Our Garden

Our garden is always in the full throws of growing delicious food for us. Looking back so far on the summer season, I can see what suited our climate this year and of course next year will always be a little different :) 

Our Top Crops have been our tomatoes, capsicum, basil, pumpkins peaches and rhubarb this season. For our tomatoes, we planted black cherry tomatoes, JBP, Albenga Oxheart and San Marzano. We have enough tomato passata to last us 12 months. Even our accidental pumpkins did well and we got 7 out of them! We grew enough cucumbers to bottle 6 jars, enough for burgers and cheese boards for a year. Rhubarb has been our go-to for dessert with whatever fruit is in season. 

Oh and did I tell you about the peaches? I was amazed! For its first picking season, I picked 6 x 2-litre containers of golden queen peaches. 

Our Flops were pretty much everything else (haha). Our corn did little else but sprout and then die, and then our jalapenos and mulata chillies were shaded by tomatoes. The beans I didn't pick often enough. I didn't grow any other greens, which made me realise how expensive it all gets at $4 per bag. Our plums gave us enough to eat one each day for a week or two. An increase from last year, but not buckets.  

That's about it from me right now, but reach out to me via email at  hello@lovegroweat.co.nz if you have any questions, or want to collaborate. 

Grow well, 

Becca x