Summer and water saving

Well it certainly feels like summer...a big improvment on last year! The garden in going fantastic and we are picking many kilos of tomatoes each week :) i have even had a few rounds of drying tomatoes (have 2 plants that are a drying variety).

However as it is summer and i am having to water regularly (and now have a new fish tank to add to the water bill) we have implemented a few stratergies to try and reuse water.

1. we now have buckets in the bathroom which we put into the shower before we hop in while the water is heating up
2. I am forever washing my hands in the kitchen sink...from preparing food for my daughter and i. all this water was just flowing down the drain... so i now have a bucked in the sink to wash vegies in and my hands over

A while ago my neighbours came over to my house to see my garden (adams idea! i was so embarrased haha) and it inspired them to create gardens of their own! So for the last few weeks we have been trading produce! Beans for tomatoes, peaches for rhubarb. It been fantastic! As we can only grow a very small amount in our backyards we have managed to grow different things (completely by accident!)

November and December Harvest

Sorry about the delay :) was in a friends wedding and then christmas! Such a busy time of year. Hope you are all well an stayed safe during the silly season :)

November
116g Salad Mix
154g Rhubarb
51g Strawberry
261g Royal Blue Potatoes
8g Blueberries
3g White currants
25g Spring onion

Total: Not very much................................................i mean 618g

It may come as a surprise but spring is actually the hungry season! Its when your winter vegies are finished but theres nothing new around yet!

The rain for november was: 316mm


December
94g Blueberry
151g Rhubarb
1170g Nectarines :):):)
22g Strawberry
2787g Potatoes :D:D:D
282g Tomato (first for the season)
14g Beans

Total: 4.52kg!!!

Scabiosa Midnight...so pretty

Using small drawstring mesh bags to stop the birds getting at the fruit of raspberries and strawberries! Works so well

Pepino-first time it has fruited since i got it...small melon like fruit

Pennsylvanian Crookneck Pumpkin (Long butternut)

The little dirt patch surrounded by logs is another attempt to grow carrots- and the netted section at the back if for a second round of potatoes

Chiminea (sp?) that we got for christmas from my parents :)

Second and third pumpkin plant growing up their trellis

xx