WEIGHING DOWN THE CLOTHES LINE – APRIL IN THE GARDEN

Globe artichoke leaves

Beans climbing up a bamboo pole

Bull's blood beetroot seedling

Ripening cayenne peppers

Eggplant flowers

Garlic sprout pushing through the mulch

Red marigold

Climbing pea

Pale yellow zucchini flowers

Purple basil leaves

Yellow sunflower

Sunflower seeds

Yellow marigold

Zucchini Tromboncino growing on washing line

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.

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LITTLE HELPERS – MARCH IN THE GARDEN

Making a new guerrilla garden in the nature strip, Melbourne, Australia

Little girl planting marigold seeds in guerrilla garden, Melbourne, Australia

Extended nature strip guerrilla garden, Melbourne, Australia

Little next door neight bour "helping" in the garden, Melbourne, Australia

Little next door neighbour planting out nature strip garden, Melbourne, Australia

Chickens digging in the driveway

Isa Brown hen digging by a sage plant

Freshly laid eggs and flowering roquette

Baked eggs in puff pastry with fetta and roquette from recipe in Delicious Magazine

Potato plant and orange French petite marigold

Seed potato in the ground

Seedlings from the Digger's Club

Zucchini vine near the no-dig garden

Timber palette planter box on wheels

Seedling trays on our bedroom window sill

Oriental, white and Australian garlic from the Digger's Club

Digger's Sunshine sunflowers

Zucchini Tromboncino climbing up washing line

 

 

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.

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