Slow Gardening

Well – we reached 30C today!! Thats pretty hot for Tassie!! (86F)
Pip has been in various stages of collapse everywhere around the house. Mostly in doorways though – because he is a cat.

Around the garden… I haven’t been doing much weeding or tidying. A lot of watering and moving water about. I quite enjoy moving the sprinklers while they are still going in this weather!
The first corn patch has started to do its thing, although it still overall doesn’t look all that impressive. Still… its exciting to see the little silkies appear!

Baby watermelons come and go, as do the baby pumpkins. Still hoping nature will do the job of pollination for me.

The zucchinis are appearing steadily!

Some of the rocket has started to go to seed. I’ve really been enjoying it in the salads!
Marigolds are starting to pop out too

Yesterday or the day before I noticed a tomato FINALLY making a bit of a colour change!!
Today I was thrilled to find it much more pronounced. I couldn’t help picking it… a couple of days on the kitchen window sill and then it should be ready to take pride of place in the nightly salad!

Found some flowers on my capsicum plants and have started training the hothouse watermelon up!

I actually spent quite some time in the hothouse (sweating) cutting off all the leafy extras from the tomatoes and cucumber plants. It had gotten so dense in there. Now I figure, more light, more energy from the plants can go into the fruit, insects might even see the flowers now and I can see whats going on!! I forgot to get a snap of the pile of leaves – it was quite an impressive lot! Hopefully that was the right thing to do.

Tonight we enjoyed the home made raspberry ice cream that I made yesterday! I took the seeds out and added a bit of sugar to the raspberries – its a pretty nice flavour thats for sure!!

Hope your week has started well!
Cheers!