yums and noms!

Korn... sorry... corn and kale - early days. Now it looks like a jungle as the pumpkin patch (and watermelon, zucchini and rockmelon) has gone wild.

Kale chips - yummy!

Onions popping through the catnip.

Spinach, silverbeet and basil. That silver mixing bowl is 200mm in diameter. 

Spuds 'n' beetroot - yummy roasts coming right up!

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Back yard: more changes

 

Sorry for the blurry photo! This view is from the back steps (gate coming next week!) looking over to Gwen's side, and you can see our fancy chicken coop. The girls get to run around outside quite  lot, so they are very happy well-fed chooks. The pearlwort, in between the pavers, is starting to grow and spread. It's slow-growing but oh-so-soft and lovely to touch, so it'll be worth it.

"Fig Corner" - the second passionfruit is finally taking off, the wormwood was given a severe pruning because it was doing very well, the fig and olive are both looking very healthy, but the vanilla bean is still pretty dormant. The bare lawn patch - where the boys were mixing up concrete and where soil/gravel mix was dumped - is slowly getting smaller. 

View up to the side driveway, where you can see the next retaining wall taking shape. Vegas is on the timber inspecting the quality, as you can see, or maybe just its scratchability. New pawpaws in place, and we're waiting for the bananas to arrive (all government/quarantined approved) to go in front of the pawpaws, on the lower level.

Side view showing the two new fence sections finished as of the weekend. Nice to close off the view to the neighbours' various cars and trailers.

Redheads in the house!

D was determined he was going to have chickens, and chickens he would have... as soon as K left the city for a short break, three other women entered his life.

Butter (is best of course)(top), Tikka and Korma - invariably known as Tweedledee / Tweedledum, or the Ugly Stepsisters - have joined The Farm to add to the environmental (re)cycle.

Garden growth...

Plumbing and pipes and dirt, oh my!

Jay slaved away digging the trenches, in the mud, in the clay, in the rain - with some blood, sweat and probably blisters - and created the best pipe trenches our plumber Ben had ever seen! This was no small feat as he encountered broken tiles throughout, random pipes that stopped and started and weren't part of the working system. Such good preparation meant Ben could hook into replacing the old pipes with the new, including the extension to the new rubble pit, and have it all done and dusted in a few hours. Of course, there's still hours more work for Drew and Jay, with many wheelbarrows of gravel and dirt in their future.

Vege Patch v2.0

Well, this is it... the beginning of our second vege patch, the winter crop. We've got:

VEGES: red onion, white onion, asparagus, spinach, cos lettuce, beetroot, leek, silverbeet, tomatoes (cherry, roma, egg), broccoli

HERBS & COMPANIONS: marigolds, aloe vera, oregano, nasturtium, sage, pyrethrum, lavender, sunflowers, basil, thyme, chili, catnip, mint, parsley, coriander, dill

Pipe dreams...

Jay needs some new toolboxes - great for us, because we need some hard manual labour digging trenches in preparation for the re-plumbing! He put in some back-breaking hours and we're lucky to have him (wanting some cashola!). There's some crazy pipe criss-crossing - even Super Mario would be scratching his head, huh?