In the Garden

The veggie garden is doing really well with this lovely weather we are having...

Nice warm days, with a few showers of rain maybe once a week is doing wonderful things for the plants :)

The nights have cooled right down now and have been quite damp at times...

I have some late flowers on the poor tomato plants.  They didn't yield too many tomatoes this year but I got enough...I think I may over water the plants so need to do some more research on how to grow them successfully.   They died back but have re-shot since recent rain, and I have young plants popping up too...

I dont have problems growing silver beet, it is like a noxious weed but oh so handy for the chooks when there is no green around for them to eat...

Bok choy grows and goes straight to seed and then all little plants appear from the seed.  I dont think that our climate is suitable for them to thrive...

We have some baby Spring onions growing naturally among the pumpkins...

(Why sideways blogger?)

Have planted out some more broccoli

because I had great success with them last year :)

A pumpkin hiding away under it's big leaves...

And another...

I got the pumpkins planted a bit late as I didn't have the space while the Summer crops were growing...

The original Spring onions growing oh so well.

We have been eating quite a bit of these lately in our Asian recipes...

We have planted more beetroot as we have run out of our pickled ones now, they were soooo nice!

Can't wait until these are ready :)

The potatoes have had another lease on life and I accidently found some potatoes the other day while poking around, so have piled some more dirt on top, it will be interesting to see how many we finally get when I remove the tyres...

Planted out some dwarf beans and they are doing well, hopefully we get a nice crop before the frosts hit, they are already flowering so fingers crossed...

 The capsicums are producing abundantly at the moment, and so are the apple cucumbers,

I pick some nearly every day...

I am so enjoying going out to the garden and picking carrots as I need them, so much better than the bought ones...

Progress is happening to the next part of the garden, I think hubby is realising that we can grow much more than he first thought. Just takes a little effort to establish things, but the benefits are so rewarding...I dont spend a great deal of time out in the garden, just watering and pulling a few weeds which can be very therapeutic... 

The herbs are also doing great, I grow these in pots and water with rain water from our storage tanks...

Basil

Oregano

Parsley

Rosemary

Thyme

The Aloe Vera has really gone ahead leaps and bounds.

And I have bought this coriander,  just needs to be potted out in the next few days...

How is your garden growing?

Hope the weather is being nice where you live...

On a sadder note, we have a funeral to go to tomorrow, and will be travelling down in the early hours to be there because it is four hours away from here.  It has been a sad week for our family as we have lost two Uncles within days of each other and both funerals are tomorrow. One at one end of the state and the other at the other end, so we can only go to one. One Uncle was only 66 and died of bowel cancer, the other was 83 and also died of bowel cancer :(

I have been doing a lot of thinking this week about how short life really is and that we all should enjoy it and live it to the fullest.  I will be turning the big 50 later this year and feel my life is now ticking away.  My aim is to keep eating healthy and exercising to keep the old joints working and truly take stock of what is important to me. I can tell you right now that it is not the all stuff that I have been accumulating over the years...Time for a clean out I think!

xTania