This morning began with a quick trip to the garden... salad for the kids sandwiches! A mix of lettuces, basil mint, nasturtiums and a few coriander leaves to be packed into a ham and salad sandwich for each boy.
On my morning excursion it officially became spring in our garden... my cherry tree has sent out its first leaves!
This afternoon I got to have a garden tour with Brandon in "HIS" garden lol... HIS purple beans are producing! As are the Lazy housewife beans... it's very hard to convince everyone that we need the seeds and not eat them all straight out of the garden!
This believe it or not is a Curry Leaf Tree! Fingers crossed it doesn't keel over :-p They are very pedantic!
Next we had a rather passionate discussion that I could share a few cuttings of the chocolate mint... you would think I was asking for gold! We did however end up with two cuttings and Brandon even parted with some Peppermint and Basil Mint leaves because they were needed to go in his peas for tea! As you can see mint peas was met with some enthusiasm! :-)
Peas... yes I mentioned peas! We actually got some to the kitchen! Lizzie the ones in the pot were your gift at our last meeting... they are now flowering :-) Our other peas are flowering and producing much to everyones enjoyment. There are few greater kitchen pleasures than fresh peas! 
Cabbages... well you know the old saying "one persons trash is another person treasure"... well in our house that is definitely true. We took 6 Cabbage Loopers (Green Caterpillars) that have been eating holes in our Cabbages and took them in the house... straight to the bird cage... one very happy bird who let us know he caught them all by himself ;-) The Cabbages have been making great progress despite the holes... fingers crossed we can keep up with our pests!
In the root veges our progress is slow and steady in our first year... baby purple carrots got pulled and nibbled on. Rainbow Beetroots are growing nicely and I think we have tiny parsnips... I think we might need to give a side dressing of some more fertiliser since the soil is so sandy.
Onward to the front garden... The Cape Gooseberry is flowering! It is still less than a foot tall but looking quite happy :-) The Purple Artichokes are looking happy (middle), sadly we lost a few of the green ones to some mystery pest, which I suspect is our ever present giant crickets. The Blueberries (right) are flowering prolifically. Again I am not sure if we should let it have fruit the first year but again we will see what happens.
Deleware Potatoes are looking strong since the last hilling up. If nothing else we will have great soil out the front! Sage is looking well after all the rain and still my rhubarb struggle onward... once more I believe my foe to be the blasted crickets!
*hugs*
Sarah
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