Welcome back from holidays! It was lovely to have a chance to rest and rejuvenate. There's been little rest for the Waite Community Garden over the break though. The produce has been growing and maturing and some have begun to set seed. It appears to have made it through the hot weather very well and has relished the recent heavy rain.
Many of the spring herbs have gone to seed, and now is your chance to grab some coriander, rocket, dill and tatsoi seeds for your home garden or to plant next year. The rocket seems extremely tough, even coming up in the garden pathways!
Rocket seed pods (sorry for the blurry bit):
The dill seeds are almost ready for harvest:
But the fennel (which looks really similar) still needs to flower and develop a bit more:
As the herbs finish seeding, we will pull them out and replace them with winter vegetables like broccoli, carrots and kale. Stay tuned for news of the next working bee.
The tomatoes are really starting to fruit now, and there are a selection of different varieties. Green Zebra is a favourite, and really is green inside when ripe. The skin turns yellow with green stripes when it is ripe (like the tomato at the bottom of the photo).
There are plenty of cherry tomatoes that have started to turn red. Grab some on your lunch break for a healthy snack.
And the large red types are getting enormous.
So despite the heat, there is still lots happening at the WCG. It's a great time to visit and see what there is to harvest.
