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hi. this page is where i want to keep track of my garden. in the spring and summer, i usually grow tomatoes, strawberries and watermelons but i've never been very good at keeping track of how much i end up growing, and i always feel like it ends up going to waste, so this summer i want to make better use of what it is that i grow.

09/12/25
well, it might be a late start, and whole month after i originally wanted to plant them, but i did put in some cucumber plants. it’s finally not freezing, although it’s still insanely windy. i hoping that might just make them stronger? bit of pipe dream, but i’m sure they’ll be okay. hopefully they’ll all pull through.
a couple of days earlier, i want to say on the 6th, maybe, i put in 8 capsicum plants. i loathe capsicum, but the guinea pigs love it, and so does my sibling, so i tolerate it. i think it’s such a horrible smell, though. they seem to be doing okay, which isn’t shocking. i’ve generally found them very resilient plant, even producing well past frost, which is so weird. i imagine it’ll be a while until they actually produce anything, however, as they’re still so small.
onto tomatoes. one is huge, but it is a whole month older than the others, so not shocking. three are doing okay, one is still a bit stunted and one is definitely dead. but they are the main reason i grow anything in the garden. i love home-grow tomatoes, they’re so sweet that i straight up refuse to eat store-bought ones now. the big one even has flowers, which means actual tomatoes soon. yay!
overall, everything went in fine. i guess there will be more updates when the plants are bigger, which will most likely be a month from now, but who knows? i can’t remember how long it takes for them to get bigger, especially because i’ve never grow the cucumbers before. but i imagine it’ll take a while.
p.s. oh, i also got my first strawberry, and it was just okay, so hopefully now that it’s summer, the extra sun can make them sweeter.

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17/11/25
oh my lord has the weather been insane here. it’s the middle of november and it’s been maybe a top of 13 today. It has consistently been cold all spring. climate change! it’s messing up the seasons so bad that we are getting autumn and winter weather two weeks out from summer. it’ s consistently been cold all spring.
the strawberries went in about a month ago, but naturally, with the miserable weather, they have produced perhaps 5 ripe fruits, all of which have gone to the bugs.
i really wanted to grow cucumbers and watermelons this season, but i’m not sure that they’ll be able to mature quick enough to bear any fruit (are cucumbers fruit-bearing? produce-bearing? whatever) at all, and might not even survive if i plant them yet, because we’re is still getting frosts overnight. as a last resort, i had to plant the snack cucumber seedling i naively bought over a month ago and i also planted 8 roma seedlings. tomatoes in the summer are an absolute essential to me so i’m hoping the romas will be okay, i’ve generally found them to be pretty hardy. However, i absolutely do not have any faith in the cucumber. if they survive it is a miracle and has nothing to do with me.
with no break in these below-25-degree days in sight, i suppose all i can hope for is either an entirely mild summer or a hot march. if it’s mild, then i won’t get my hopes too high, and if there’s a hot march, then it gives everything time enough to mature. hopefully i can update this with better news, and soon.

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28/09/25
it's been raining so much here, so i don't think i'll be able to get outside much in this weather, so i need to change the countdown. hopefully the weather can clear up soon, i'd really like to get some strawberries in the ground.

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12/08/25
this is the first post. it's still winter here in australia, so there isn't much that i can grow, except a patch of lettuces that seem to keep spawning out of thin air ^^.
so, mostly i think this page will still around for the next couple months, until i can actually start to get outside and do something.

basket with lettuce and tomatoes

this is the only photo i have from last years garden :) but it mostly looked like this for a whole summer

gromit, from wallace and gromit, gardening
5 rectangles

this is roughly the layout of my garden beds. there are four big ones and a narrow one at the end that i usually use to grow watermelon or pumpkins because it's near a wall, which keeps the vines mostly in check.