The seasons march on

6 July 2020

So much for saying we will slow down and get a break over winter. Has turned out to be more wishful thinking.

We have started removing the grass pathways between the garden beds by the tunnel house. When done, this will leave one big bed but we will be able to fit in about another 8 possibly 9 crop rows, so will be well worth the effort.

Garlic is about knee-high now and hopefully we will get a rust free crop this year with the new way of planting. (it will so good to actually have enough to sell again this year along with the elephant garlic.

Almond flowers are just starting to open and catkins forming on the hazelnuts.

We have started our weekly stall at Hokowhitu Village and will trial this for 6mths to see how it goes. Salad leaf mixes, microgreens and carrots are still the backbone of our fresh produce with seasonal additions as they come on. Our range of award winning sauce, chutney & jam is available at all markets we attend.

We have planted our first 396 chilli seeds (mainly super hots) for the season more to be done in a few weeks. Hope to get enough started this year for our sauce requirements, sell a few seedlings over spring and sell a few ripe pods during the year as well.

We have applied to book a table at this years NZ Hot Sauce Festival 31 October in Auckland so hopefully will have our chill range up there. I am currently working on a new sauce using only yellow pods - aim is to have a super hot sauce with a great base flavour, I might need a few taste testers though because I can’t handle it too hot LOL :-)

Only a few weeks to go and it will be time to start planting our zucchini etc seed - boy the year has flown.