Yes, It is hard to believe that time flies so fast. Spring in Japan and what season we are having here in Melbourne - I really don't know!!
Maybe summer during the day and early fall at night.
The calendar says fall, but the daytime temps are summer.
What a crap year we've had so far for the garden. The spinach in spring was great and the first crop of komatsuna was good.
The cherries started out great and then we had to pick them early again. The rest of the garden has basically been a write off.
I put nets up over the apple trees and every once in a while a bird somehow still finds its way in. This morning I had lorikeets handing on the nets and pushing them down and then they are able to eat the apples near the nets. Must be time to start picking them.
Watermelons - put a couple of plants in and didn't get anything so I went out with a q-tip and did the pollination myself. Was happy to see the first fruit which was promptly eaten by something.
So I ended up covering the ones that are still growing and hopefully the weather and pests will not ruin them before I get a chance to harvest them.
The prices of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets here this year are just unreal - really high. Eggplant at A$9.90 a kilo, green peppers at around A$9, tomatoes about the same. I cut back the tomato plants and they are growing again - one even has a few flowers on it and maybe I might get a couple tomatoes..yet.
The best tomato this year was a cherry tomato that came up 'naturally' in the front yard and I left it. Had to put a net up over that as well as the birds were them too too.
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) in one of our poly tunnels.