Tiddly Squat Farm

20/11/2023

The Farm has been a bit neglected in last few weeks, so this morning was spent weeding, harvesting and recovering what I could. Beetroot is tiny but will be grated into a salad. Garlic is hung to dry will be ready on Anzac Day. Baby Leeks will be lovely cooked on the BBQ with olive oil or sauted for a frittata. Carrots were being eaten by something so salvaged what we could and they will be roasted with garlic and be a nice accompaniment to steak, the part eaten ones have gone in the worm farm. Fennel bulb and onions will be sliced into salads and the ripe tomatoes were lucky they made it to the kitchen, but they will be in a salad tonight or tomorrow for Paul’s lunch. First zucchini coming through so fingers crossed!

04/10/2023

First Tiddly Squat Farm tiddly beet😆

29/08/2023

This mornings harvest, spinach, rocket, oak leaf lettuce, cos lettuce, peas and micro-greens. Lettuce and greens for my lunch and the peas will go in the homemade pasta sauce tonight.😋

19/08/2023

First leek and a tiny beetroot which we grated into a salad for dinner

04/08/2023

02/08/2023

Last of the Tiddly Squat carrots for the winter, now to get some sand and Tiddly Squat compost dug through and put the next crop in. Capsicum seedling growing in the background of the photo, found them in the worm farm 😄.
Broad beans lots of flowers but no bread beans ever appear (no bees left to pollinate 😡)and now covered in aphids so sprayed to stop spread to other crops and they will be pulled up on weekend, time to try something else in that spot. Watch this space!

24/07/2023

Good harvest today, it’s a shame I have to pull up 5 Swedes to make up enough for 1 serving for Meg because they didn’t quite grow as big as expected 😆

21/07/2023

Consistent pea harvesting and still lots more coming along, many don’t make it to the kitchen getting eaten in the way back along the lawn😆, some get to the counter then get eaten 😆and a few get steamed for dinner 😊. Also tomatoes growing again but not hot enough to ripen them so I make green tomato relish with them 😋

12/07/2023

This mornings harvest ready for dinner tonight, carrots are getting bigger and a more sensible shape 😆

08/07/2023

Todays harvest 😊

02/07/2023

After a few weeks fighting off the leaf eating caterpillars , at last we have two Broccoli coming through 😁

28/06/2023

Todays harvest, a few more cuddly carrots and some peas which will probably be eaten straight out of the pod!

27/06/2023

When our lawn mower blew up a few months ago, I should have gone shopping for the new one instead of sending Paul, and yes this would definitely be the model I would buy🤣

16/06/2023

I used these leeks in aFrittata two weeks ago and then put the ends in water, keep it tooped up and give them some sun and now new leeks growing

15/06/2023

Todays harvest cuddly carrots and finally a pea pod that might make it to the kitchen 🤔

15/06/2023

Haha I can still drink Gin in the garden!

08/06/2023

This would be Tink if I didn't stop her getting into the Veg patch!

08/06/2023

First peas picked and eaten before I got in the house 🤦🏻‍♀️ so fresh and sweet😋. One day these yummy little pods will make it to the kitchen 🤣

04/06/2023

Went to visit our friends Hawkesbury Juice Company today, got some delicious fresh cold-pressed juices and yummy pumpkin soup because it’s going to be a while until our pumpkin is ready to be soup 🤣

03/06/2023

George is very proud of todays harvest and our peas are coming along nicely, biggest test will be if they make it to the house or I eat them straight out of the pod when I pick them 😳

01/06/2023

Friday Fun

30/05/2023

Something is feasting on the Brussel Sprouts even though they are covered so researching organic options to get rid of them before they start on the Broccoli and Cauliflower too

29/05/2023

Tink is in Time Out!
Just spent 20mins putting dried egg shells around the vegetables to infuse calcium through the soil and deter slugs etc only to turn around and find the tiny terrorist eating it all 😡🐶

29/05/2023

Tiddly Squat Carrot #2, another weird shape but smells lovely, will he added to dinner tonight

25/05/2023

Pumpkin coming along nicely, little broccoli shoots coming up and Broad Beans making an appearance too

20/05/2023

Planted fennel, onions and rhubarb today. Also planted a cos lettuce that I put in water after we used the leaves and some more perennial basil shoots which re-root in days if you put them in water. Also found some broccoli or cauliflower shooting up in the worm farm so planted those, you never know!
Pumpkin and beans coming along nicely!

19/05/2023

Funny and true!

16/05/2023

The patch to the right of the leeks and garlic was supposed to be onions but the seeds didn't take and the left was supposed to be Parsnips but again the seeds didn't take. So its time to bite the bullet and buy onion seedlings and plant them either side of the leeks, they can be planted quite closely together so going to get a few packs so we can have ongoing crop of onions right through to summer. I have given up on Parsnips as we cant get the seedlings anywhere. The boots are Merry Boots, Beetroot colour, the most comfortable boots I have ever worn!

13/05/2023

Spent the morning in the farm weeding and repotting some herbs, moving things and covering crops. We now have 7 flowers on the pumpkin so hopefully we will get a crop. Beans and Brussels moved to field #2 for deeper soil and the tomato seedlings from the worm farm thinned out and put in the palette garden. White cabbage moth grubs are eating my Brussels and broccoli so they have been covered to protect them, all had a good dose of my magic fertilizer last night. All needs a good water later because it’s been warm and sunny here today.

05/05/2023

Our first beans making an appearance, hopefully they will have a big growth spurt!