Bed Naming Conventions
In the main vegie garden we have seven circles – one central (C0) and then 6 more in a circle around it, numbering starting from the closest to the house. And then we have another few beds, and a few more on the drawing board.

Plan of Plantings - not to scale!
C0
Planted: this week snowpeas on trellis, and about a month ago about 5 brassicas – broc, cauli, cabbage mix
Volunteers: kale, coriander. parsnip, strawberries.
C1
Planted: mixed brassicas, parsley – flat leaf going to seed, curled in fine form, Tiny Tim cherry tomato still producing, lettuce going to seed (for the rabbits)
Volunteer: parsnips galore, chervil
C2
Planted: ready to eat – carrots, beetroot, spring onions, planted this week – garlic. ready to come out – beans, strawberries to relocate
Volunteer: strawberry runners
C3
Planted: ready in a month – carrots, beetroot, Bellstar tomato
Volunteer: no room – tight plantings!
C4
Planted: this week – garlic, waiting to ripen – tomatillos, ready to eat – celery
Volunteer: parsnips, calendula

View down the garden - C1 in foreground, C0 directly below/behind
C5
Planted: brassicas, kale
Volunteer: borage, cherry tomato (too late though)
C6
Planted: brassicas,
Volunteer: cherry tomato ripening now, borage, chives
C7 (closest to new chicken shed)
Planted: strawberries, blueberries
Volunteer: weeds – couch grass
Under clothesline
more brassicas
Side of driveway
more brassicas, snow peas.
Orchard picking now:
Lots of apples – fuji, gala, pink lady
Pears – the last winter cole
Persimmons
Lemons
Over Back Fence
Butternut pumpkins about 15 cm long. If the weather gods smile they might mature.
Front Yard
Strawberries – very few and the birds are beating us to them
Notes/Learning from this summary:
Yup, we have a few different growing areas!
Possibly we have more than enough brassicas, partly due to some red ones that lost their label from my regular seedling supplier, so they were a freebie. They are now labelled “Random Brassica”, I’m hoping they might be purple broccoli. But I’m thinking another 3 broccoli planted now will extend the season further…
Planned beds – when we remove the old chicken shed, two or three will snuggle in between that side fence and the Williams pear. And another between the nashi pear and citrus grove as that is wonderfully sunny even at this time of year compared to say C5.
And I need to think about not planting brassicas next February in so many places – a few too many beds have them which risks disease buildup. It was an issue of wanting to plant where the tomatoes were, and not having the centre bed properly cleared.