How time flies these days! It's been a month since we updated the blog last! We've hardly taken any photos of anything at all, except for today! Not very many photo's to share today then!
It's a long weekend here and we are enjoying time in the garden! God has given us the most beautiful, glorious autumn days which we are hoping to make the most of! So off to the hardware shop we went for some plants, fertiliser and some bits n bobs. Home again to begin the list of projects for today!
Projects this weekend have consisted of mostly getting the garden beds tidied up, overgrown shrubs whacked with Larry's chopper things and weeding (Saturday's work). Today we have managed to get back into the veggie garden and we've planted seeds for carrots, parsnips and swedes after turning over the soil and fertilising (ok, I did that bit while Larry planted some other plants - red/black currants). So now we wait.....
Next on the to do list is to finish clearing more weeds in the veggie garden to plant seed potatoes. Then to start cabbage (red and green) and kale seedlings and they will be transferred once the beans and tomatoes are finished. I think we will also have young leeks to transplant once we find them amongst the weeds!
We are still picking an abundance of beans and tomatoes! Looks like I will be busy making the 3rd lot of tomato relish for this year (previous years I have had to horde the tomatoes to get the 1.5kg needed to make one yield of the recipe I use). I have also been busy with the 100's of apples that our tree has produced making them into pies and stewing them (into appelmoes). Our freezer and pantry are getting very full!!
We had also decided earlier in February to go strawberry picking so I could make jam! Some 3kg of strawberries later we had lots of jam! We also had enough nectarines (2kg) from our tree to make jam, and then more later to stew and freeze (and fresh ones to eat). This was the first year we actually got any edible and decent size nectarines from our tree!
Anyway, enough gardening news!! Some photo's to share of the boys enjoying the sunshine today, playing outside, 'helping' with the gardening and getting filthy dirty in the process (thats what boys do right??)!!
It's a long weekend here and we are enjoying time in the garden! God has given us the most beautiful, glorious autumn days which we are hoping to make the most of! So off to the hardware shop we went for some plants, fertiliser and some bits n bobs. Home again to begin the list of projects for today!
Projects this weekend have consisted of mostly getting the garden beds tidied up, overgrown shrubs whacked with Larry's chopper things and weeding (Saturday's work). Today we have managed to get back into the veggie garden and we've planted seeds for carrots, parsnips and swedes after turning over the soil and fertilising (ok, I did that bit while Larry planted some other plants - red/black currants). So now we wait.....
Next on the to do list is to finish clearing more weeds in the veggie garden to plant seed potatoes. Then to start cabbage (red and green) and kale seedlings and they will be transferred once the beans and tomatoes are finished. I think we will also have young leeks to transplant once we find them amongst the weeds!
We are still picking an abundance of beans and tomatoes! Looks like I will be busy making the 3rd lot of tomato relish for this year (previous years I have had to horde the tomatoes to get the 1.5kg needed to make one yield of the recipe I use). I have also been busy with the 100's of apples that our tree has produced making them into pies and stewing them (into appelmoes). Our freezer and pantry are getting very full!!
We had also decided earlier in February to go strawberry picking so I could make jam! Some 3kg of strawberries later we had lots of jam! We also had enough nectarines (2kg) from our tree to make jam, and then more later to stew and freeze (and fresh ones to eat). This was the first year we actually got any edible and decent size nectarines from our tree!
Anyway, enough gardening news!! Some photo's to share of the boys enjoying the sunshine today, playing outside, 'helping' with the gardening and getting filthy dirty in the process (thats what boys do right??)!!
Quinlan the thoughtful one!
Watch out rabbit, I'm coming to 'pat' you!
This is how one gets around outside when they are not walking yet(very funny to watch and he's very quick too)!
Well.....it's time to get back to organising and cooking dinner! I think it's also time to rescue Larry from 'The Destructor' (aka Sebastian) who is carefully destroying the sleepout while Larry attempts to study!
Til next time........Larry, Bj n boys!
