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!)