Pumpkins, zucchini and beans have been cheekily creeping their way across every available surface vertical and horizontal. There is a sweet little road side Organic fruit and veg stall in Deans Marsh and for only a few dollars we got a whole bunch of lettuce seedlings and lovely reddish potatoes. We used a new chicken feed that wasn’t ground up, when the chicken tractor moved on the bed began to bristle with sunflowers, corn and wheat. The sunflowers I transplanted elsewhere, the others have been frustratingly prolific and even the chooks have stopped being interested in their stringy leaves.

Cooked my first meal from our own eggs, they look and taste so much better than supermarket eggs. Yay happy chickens! Our spinach got out of control so I made a yummy spanakopita. and I pulled apart some more pallets to make a planter box for my parent’s christmas. Under the bricks the previous owner of the house laid concrete reinforced with any type of scrap metal he could find, old bikes, wire, anything! Dylan had the joy of spashing the concrete up so we could have a new bed. I had a cold so all I could do is watch ;).