April/May Garden Update

A couple of weeks ago I went and pulled out the last of the zucchini.
The pumpkins grew four really good sized pumpkins. I don't know the variety, but they are the ones with a high moisture content. Next year I'll try planting something like a butternut that has more solid flesh.  I've pulled the pumpkin plant out now, so we can actually mow around the garden.
Capsicums still producing, as are lettuces, silverbeet, beetroot and the bok choi? is nearly ready.

The celery got overwhelmed by the zucchini (note to self, next year put zucchini in it's own bed!)  But now it seems to be sprouting out the side

The melon is still fruiting, the large one in the picture was rotten inside because I left it too long, after picking the last one too early.   I think it's too cold now for the rest to mature.

Herbs:
The basil is going to seed, everything else is doing well. The mint is taking over the garden, I knew I should have listened to the little voice telling me to put it elsewhere!

Fruit trees:
Something ate the leaves off of the apricot.  The lemon is laden with fruit that is turning yellow.  I've fertilised both.

Seedlings:
Mia and I planted a bunch into punnets.  We left them too long and the slugs and portugese millipedes ate them.  So we dealt with those pests:

And replanted right into the garden:

I'm not so flash at planting seeds, I neeeeeeed a greenhouse or cloche.

So this is what the garden looks like right now:

Basil Harvest

We had heaps, mid April, I picked it and made lots of pesto to freeze.