Summer in Jeff's garden

[JeffinNZ]

Team.

Whilst most of you are hunkering down for winter we are basking in summer down here. This is the first poppy of the season. I have hundreds this year as I was very liberal with the seeds:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Other%20stuff/Poppy.jpg

This photo was taken on 27th of October of my 'new' hothouse I built and the larger part of my vege garden:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Other%20stuff/Garden1.jpg

This photo of the same area was taken two days ago. What a difference a few weeks makes. The spuds, corn and carrots are doing well out of doors with lettuces, cabbages, bean etc else where in the section:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Other%20stuff/Garden2.jpg

And here are the girls having lunch on the lawn at the weekend being supervised by Bella dog and Griffin cat:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Other%20stuff/Lunch.jpg

And finally, here I am with my girls in the Restart Mall recently. Ma Brown was visiting from down south:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/JeffinNZ/Other%20stuff/Restart.jpg

Hope you enjoy.

[Dean D.]

Thanks for sharing Jeff, great pictures!

[**oneshot**]

My wife is jealous that your flowers are blooming. Ours are getting ready to get burried in the snow.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Looks good! I have really gotten into fall/winter gardening the past two years. It is amazing what you can grow, even without a greenhouse or a cold frame, as long as daytime temps get up into the 40s.

[Maven]

Sure Jeff, rub it in!

[JeffinNZ]

You could come live here Paul. There's lot of vacant land now. :-(

[1Shirt]

Good looking family Jeff!
1Shirt!

[x101airborne]

Hey, thanks for the pics! Great looking family. Good job on the garden.
How could one get some poppy seeds? I have never seen them for sale, but I know some farmers grow them somewhere. What do you do with them? They are a really pretty flower, but other than the canned stuff, I dont know what to do with poppyseeds.

[MtGun44]

Looks like you will have a good crop. We have a solar powered clothes dryer much like
yours, too. Very unusual around here any more.

What are your temp extremes like - what is a normal winter day high and low temp and a
normal summer day high and low temp? I really don't know what the climate is like in NZ.

Bill

[starmac]

What is that green stuff in your yard???? lol

[reloader28]

WOW, great looking garden and great looking family. Our garden is 75x50 and thinking of going bigger. Took out over 450lbs in potatoes and 40 squash this year and they're safely down in the root cellar now. Its been down to -3* here the last couple days and snow on the ground.
Been making jerky and summer sausage with the deer we got this year.
And feeding the fire in the stove.

[JeffinNZ]

Hey, thanks for the pics! Great looking family. Good job on the garden.
How could one get some poppy seeds? I have never seen them for sale, but I know some farmers grow them somewhere. What do you do with them?

Originally from the garden of a friend. Fairly common here. Possibly not the variety you used to see in Afghanistan however.


Looks like you will have a good crop. We have a solar powered clothes dryer much like
yours, too. Very unusual around here any more.

What are your temp extremes like - what is a normal winter day high and low temp and a
normal summer day high and low temp? I really don't know what the climate is like in NZ.

Bill

We air dry our laundry whenever possible. The only way to go.

Temps around here are fairly mild. Light frosts in winter, up to 30C in the summer.

[MtGun44]

Sounds like a nice climate!

The wife has never let me purchase a clothes dryer (machine) until a few
years ago, still only uses it very rarely. I like the sun dried smell and feel,
too.

Bill

[firefly1957]

Thank you for the look at your area of the world just think white for were i am about three inches on the ground .

[scottiemom]

great pictures-lovely family! I had forgotten what sunshine looks like-going to be a long winter!

[JeffinNZ]

Thanks Janet. It was lovely to have my mother visit. She's a great old girl. BEST baker in the world. Ma Brown's Pumpkin scones.....hhhhhhmmmmm.

[ovendoctor]

awesome pictures jeff
they will be nice to reference in the middle of winter here
38'' of snow so far with 262''+++ to go
out door shooting is on hold for a wile

Doc.