M5 wondered “why do the weeds grow bigger than the plants?”
It just doesn’t seem fair, does it!
It’s all Adam-n-Eve’s fault.
And still we eat silverbeet.
Silverbeet in fritatta.
Silverbeet in curry.
Silverbeet in vege bake.
Silverbeet in soup.
Silverbeet on the side.
Silverbeet salad.
Silverbeet in anything.
You need to eat 736kg of silverbeet to get one day’s worth of iron….so we’ll be set for [...]
check out all that silverbeet
we are not short on greens at the moment
or marmalade
and my sink is even glistening
AND EVEN MORE EXCITINGLY….now I know how to draw on my piccies. YIPEE!
Look at what I’ve done over at Flickr…..made a homeGROWN photo album. Nifty.
The first strawberries of the season have made it from garden to plate.
These are no ordinary strawberries. They are not even *merely untouched by the birds* strawberries. They are nothing less than Extra-Special Survivor Strawberries.
At the end of last season we pulled out the plants, meaning to move them…..we got sidetracked and threw them into [...]
Tick. Tick. Tick.
We got EVERYTHING on the list done.
By lunchtime I’d had enough, but I’m so glad we went back to it for another couple of hours in the afternoon. It’s very satisfying knowing you could not fit one more seed in the garden, no matter how hard you tried!
It’s even better knowing there are [...]
move the neighbour’s dog’s pushing over toys compost bins
(the garden spreads further afield!)
buy a trailor load of garden mix, a bag of seedraising mix and a bag of potting mix
distribute garden mix across bottom patch
make two tripods for bottom patch
sow bottom patch with peas (around teepees), potatoes, sweetcorn
fill carefully-saved-but-heretofor-never-used-again pottles with seedraising mix and use [...]
