Hello, I hope you are having a lovely weekend, it has been a good one around here too.
Today I spent some time in the garden making a pea patch for Spring.
We chopped a couple of old unproductive fruit trees down from this area and I turned the two tree beds into one long bed into which I have planted my little pea and snowpea seedlings.
I used the lovely twiggy branches from the peach tree as supports for my peas.
So I am hoping that in Spring I'll have a nice patch of peas to pick and enjoy, I always thing they are so much nicer eaten straight from the bush, and my boys like them fresh like this too.
What else is growing now hmm.....broccoli.....
....lots of silverbeet...
....Whilst weeding, I found a nice wild crop of potatoes and some overcrowded carrots,
might have these for dinner tonight.......
....and a lovely frilly lettuce.....
...early snowpeas are starting.........
......more silverbeet self sown everywhere........
....the tuscan kale is starting to take off with a bit more sun this last week, although something has been having a nibble of this one......
.....the rhubarb is looking healthier after a feed of horse poo........
There is a lot of growing starting to happen at the moment, Spring is on the way! Other lettuces,
pak choys, cabbages and broccoli are doing well too.
......and there are lots of pretty bulbs coming into flower ......
It is such a pleasurable thing to do, having a wander around the garden and seeing what is growing at the moment, what is slowing down, the changes that happen almost over night. Such a simple thing, but it does fill me with contentment and happiness, there is so much satisfaction to be had from growing a few plants, it never ceases to interest me and draw me back outside.
My sister came over this afternoon, so my little niece gave me a hand preparing the next garden beds for planting, she was very good on the rake, I have given up asking my boys if they want to help in the garden, it is just not something they are the slightest bit interested in, so it was nice to have a little helper for a change. She seemed to really enjoy it too!
What have you been up to this weekend?
Did you get into the garden too?