Brassica Day

Hello!!
Yesterday I finally got to the end of making that batch of relish. 14 new jars! (Can’t have too many in my opinion)
I also cleaned out the fridge and did other ‘stuff’ and did a silly amount of dishes… I don’t want to talk about all the dishes.
Moving on… 🙂

So… today was my birthday!! I’d planned to go to the market where Jeff and I were going to do a scavenger hunt with $20 each to get funny presents (his birthday is next week)
Of course the market is not on 🙁 I forgot that there was an extra Sunday in this month so there is a three week break between markets not a two week break.
We dropped in to see Ruby & Margie but they were still at church.
Strike two.
Supermarket. (Because thats a happening place on ones birthday) I bought myself some special orange chocolate… except when I got home and took a mouthful I discovered I had picked up salted caramel since the stupid packaging is orange like the orange chocolate!! (Sadly the salted caramel was too rich for me but Jeff seems to be enjoying!!)

ok… so. Today wasn’t going brilliantly sparklingly well… so I put on my gardening duds and planted stuff!

The potato plot being recently dug to within an inch of its life, was the easiest and best spot to use.

I ‘spot composted’ with the leftover mushroom compost and started getting the plants in.

Dug up plenty of fat worms.

Two types of cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower. I haven’t done a lot with winter gardens in the past, so this seems rather ambitious! Hopefully I will have some success.

Thats one bale of straw!! Those bales are so tightly packed!! Hoping that will slow the weeds

Luckily I’ve kept all the polypipe and stake supports I’ve made in the past. Some are a bit wonky and some of the stakes are a bit shorter because they have broken… but it still works well enough to support the nets and hopefully keep those cabbage moths at bay.

Another tick of my long list!!
The good thing about birthdays – getting to chat to all members of my family! That was fabulous – we all get a bit busy at times, but birthdays are for decent catchups so I love that.
Plus it is my gorgeous niece Emma’s Birthday as well!! Happy days when I was living close by them and I got jelly cakes and fairy bread every birthday just like a kid!!
Jeff and I did go out to dinner which was great! The restaurant down the highway does fabulous gourmet wood fired pizzas and it totally hit the spot… and NO DISHES!

Cheers!

(Snicker – hotwire now protects the corn thanks to the farmer but the rotten greedy cows reached in on the other side far enough to snag one of the running pumpkin vines that got too close to the fence!!! Happily the pumpkin was left behind with not many teeth marks! Made me laugh.)