Playing in the garden, super-sized vegetables & being bugged

It was as windy as all getup here today. Keep looking at the gums looming over the house hoping their roots are holding on tight.

Regardless – it had to be an outdoor day. Too much kitchen time not enough garden time. There is a lot of work to be done – I am sure I will get around to it! 🙂

The corn stalks weren’t really properly dry, but they are messy and providing slug/bug homes so I had to do something with them.

So I reduced them from this –

to this –

Lovely scraps to be put in the compost! Very pleased we bought the little mulcher – such a useful tool for this place!

Still plenty of food other than tomatoes. I took time to enjoy hanging out with my ever growing zucchini!! I am curious to see just how big it will get. Was quite awkward trying to get the selfie – lucky I am not too precious about scrounging down in the dirt!!

While I was lying back in the vegie patch, this is the view that myself and (Insert name for zucchini here when I think of one 🙂 ) were enjoying in the sunny afternoon –

So besides madly oversized zucchini’s, I have pumpkins –

Heirloom capsicum (these were an accident as I planted ‘normal’ capsicum and got these instead – and I am totally converted! They taste SO good!!) They also change colour from green to yellow to orange and then red! But edible from yellow –

One struggling eggplant –

My beautiful runner beans! They haven’t made it up and over their arch yet, but I live in hope –

Living on the beans at the moment is quite a colony of very cool little bugs. I don’t think they are doing any harm, but they are really pretty.

There were also little family groups!

I suppose they are all very cute until they start munching their way through your garden!

To finish the day I did eventually have to get back into the kitchen. Due to tomato problem, I made tomato soup for dinner. Have no clue where my recipe is for it so I just had to make it up, throw in what I thought should be in there and hope for the best. Happily it turned out pretty fab (if I do say so myself) and even better I used up a stack more tomatoes.             Happy Days!

And to round off the day with apples, I made an “Apple Slump” A wonderful old fashioned recipe from my Great Aunt Ruby (who is 99 years old!). Its not fussy or pretty but it tastes great and is a good recipe to have on hand when apples are in season. (I will post a ‘how to’ recipe for this at a later date)

Aaaaand – I totally forgot to feed it to Jeff before he went to work!         Bad Wife!

He said he is looking forward to it for breakfast!

That rounds off another day from Norwich House!

Cheers!

PS The stall is on the up & up – I got $9 today!! 😛