Pumpkin and Potatoes

Hello!
Here we are in Monday again!
Yesterday it rained a bit and I did a bit of a catchup on the house work which I didn’t bother blogging about.
You’re welcome 🙂

I did pop in to see Ruby yesterday to have a lovely chat and a cuppa. We made garden plans mostly!!
I hadn’t realised she had run out of pumpkin! I knew she had gone through all her potato and was planning to drop some off, but decided to also cut into one of my big pumpkins.
Wow – I know why I want to concentrate on growing butternut pumpkins this season… they don’t fight you as much. Honestly… its a hospital trip waiting to happen!!

I finally got it cut in half, scooped out and saved the seeds before peeling and cutting it into manageable pieces!

A bag went into our freezer but most of it got delivered to Ruby and another friend, Shirley. I still have plenty of pumpkin out there – this way its much easier for the ladies of advancing age to cope with!!

I also got out into the shed and knocked the sprouts of lots of potatoes to deliver to the ladies too! (and brought more into the house for us)
I do suspect I will be using lots of these to fill that huge patch in the garden!

Ruby also requested some runner bean seeds as she had failed to save any. Easily done. They are still hanging on the fence in their pods!

Off into town with my bag of veggies!

Ruby’s magnolia tree is looking magnificent!
She is so proud of it and reckons its the best its ever been!!

Poor dear was having a rest when she saw me arrive… then of course lets me drag her out for photos under the tree!!

She will be 102 in a couple of weeks!!

She is still a terror! She told me she was going to plant the Christmas peas early September. Right. No worries. I plan to get in there and put up the trellis … Nope. She’s planted them already!!!! Now I will have to wait until they sprout so I can see where to put all the climbing frames haha.
She planted a row of potatoes too today, but said she got pooped and had to stop and sit

She was a bit indignant as she pointed out the chair that she sat in – which was full of water!! So I said “So you wet your pants huh?” She chuckled and said well if she had of it would have served her right but getting a wet bottom from the chair was a bit unfair!!
She cracks me up.

We’ve been transplanting her daffy bulbs into this unused patch and its quite the picture right now! Very spring and cheerful!

Back into town I went and managed to get into a local coffee shop and ask for the coffee grounds! I have been meaning to get onto this for an eon and never remember. The girl at the shop kindly said I could put my own bigger bin out the back and they can empty the daily grounds into it for me so I don’t have to come in each time!  That will go well in the compost!

I also picked up my seed potatoes!
(Really feels like the new season is happening!)
I also grabbed some cheap potting mix which I will mix with some of the leftover mushroom compost to start some seeds in soon.

Back home it was cabbage harvest time as I had planned a stirfry tonight.
Of course the girls got the outside leaves.

Most of them were getting into it enthusiastically, but one girl seemed more amused by picking up leaves and tossing them!!! Was so funny. I didn’t get great snaps, but you’ll get the drift

Chooks!! Never a dull moment with them!

Hope everybody’s week starts fantastically!
Cheers