Signs of Spring

When you walk into the gardens at the moment, stop for a moment at the entrance, and take a good sniff and you are sure to get the sweet smell of the violets growing under the trees.

There are other sign of spring's arrival. The garden plots are starting to take off and shape up as gardeners prepare for hopefully a good growing season ahead.  Here are some plots in the gardens that caught my eye...

Poppies and Beet

Tulip and coriander

Calendula and Calvolo Nero

Alyssum - a wonderful host plant for good predator insects

Garlic in the plots and community beds really going for it and well
insulated with the Unitec grounds leaf litter

A healthy section of lettuces in one of the community patches

The community patch of broad beans.

Broad beans are now flowering and the bumble bees and bees busy..soon we will see the pods form

Purple Broccoli - the broccoli patch is just about finished but I did find this
late runner but beautiful head - isn't it magic?

The chocolate red foliage of the beetroots look so glossy in the community patch

Last working day we weeded the onions and leek beds planted the previous work day  and planted the last of the onions.  Three rows of Maori potatoes were planted.  We are not planting early potatoes this year.