Day 27

Ok so by this afternoon I stopped coughing enough to get outside in the sunshine!  Woo Hooo... started with the watering out the front and....

THE FIRST POTATOES ARE UP! hehe Ok so it is just 4 tiny shoots but with how soft the seed potatoes were from bunnings!  So from memory these are the Delawares...  Boys are jumping for joy that there is progress after frequent checking! :-)

Brandon Came home from school and could not wait to check out the broad beans!

 

Went out the back and watered the potato bags and discovered either my coir has shrunk/sunk or my potatoes were "dug up" near the surface when Brandon went looking!  They are making progress with roots and shoots :-)  These are royal blue... still no kipflers up but they had no eyes when I put them in so might take longer.. *waits*





Checked on Brandon's many, many seeds... his rocket was up... when Brandon found out he had to run inside and tell Dad lol  "Dad I grew YOU a rocket!"

 The chives are starting to stand up tall... the seem to be more successful than the spring onions that still have not made an appearance.




The Ceylon/Malabar Spinach that was eaten by crickets is not doing too bad but is throwing out lots of seeds so hoping it will propagate some more :-) More for Brandon to plant lol

 The "Brandon's Grandpop's Lazy Housewife Bean" that germinated first and gets the boys running out to make sure it didn't die from cold every morning has now started curling and climbing...

 The Mint plants that Julie gave me are naturalising quite well... One is even trying to escape out the bottom!

 The Rainbow Carrots and Easter Egg radishes are progressing despite the crickets.. as seen in the lower half of the photo on left... and this is where said crickets go when I catch them... having a rescued insectivore does come in handy sometimes!
 The cricket was gone momentarily!

  Going through the seedlings there are lots of signs of life!  More chives are up along with more Rainbow Chard.  I still don't see any Orange only Red and Yellow so I hope for the boys we get a few different shades!








The lettuces are going great guns!  I hope everyone doesn't go off salad this time!  I can see us potting them up VERY soon!  Tom is chomping at the bit to get them into the hydroponic box they made so he can use the salinity and PH meters... I will be glad when they are so we can expand the learning about what plants need (and what we need too!).



We have some Kale that has come up but not sure it is looking so well... hopefully it will come good since we have never grown it before!  It is early days so lets hope things pick up!  Still no baby curry leaf trees :-p

 The Ceylon/Malabar Spinach (plant 1) has made itself at home and is looking better... as are the peas in the background... the boys want them to hurry up... they want to pick them!

 Tom's bed now has heaps of carrots and beetroots much to his delight!

The boys came out after/during homework for an official inspection... there were lots of "and... and... ands" LoL  So glad they are enjoying it and are getting enjoying being "Just like Granddad and Grandpop!" lol I do not even get a look in :-p

Tom inspected the hanging basket (that they grabbed from the side of the road lol)  I potted up the pink flowering strawberries so I am hoping they will come on since the boys are still doing a very cold dash for breakfast fruit... I even got TWO slices this morning woo hooo 

 Since the balcony hanger wont go over the top of the fence (the fence is too wide :-( ) It has been popped on the side of the kennel... there are only Nasturtiums in there at the moment I daren't risk anything else until I know the dogs aren't going to get up to mischief!

Well that is it from me... its all slow and steady here until my cold goes away *hugs*  Sarah

Day 26

Blah cleaning so no garden today but I have had a few requests for updated house pics... so since it was all nice and tidy... well nearly!

 
*hugs*  Sarah

Day 25

The Strawberries still growing well.  The chives are slowly growing bigger.
Brandon did a check on all of his plants :-)

Grandpop's Tomatoes are growing nicely in the greenhouse and Brandon believes he spies the first onions in the tray he planted... along with a few more leaves on the Rainbow Chard!

 Some red and some yellow Chard :-)  and the three colour beans are looking well despite the cooler weather.

In Tom's bed his Beetroot is going well and two rows of carrots have just popped up!  I have a feeling will have a good deal of baby carrots to thin the bed.


On watering he front garden we discovered some of the Rhubarb doing well (Left) and some has been eaten away (right)... here was I thinking nothing would eat it!

Tom did a front garden check... Sage (centre) and we spied a few broad beans too.. not potatoes yes though!

  *hugs* Sarah

Day 24

Ok I am playing catch up... things got really busy... You will see why and unfortunately not in the garden! :-p

Day 24 I walked into the garden for a little bit but not long at all!

 
 The Carrots popped out their real leaves and what I thought were carrots in Tom's bed turned out to be beetroot I think... His labels are a little wonky ;-)



Then I walked inside to put something in Brandon's Room... well that was the end of all Gardening for me for a while.... hmmmm

Yep that is what Brandon's room turned into and I knew there was no way on earth he could tidy it... all those bits of lego and toys get sooooo distracting!

So with a little (LOT) or work and a giant sized garbage bag it turned into this!

Post it notes are brilliant for helping organise the lego sets and "cubes"...  Brandy has been popping lego from sets into their cubes so we might be able to get operation rebuild underway :-)

Feels good to have it done!

*hugs* Sarah

Day 23

G'day, quiet day today, the boys have been on scooters and "out bush" with their friends.  I managed to get in some Nasturtiums in a planter box... I know it isn't that time of year but worth a try :-)  The carrots have popped up their secondary leaves so slow and steady...   Oh and got another foam box from a lovely lady named Vicky today so we can make another lettuce hydroponic box woo hooo... That's it from me today...  *hugs* Sarah

Day 22

Well again very little time in the actual garden... hopefully tomorrow!  We did however end up in K-mart and bunnings... my little garden bug decided we had to goto the garden section of K-Mart... who am I to argue?
We got another stevia seed pot so we will retry that and Brandon had to have some MORE seeds lol... Nasturtiums, cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage... I have no idea what to do with all these seeds germinate!  We also got a balcony hanger and planter.  Then we went in search of Brandon's Chocolate Mint in Bunnings... they still didn't have it but are going to call us when they do (which made Brandon very happy)... I found some more pink flowering strawberries in the advanced seedlings so we bought a punnet since I don't think we can produce enough strawberries to supply the boys no matter how many we have lol...


Ok photos from yesterday:

Brandon found several baby crickets on the yellow sticky trap so was quite chuffed!

Speaking of Chuffed... our strawberry pot we had started to think was a no show had a tiny sign of life yesterday... so a very happy Brandon (and Tom grinned like a cheshire cat when I told him - he was too busy at the time).

 

We have chives... still teeny tiny but all signs of life appreciated!

Brandon planted *more* seeds.... lettuces, tatsoi and rocket... there are also two mystery pots with no labels hmmmm... 

 

Mr Tom working on drilling plastic cups to make more seedling/hydroponics pots... 

That's it from me today *hugs*  Sarah