Scarecrow's Garden Journal Notes: May 2014:

Growth around the garden in May 2014:
1 Winter Salad Bed (potted)...3 steps from the back door!
2 Sweet Potato cuttings taken for next season.
3 Mammoth Melting Climbing Snow Peas flowering as they reach for sunshine out of the shade from the house.
4 60 Day Cauliflowers already harvested! Yum!
Temperatures this month:
Lowest Min 2C
Highest Min 12.5C
Lowest Max 11C
Highest Max 23.3C
51mm Rainfall
Rain: Year To Date: 184.5mm (Average YTD: 119.1mm)
Comparison with other years:
May Average is 31.1mm:
2014 51mm
2013 48 mm
2012  9mm
2011 40mm
2010 55.8mm
2009 11.5mm
2008 49mm
2007 30.2mm
Weather Highlights?
The month began with cold wet days...brightened up to beautiful Autumn weather but by the end of the month we were back to cool wet conditions!
During May there were 22 days that began with humidity levels over 80%. Now we head into what is being predicted to be a dry winter.
Harvest Tally:
Doesn't include Greens fed to the chooks on a daily basis or herbs picked for use in the kitchen for cooking or tea making. For Salads, Juice and Stirfries I have been picking Lettuce, Kale, Lebanese Cress, Spring Onions, Parsley, Silverbeet, Sorrel and Sweet Potato Leaves which are not always weighed.
Beetroot 189g
Bok Choi 77g
Cauliflower 2598g
Kale 375g + much more fed to chooks
Radish 189g
Silverbeet 283g + much more fed to chooks
Sweet Paprika 784g

Total Veg Harvest for May 3.8Kgs
Apples Pink Lady 1176g
Pears 450g

Total Fruit Harvest for May 1.6Kg
Total Eggs for May:  11 eggs.
3 From the 7 Farmyard Bantams (from one of the little new girls!!!)
8 From the 3 Faverolles 
 The first tiny eggs from the new bantams
The Greens planted in the Bath Tub Bed were struggling in the cooler conditions until I popped over a covering of clear plastic and growth took off.
Work on the garden around the new chook food shed is continuing with ideas falling into place as it develops. Next is a delivery of new bare rooted fruit trees and some seedling fruit trees moved to the area to extend the orchard or what is becoming more of a food forest.
May of Previous Years:
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007

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