If you live around Brisbane, you will have experienced the torrential downpour that we had on Tuesday. It was the most rain in a 24 hour period since 2001, and caused mayhem. In my experience, when we have extreme weather it usually affects suburbs or the surrounding countryside. This time, however, the city copped the whole lot of it. Living 8km from the city centre, my apartment (and therefore plants) took a hammering. The force of the rain was so strong that it ripped most of the leaves from my chillies. The other, smaller leaved plants fared better.
It was another bad week for the spring onions. Even with the addition of seven new plants, the yield was a paltry 5 grams for the week.
I've decided to take a new approach to the harvest of my garlic chives, spring onions and afro parsley. Instead of harvesting all that I have available, I will only take one gram each of afro parsley and garlic chives and five grams of spring onions each week (parsley and spring onion day is Saturday, chive day is Thursday). This will continue until either a) I run out of crops, b) they grow to an optimum height (spring onions and chives) or c) the afro parsley starts going white (which it does if I leave it too long).
The amounts harvested per week are intentionally below the weekly average so far, as I hope to have some fuller looking plants. I'll keep you informed!
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