one of the things i love about daylight savings is there is still daylight when i get home from work and because of this, i have more time to tend to my veggie patch. with the combination of warmer temperature, longer daylight and my working worm farm, my little veggie patch is striving.
i found some out of date tomato seeds at the beginning of the year so i liberally sprinkled them on the veggie patch at the end of autumn knowing full well that they will never germinate. out of my surprise, these seeds started germinating at the beginning of spring. i had no intention of growing tomatoes in our backyard anymore because i know we'll never get to eat them. the resident possum will probably get to them before us. but i started watering them a little bit more, giving them a weekly dose of worm tea, they started growing taller and taller. then i started putting a stake next to each plant and tied them to the stakes. this week they started flowering.
apart from tomatoes, i'm also growing chillies, coriander, thyme, rhubarb, kale, english spinach and silver beet in my little veggie patch. veggies and plants mr possum doesn't like. they are all safe. the father in law planted a persimmon tree few years ago and we've never seen it flower but this spring, they started flowering and we now have some little persimmon fruits hanging on the tree too. i wonder if they'll survive mr possum?
i'm wrecking my brain trying to think of a way to protect my precious tomatoes from our resident possum with no luck. now all i can do is to compete with them and harvest the tomatoes before mr possum gets to them. bring it on mr possum!
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