), gave one shitake to Josh as a control :-), and planted the other two in the corner by the kitchen. Should be cool and shady enough there, hopefully. They should start fruiting around September, I think.
I'm getting Carl Perkins (www.oneearthmatters.co.nz) in to look at redesigning our property along permaculture lines. I've removed the sandpit (since the kids don't use it any more) to expand the vege garden, but I figured it would be good to get the whole garden redesigned since it's starting to get developed higgledy piggledy. Should be an interesting exercise.