Back to the Garden

G’day… 🙂
First of all, a quick soap update! Snap of the pattern I did dropping the colours in. I really like it but my hands itch to get in and do some manual swirling haha

Thats a kilo and a half of raspberries!
I went to my friends place yesterday and wow – their berry patch is HUGE.
What is pictured above is scarcely a third of what was picked!
Plan to turn it into Jam… maybe tomorrow?

Today I picked the first of the baby carrots. My method of thinning – wait until they are edible 🙂
I also went bandicooting for some new potatoes! Can’t wait to steam them up!

Christmas afternoon I did some mulching. And transplanted some new lettuce seedlings.

That self seeded tomato is getting so big and sprawly – oh well. I don’t need that space so it can do what it likes for now! (See why we didn’t have kids? No disciplinary skills)

The feverfew is also running riot. But a pretty riot.

The corn… sigh. Its hanging in there but all over the place when it comes to size/development. Debating on putting in another small patch as a backup.

I found this tomato plant in the carrot patch so I transplanted it. Now it looks sad! Reckon it will perk up soon.

This tomato patch now has lots of silverbeet and self seeded tomatoes.
Lots more transplanting to do at some point soon.

This was the sad looking lateral that I popped in – its really come along well considering how pathetic it looked back at the start!

I want to pull up all the onion and leek.
I think they are all pretty ready. Plus I need that plot!

Silverbeet!! Wow. Seems like everything that the birds pruned, sprung back brilliantly!

These tomatoes have done well too… they were barely an inch high when planted out!

Yay – zucchini

Potato patch

Rhubarb

Carrots and beetroot

Meanwhile, back in the hothouse – lots more self seeded tomatoes trying to take over the basil patch

Growing well – but no colour 🙁
Happily found a number of Russian Black tomatoes started

The cucumber seem like they are taking forever to get going this season!

Yellow capsicum babies

Lots of decent sized passionfruit – courtesy of Tentacular

I did a bit of weeding and watering today. Wind was too strong to put the sprinklers on. The water just got blown away!!

Foraging for sweet treats –

I raided the basil patch again and made up another batch of pesto!!

Hope you are all having a nice relaxing time between Christmas and New Year!
Cheers!