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New crops on the block.

Monday, January 11, 2010
There's a few new and/or progressing crops on the block. Here's a peek...


Baby bean plants- green bush beans

There are a number of ways for plotting out your planting beds and seed rows. We mainly rely on our drip irrigation 
tape, to form the straight lines and then plant at the intervals we want each seedling to grow at along the tape, marrying each seed/plant with a drip hole.


New rocket crop

The small-seeded rocket isn't sown on a 'plant-by-plant' basis, just more thickly in general rows and so absorbs the required moisture from the soil saturation.
 

Row of red bok choi


Tomatoes are growing, flowering & generally coming along nicely.

 
Golden Shallots October 2009
 
Golden Shallots early January 2010

The shallots have been largely irrigated by the winter rains but now need to be watered via our low-set overhead sprinklers when required. 


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