Hello after an absence of six, yes six whole months of no blog news. There must be a reason you say. Yes there really is. If you have been following our blogs over the past year you will see some irregularities. This farmer has a life. Not really! Actually many things have been going on here at Kirup Valley. What? Well we have been busy picking and packing the fruits of our labor. We also had a shutdown of all activity for a period of 9 weeks where the farmer had to leave the country to go places where bananas grow cheaper than in Australia. This farmer went to Vanuatu. In the meantime the weeds were growing like crazy as weeds will do.
Anyhow back to the farm information business at hand. Onions and leeks were planted at the end of Summer here and now they are in full harvest mode. Everyday bunches of onions are being harvested by hand and being sold to the various outlets we have.. A local Fruit and Veg shop stocks them every week. Our famous wholesaler Elvis is crying out for MORE every week. We even send them to the farmers markets located in Perth. We are harvesting Green & Red Thai Chili and a few Jalapeno's now. We slashed several thousand plants of Jalapenos recently to make more room for next seasons crops. If you are wondering what we are planning on growing this upcoming 2011-2012 season here is the list. Not the entire list as we have to place a disclaimer here. We have the seed on hand but sometimes the vagaries of farming collide and germination is not to great.
So to the LIST: Not in any methodical order at all.
Zuchini
Yellow -Long
Green
Lebanese 3 Varieties - Light green color
Lebanese - White
Zucchini - Spaghetti type
Round Ball- Green
Yellow Straight neck - Warty
Squash List
Yellow Crook Neck
White Patty Pan
Delica - Looks like Jap Pumpkin ( for those who follow this Blog in USA see Kabocha .
Giant Pink Banana
Gem Squash - S. African Round
Tromboncino
Sweet Dumpling - Acorn type
Beans
Green Romano Beans - Flat type - French .
Yellow Butter Bean-French
Purple string bean-
Big Borlotto Bean
Pumpkins
Sampson
Jarrahdale
Jap
Jackaroo
Orange Amber ( Small orange eating type)
No Butternut or Halloween type grown
Onions
Red Round Variety ( Not growing any Brown onions.) sold in kilo
White Lisbon -Spring Onion type - smaller than Torpedo sold in bunch
Torpedo -Red Italian and French sold in bunch of three or four
Shallots - Dutch Gourmet sold by kilo
White Onion- Flat- Italian Gourmet sold as each
Onion Bergamo- Brown Flat- Italian Gourmet sold as each
White Giant Fresh peeled onion - French Gourmet sold as each
Purple Spring Onions- Bunches
Red Mini- Gourmet in Punnets
Brown Mini- Gourmet in Punnets
Barletta- bunch
Spring onion- green
Beet Root
Chioggia- Bullseye
Red
Gold Beet
Sweet Corn
Bi-color - 2 plantings only
Yellow -2 plantings only
White Sweet - 2 plantings
Corn Maize- for chicken feed
Corn Maize - for ground polenta
Hot Chili
Yellow Jalapeno
Green Jalapeno
Birdseye - in punnets 125 gr
Thai Chili- in Bags 250 gr.;1Kg & 5 kg
Togarashi Chili, also known as Takanotsume - in 125 gr punnets 250 gr bags, 500 gr bags
Brimstone- 1kg bag & 5kg box
Poblano Chili- Mexican- Limited amount
Eggplant
Black- medium size
Lavender- medium
Purple - Long
Purple- Round
Purple- Fingers
White - medium
Green Thai
De Barbetane - long French dark
Black ball - Japanese for Tempura.
Watermelons
Seedless
Seeded - lg size
Capsicum
Yellow Long Bullnose
French Marconi Bullnose- Heirloom
Hungarian sweet Bell Paprika
French -Frying
Tomatoes
Mixed medley Grape -Two colors in Punnets only -Bulk orders
Cherry - in punnets only
Golf ball - salad type
Large - French
Yellow Tomato- Lg.
Roma Tomatoes
Regular- med sized
Mini Roma
San Marzano
Gold Mini Roma
Gold cherry
Cucumbers
Crystal White
Long Green
Lebanese
Pickling
Other Category
Parsley- two types - leafy & curly
Coriander aka Cilantro
Dill
Basil- Genovese
Basil- Thai
Okra- green
So you see the list is extensive and exhaustive. If you have read it this far I congratulate you for have more patience than I have typing it all out. Well the seeds are all here and in place. Now it is a matter of getting the ground ready and putting them into the ground. Who said farming was easy. Market garden farming is not easy.
Until next time
Farmer John
