This weekend has been rather warm, considering we are now half way through autumn. Over the Saturday and Sunday, we have had temperatures over 25 degrees Celsius, and today is almost as warm. While this sort of temperature is enjoyable, I am still waiting for the colder temperatures to start properly!

In terms of actual gardening, I haven’t done a huge amount. The main thing that I did was pot up some seedlings that were ready to be potted up. This is included broccoli, leeks, cauliflower and the seedlings from the bee food mix that I sowed seed for around the same time as the other seeds. They are all growing well, as are previous seedlings.

For more advanced plants, the tomatoes are still flowering, with a few more tomatoes appearing, no doubt helped along by the warm weather. I must admit that sowing these tomatoes was a bit of an experiment. The seeds were sown around Christmas and I was curious to see how many actual tomatoes I could get before it gets too cold here in Sydney. So far, I have five or six fruits present.

My broad beans are a slight mixed picture. Some are already starting to flower, which is really good. Others are a little sorry looking due to being eaten, probably by caterpillars. I’ll sow some more next weekend. While the peas haven’t been eaten by anything, they don’t see to be growing as quickly as last year, but there is still plenty of growing time between now and the start of spring in September, so I’m not too stressed by this.

One thing that is going well at the moment is my Echeveria ‘experiment’. A couple of weeks ago, I took a few leaves off my son’s plant, so that I could get a few more plants. Four of the five leaves now have the first signs of little new plants appearing. I find this really fascinating how a plant can regrow from a leaf and that it. Not every plant can, but it is still really interesting.

That is my weekend in gardening. Not busy, but still an enjoyable, and very welcome, break from the studying and computer screen!