Our Vegetable Garden - Update#3 November in pictures - Whoah!

It absolutely astonishes me every day I go up to see the opera house.  Seriously things are growing inches in a 24 hour period!  I'm so proud of our efforts and I think next week we'll be starting to harvest many things!

We're planning to spend time in the garden on Sunday - what about you?

Here's our update from yesterday:

Here is the corn there at the bottom (front) - it's starting to grow ears!  Very exciting

Up close shot of the corn

Here's the rocket - this will be on plates this coming week for sure, along with some pear, goats cheese and walnuts I think! Yum!

Silverbeet.  Woot.  They are growing SO fast!

And here's the leeks, fattening up lovely...

Tomato Land, I estimate about 50-60 flowers or fruit going at the moment, only about 6 are big (like the size of my palm) will need to raise the stakes this weekend and re-tie them all!

This is the Grosse Lisse

And here are the tomato berries budding..

Carrots are getting very fat!  Loving it

Here's one I pulled out tonight.

Here's our celery, need to do some weeding too this weekend!!

The beautiful cos lettuces, Caesar Salad tonight woot!

The beautiful Sydney Crimson Rhubarb, shooting up.

Eggplant have taken off this week.. won't be long 'til we see flowers I expect!

Watermelon

Cucumbers are flowering, very exciting!

Pumpkins still going strong

Here's the climbing beans, they are the ones that have me gasping.. they were planted 3 weeks ago and are 1 metre tall!!

Look at those stalks!

Got some news on the babygarden front too - but I'll save that for later!

Have a great weekend!!

What I love about Daylight Savings...

The days are seemingly much longer in spring after a dark winter, and daylight savings gives us the opportunity to have a bit more 'outside time'.  After all the rain we've had recently, the lawn and garden in general is looking lovely and green.. it's a happy time in our garden.

Yesterday being an unseasonable 33 degrees, I gave the garden a water after dinner, the little girls got in on the act and before I knew we were having water games, in their pyjamas.  I didn't mind - they got a little bit wet and dried off before bedtime.

They were squealing and having so much fun, how could I put an end to that?

 

 

Spring Fun in the sun

It was pretty hot here yesterday!!  Which was fabulous - we were back to our 'holiday weather' that we experienced up north.  Ahhh our house was MADE for outdoor living so it's wonderful to open up the house, the sea-breeze waft through and also bring out the paddling pool for our little ladies..

Do you think they enjoyed it?

Love a good waterfight right?