One of our favorite readers, Lisa from Tasmania is checking in and her garden pictures and with all the cold weather we’ve been having, well, it just brightened my day.
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Hi Mavis!
The garden is slowly slowly coming good – the weather won’t remain consistently warm/hot to really get things moving.
I picked the first raspberry the other day. I need to go down and see if any others are ready for my consumption! 🙂
Snow peas are getting more and more plentiful and the lettuce is amazing. I have been really lucky – My friend Mavis let me put my lettuce on her market stall as I really don’t have enough stuff for my own stall yet. So far the lettuce have pulled their weight and made me $28 !! I have planted more seed to get more of them growing – since they seemed so popular!
My lovely big potato patch is growing well… we even bandicooted a few early ones the other day – I have been missing new potatoes on the dinner plate badly!!
I have tomato plants everywhere – hoping to sell lots of the excess, (you know, if they get around to producing actual tomatoes) but I need to stock up on relish & sauces soon!
Been happily picking a good bowl full of strawberries every second day!
Getting rather fond of fresh strawberry milkshakes!! 🙂
I am also just wrapping up another 10 day photo-challenge that I do via facebook. It’s been fun watching the photos roll in every day with everyone’s interpretations of the subject.
One of the subjects was ‘sign/s’ That explains the crop circle photo. 🙂 A sign we are not alone in the universe?? I think the aliens were amateurs tho – its a bit dodgy. Pretty hilarious ringing the farmer to ask if I could do a crop circle in his paddock!!! There was a rather long confused silence at first!!
THEN there was the moment to convince Jeff just how much FUN dragging a ladder, boards and ropes etc over the fence and across two paddocks to strap a couple of planks on his feet to tromp around and around would be!!
I married well. 🙂 🙂
Never dull around here anyway.
We still get out for walks when we can and sometimes the local possums visit.
The days are long now – I am loving it. I reckon its soon time to get the kayaks off the shed roof and get back to paddling up the river! Can’t wait.
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eliz says
Beautiful! Looks like Lisa has some very good soil in Tasmania! Nice to read and look at when its 6 below here.
Lisa Millar says
The soil is a delight!! Not much to do from me! Plants happen! 🙂
Lisa Millar says
lol – my friends name is actually Maureen! I must have had ‘Mavis’, on the brain when I wrote this – probably in the wee hours of the morning too! oopsie! 🙂