Vegetable garden

When I woke up this morning it was very dark outside. I had the vain hope that all the clocks were wrong, and that blissfully I would be able to have another hours sleep. Unfortunately no. The gloom, was clouds and rain. No surprise really, as it will be autumn soon - so I can expect more of the same.

At the end of the day, I swung by the garden centre and picked up some vegetable punnets and seeds.

When I got home I planted:

• Brussels Sprouts (Maxim) - punnet
  
• Cabbage (Pak Choi) - punnet
  
• Cabbage (Cannonball) - punnet
• Silverbeet (Fordhook giant) - seeds (my favourite variety)
• Silverbeet (Ruby Chard) - seeds
  

I think that was reasonable effort, especially considering that it was raining. The dogs must of thought that I was mad. One dog stayed under cover - watching me from the carport. The other waited under a fruit tree.

Now these vegetable are all very "green". Well apart from the Ruby Chard. So in the next few days (or the weekend) I hope to plant carrot (Touchon), parsnip (Yatesnip) and beetroot (Bulls Blood) seeds. We all need a little bit of vibrancy on our dinner plate.

In the weekend I planted the onion seeds (Pukekohe longkeeper). The plan is to harvest enough to see me through the year. Not sure if there were enough seeds in the packet. Got to start somewhere though :)