Spring Onions do grow fast!

I am not a spring onion person. I just don't like the taste, but I have decided to plant 2 spring onion ends last week, so that on the rare occasion I need a small amount in my cooking, I won't have to buy a big bunch from the shop! I am amazed at how quick and easy they grow!

The little carrot seedlings seem to like their new home inside my mini greenhouse too!

Carrots and Spring Onions

We have just stepped into Winter here in Sydney, and our Autumn had been as cold as around 10°C during late night/early morning to as warm as mid 20s around midday! The past 2 days or so has been one of those warmer days with midday temperature in mid 20s, so I took the opportunity to do some late Autumn planting!

I read that Autumn is the season for plants to establish their root systems. They do most of their growing under ground. Apparently, vegetables seedlings such as cauliflower, brussels sprouts, broccoli, spinach; root vegetables such as garlic, leeks, onions; and most kinds of lettuce will do well if planted in Autumn. I just hope that mine will still do well even though they were planted at the end of Autumn! :P

My Autumn selection for my part shade south facing 9th floor balcony consists of:

• "Little Fingers" carrots, brussels sprouts and rocket seedlings bought from Bunnings, and
• 2 spring onion ends leftover from a recent purchase from a fruit & vegetable store.

The labels that came with the seedlings say that the carrot & rocket require full sun to part shade, while the brussels sprouts requires full sun. hmmm.... I wonder if the brussels sprouts will grow on my balcony.

Carrot seedlings & spring onion ends in their new home next
to a new addition of the native Kangaroo Paws in pink!

My back was a little sore after planting my carrots seedlings & the spring onion ends, and I haven't decided on a container to plant the brussels sprouts and rockets, so it will have to be another day for those remaining seedlings!

Arm knitted chunky scarf

Recently, I have discovered a fun and very quick way to knit using your arms instead of knitting needles!

So, to try it out, I bought some Moda Vera Clermont yarns from Spotlight. It is 75% wool, 25% polyamide, and comes in 4 colour mixes: Purple Mix which I bought, as well as the Red Mix on the left of the photo below, Pink Mix on the right and a Rainbow Mix not in the photo.

I have read somewhere that you will need 2 balls of the Clermont yarns to arm knit a scarf. However, I ended up with some leftover yarns from the second ball as I didn't want mine to be too long. Here is the video clip that taught me how to arm knit:

My arm knitting in progress...

...and this is what I knitted!

 

I am now a little tempted to french knit different combination of yarns and arm knit them into more chunky scarves!