I’m rather impressed with the size of our Tromboncino Zucchini, our washing line has started to tilt rather alarmingly due to its mass. The rogue sunflowers have been reaching upwards, but none is as impressive as the Digger’s Club sunflower which is as thick as my wrist and would brush our kitchen ceiling if given half a chance. My garlic has surfaced and the cayenne peppers have turned a delicious colour. They are so much hotter than supermarket chili that Dylan claims that one with the seeds scraped out has the same strength as ten with seeds. My taste-buds tend to be burnt off by looking at a chili so I think I’ll leave him to experiment with that one.
LITTLE HELPERS – MARCH IN THE GARDEN
We are slowly extending our garden into the unused corners of the garden. The chickens have helped us weed the driveway and the little girls next door helped me plant out a second nature strip garden. I found a lovely Easter reciped for baked eggs in Delicious Magazine and it was lovely to be able to use our own eggs and roquette, but not our own fetta…yet. Hehe, I don’t think I’ll be able to get a goat just yet.
A LITTLE GUERRILLA GARDEN
Having read a little about guerrilla gardening I was inspired to put some prime north facing land to use. After all it is just there at our doorstep, it seems like such a waste! I’ve started small, due to urgings from Dylan, but I have much bigger plans for our humble nature strip!