Garden Share Collective - wrapping up March

Time to link up with other gardeners around the world for the end of March Garden Share Collective.  All the best Liz for a safe and healthy delivery, next month we will have an extra little host.....  thanks for continuing to host this for us avid gardeners.
Harvesting
I am mainly harvesting herbs right now, and seem to have been able to maintain a few herbs throughout the year which is really nice.  Garlic chives are in flower, and look so pretty.

 Parsley, which I use a lot of, struggles through the wet season, but I had a couple of little pots make it through, so will continue to keep some in pots, and maybe the ones in the besa bricks will last through as well.  The main thing is to have good drainage. My little herb pots that I planted for my stepsons are filling in - the parsley seed is taking its time though as usual. The pots were atually started peeling around the top edge, so I scraped that off and painted a lip around the top.

The lettuces that I sowed as a quick in between crop are almost ready to start harvesting - I snip the outside leaves as they continue to grow.  Baby lettuces.

Joy of joys I also have an eggplant!  This plant has struggled in the other wicking bed, and suddenly without any warning started to produce this lovely dark orb of goodness.  I hope this is just the start of good things to come.  I have started some more eggplant seeds - am pretty sure this wicking bed can support two plants.  I know I can definitely gobble down what two plants produce.

I have been growing sprouts in my new multi-tier sprouter, and have really enjoyed that. I grew snow peas  as microgreens in the top, and they do so much better inside than they did outside, but still not the lush growth that others seem to manage..... Here the snow peas are in the lower layer, but I will add the spicy mix to our salad tonight and then the snow peas will move to the top to shoot up unrestricted.  First I grew the smaller sprouts for sandwiches, and then I grew some mung beans and lentils which were awesome in a  frittata.  While my garden struggles through the bugs and humidity I can still grow some lovely organic greens.... I got my sprouter from MrFothergills

 The snow peas out in the garden are certainly happy. Yum.

Last month on my to do list was my big shopping trip

Hanging strawberry pots - I bought these small pots that fit flush against the fence, and they are self watering (have a little reservoir of water at the bottom).  Once I started re-potting I realised that from 2 plants I now have five.... the dichondra looks pretty hanging down from the pots, but I hope their roots dont interfere with the strawberries, so far they seem happy.  I grew those from seeds, I am always impressed when a tiny seed produces something.

Soaker hose - gosh have you ever tried to remove an old soaker hose?  It went under plants with huge root systems, and there are areas where I didn't want to disturb the plants, so just cut it off and left it there... Where it crosses the path I have just wound it with electrical tape so that I am not watering the paths.  No need to try it out yet though as it never stops raining.   I am glad the drought stricken areas to the West of us are getting rain, the farmers are happy once again.
I used up lots of mulch, and planted out two herb pots, and got my veggie seeds in.

This little garden helper is hanging onto my leftover from last years tomato plant - hopefully by next month my new tomato plants will have a few tomatoes on them....

To do for the next month

I hope this next month will contain lots of harvesting.  The best way to garden in the tropics is to grow intensively and harvest early, I just hope I haven't started my planting too early..