Look what today brought!! Lots of rain!
I haven’t gotten back to the second day of photos from our recent hike. My parents due in for a visit Monday so am suffering through some housework haha.
The gutters overflowed so Jeff got out there in the wet and cleared things out.
I picked some snowpeas and carrots for tonights stir fry. Yum
I got in and weeded the tomatoes – the slow growing patch – and mulched with almost the remaining amount of hay we had.
The corn – all at odd sizes which is annoying. Still a mystery if we are going to get any this season.
Zucchinis are just appearing everywhere!
Sweet little marigolds in the back garden and I have spotted a flower or two on the cape gooseberries! Yay
Almost daily digging up potatoes for the dinner table. They look like they still have a way to go before being ready for a full harvest.
And the Jurassic Rhubarb!!
Cute little golden nugget pumpkins seem to be doing well in their patch. At the rate of this summer they might be the only pumpkins we get this season!
I’ll need to pull that rogue broccoli out of the beetroot/carrot patch. Regardless.. this patch is doing so well again.
Although the birds are digging in it and covering the beetroots haha. Little rotters. Eating all my worms no doubt
Green tomatoes everywhere… Agonising waiting.
This basil took forever to take off.. but now doing pretty well! It didn’t like the cold start to the season.
Bees hard at work
So many lovely pears – at least I hope they will be lovely.
The second potato patch! I haven’t even gone digging in this one yet!
Happy to see a couple of the nasturtium seeds took, in the mostly failed Hugelkultur beds. The birds keep insisting on kicking off most of the decent topsoil. Rather annoying!
The main patch from the other side… always looks rather nice after Jeff has mowed everything!
Still got some raspberries out there. Will be nice to have some fresh ones to share with my parents.
As ever, when picking raspberries there are a number of chooks stalking the perimeter of the nets like little velociraptors!
Back in the hothouse – more food that is not ready… like tomatoes.
Ok – this one nearly ready…
The yellow long capsicums are slowly changing colour… looking forward to these
And this ‘Mad Hatter’ capsicum… what a puzzle! Its taller than me! (Almost) And its only just started to form fruit.
The basil has sprung back since the last pesto event. Time to make more?
I was looking back on the back garden photos from 6 months ago and its such a transformation!
Still some work to do but loving the new area.
You can barely see the rock spiral!
The dill grew super fast!
Seems like I always have a tomato jungle doesn’t it??
Love the sunflowers!
Time for the feverfew to be cut back. I was hoping the flowers would stay nice until my parents arrived. Oh well…
So… that about wraps up the garden stroll!
Tomorrow will finish off the cleaning up, and as a point, clear the dining room table so we have some place civilised to eat together!
(Jeff and I just sit in the lounge at the coffee table and watch a movie or a series over dinner)
Have a wonderful weekend everyone
Cheers
Hoping the rain [even a little bit] helps the fire situation!
The garden looks wonderful. So many fresh veggies. The monster plant makes me think of raspberry rhubarb crisp. Summer in Oregon, USA won’t come around until July.
I enjoy seeing all of your photo’s.
mmmm – I think what you call a ‘crisp’ we might call a ‘crumble’ Yum!! You’ve got quite the wait until summer – its nice for a rest but by the time it gets here we are more than ready!! Enjoy the summer photos 🙂
Re fire… there has been some rain about the place which has been good… but a run of 45C days and wind didn’t help. Canberra/ACT has been pummelled recently. 🙁
The garden looks awesome! Glad to know eating dinner in from of the tv is not u inquest to my side of the world. 🤣
Thanks re garden! 🙂
haha – We reserve the dining table when we have guests so we can look civilised 😀
Jeff and I are lucky with our flexible lifestyle so I suppose the dinner table isn’t the only time we have together in a normal working week – so Netflix it is!! 😀 😀
Just finished reading an in-depth article about jumping worms and the damage they are doing to the American forests, let alone suburbia gardens and yards. Had no idea that worms first arrived here from Europe. Thought they were just a “thing” everywhere. Well these jumping worm are particularly worrisome.
Hope your worms aren’t of this variety.
Yes! It was a shock to me to discover there were problem worms in parts of the world. I can’t remember if the ones I read about were the jumping worms or not… but it was really interesting – and very worrisome. Hard to conceive of a garden without worms! I wonder what the main critters were that did the breaking down of matter. (Google later lol) Happily here, there doesn’t seem to be any problems with the worms that are here. Tasmania has an extra level of quarantine – even for people coming from the mainland. We (so far) are lucky with not having a lot of the garden/farm pests that the mainland does.