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Heute #NordicWalking Runde gedreht mit dem Ziel ein #Zone2 Training zu machen. Das hat nur so semi geklappt, denn die meiste Zeit war ich in #Zone1 . War ein schöner, flotter Spaziergang aber es gibt ein ordentlichen Gap zwischen dieser Nordic Walking intensität und meinem Pulsbereich wenn ich so langsam wie möglich jogge.

Idee war eigentlich eine von 3 Cardio Trainingseinheiten die Woche mit Nordic Walking zu absolvieren, um Gelenke/Bänder/Sehnen etwas zu schonen. Aber vielleicht muss da doch was anderes her. Radfahren vielleicht, bei Minusgraden leider auch nicht ganz ohne.

Alex is catching up on sleep Jan 19, 2023

First tomato! January 19th, almost a month later than the earliest I’ve had something from this variety, “Gold Nugget.” I got the seeds from Southern Harvest in Tasmania, who are great at recommending varieties that do well in cooler climates. I’ve had Gold Nugget before Christmas in the past, but the slow rainy spring and early summer really delayed things. Ah well. There’ll surely be more along soon.

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Alex is catching up on sleep Jan 13, 2023

Anyway, I’m going to leave the other spuds there for now, and attempt to give them a bit more water. Fingers crossed.

But if you were wondering why #MinimumChips is looking so scant lately, this is why.

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Alex is catching up on sleep Jan 13, 2023

So, what did I get from 5 months of garden-bed space? These three spuds, which I’d estimate at a bit over half a kilo.

I’m not sure what they needed but didn’t get. Warmth earlier in the season would have helped, I’m sure. They weren’t bogged down by the rains as they were in a raised bed and hilled up besides, and the soil isn’t clay-y. In digging up the bed it was clear that the last few weeks have dried the soil out a lot, even though I’ve been watering. I guess it all runs off or evaporated from the hilling-up. Still, it should have been ok.

I didn’t amend the soil particularly, other than doing my hilling up with sifted soil from the next bed over, where prunings and other garden waste have been rotting down for years; it had more organic matter than the bed I started with, but wasn’t what I’d call incredibly rich compost. Nor did I do a pH test, though the weeds growing there (chickweed, fumitory, wild radish, black nightshade, cleavers, the odd dandelion) suggest it’s pretty neutral veggie garden soil. It’s not like spuds are usually super fussy, in my experience.

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Alex is catching up on sleep Jan 13, 2023

So you know how there’s a potato shortage across Victoria at present? I present: my first potato harvest.

I planted Dutch Cream seed potatoes back in August, in ditches in one of my veggie beds, then hilled them up with extra soil through spring, to a total depth of about 40cm. Just this last week or so they’ve been starting to yellow and die back, so I figured there’d be some to harvest.

I started by bandicooting around under the plants, but in the end I pulled a couple of them up and dug down properly. Here’s the space where they were, about 50x60cm.

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