Bit of Garden, Bit of Beach

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Meet my folks – David & Heather!

Mum and Dad are a bit behind on their daily walk on a beach – due to sniffles and snuffles, but happy to report everyone is on the mend and so far, Nurse Jeff is the only one that avoided coming down with anything (so far – fingers crossed)

We managed to slip back down to Fossil Bluff while the sun was shining yesterday

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Not a bad spring day!
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Being tourists
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Oh look! More rocks! (agate)

I really love this yellow protea that is out now – I think I need some at our place.  A lot was growing around the Fossil Bluff area!

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Protea

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While pretty much everyone was having a Nanna-Nap in the afternoon (cat included) I managed to squeeze in a little gardening. There is a barrel of a raised garden bed in the main vegie patch that was horribly neglected!

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I had lettuce in this last season – seems like among all the weeds there were some little seedlings doing their thing!
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Getting there
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Hopefully I didn’t disturb them too much!
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Added some of the self seeded silverbeet in as well
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If all goes well, this fellow will be the first salad of the season!
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Still got acres of parsley!

The carrots have been in the ground for ever! Seems the best way to store them long term!! They are starting to throw out white whiskers and a few are being munched on by some bugs. Since I am not precious, I have no drama peeling off the white roots and cutting out the bug damage and putting them on the plate… not that I tell Jeff the details! haha  They still taste really good too!

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These were on our plate tonight

An exciting moment – I have my seed potatoes! I can’t wait to get them in the ground and going… fast running out of potatoes!!

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And finally… all over the place, more Daffodils are popping out and making it very cheerful around here!

Hope you have had – or going to have – a fabulous day

Cheers!

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Author: Lisa

A happy traveller through life! Right now living in NW Tasmania with a gorgeous Nurse-Husband, a fool of a Siamese Cat and several chickens. We love our fairly simple lifestyle of growing a lot of what we eat and enjoying the stunning surrounds of our little patch.

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