Busy Mumma

The last few months have flown and the poor old blog has been on the back burner.

With my boys growing, more active and curious and with 5 times as much vegetable garden to tend to, time to sit and write is pretty much non existent.

There were a lot of distractions this spring so the only thing I needed to give my seedlings - water - was forgotten quite often, so they were a little thin this year.  What I did manage to rescue has grown well - mostly flowers, cosmos, sweet william and sunflowers.  Early summer included a last minute flurry seed planting to make up for the spring failure.  I managed to get some corn, gherkins and apple cucumbers to sprout, which were planted before the holidays.

Corn next to the cucumber and gherkin frame (broken umbrella frame)

I brought some  heritage zhuccini seeds and planted them early summer too, I just chucked half a bucket of compost in a mound and dropped in seed or 2.  Now look at them - behemoths spreading out over my silverbeets and path.  We don't mind though, they make perfect veggie steaks.  We slice them thickly length wise, toss through a dash of olive oil, salt and pepper and grill on the BBQ - so simple, so tasty.

Behemoth zhuccini!!

I 'cheated' with most of my tomato plants this year, buying seedlings - shameful for Mrs-grow-from-seed-it's-cheaper.  The first sweet, sun-warmed cherry tomato I picked yesterday made it all worth it - there I a mountain to come too.

Everyday I'm bringing in loads of food - pretty soon there will be too much to eat so pickle recipes will be tried, and with luck, blogged.