Growing vegetables urgently
As you know there has been flooding further south of us, and that seems to be where most of our vegetables come from. The supermarket shelves are either bare or filled with very expensive vegetables, so it was with some urgency that I began planting out some seeds this weekend. ..... This was the jungle that I started with.... During the wet season only certain plants will grow and so I had let them run rather wild. The loofah had started heading over towards the fence. Normally we don't started planting regular vegetables until about March, but with the prices in the store I want to get an early start. It does seem a little cooler lately - definitely less humid, which is a good sign. I cut the loofah away from the fence and threw it up onto the shade cloth. It can grow there and then back in a line on top of the pigeon peas towards the back fence. These vegetables are going to listen this time - lots of straight lines anti...