Little pink watering can

Emma loves to help me in the garden. She will ask about the different plants and flowers.. smell them.. pull the petals of them.. (we are still working on that one). She especially loves to help me water, so when we saw this little pink watering can.. well she just HAD to have it.. lol


Only problem now is I have to remember to turn the taps off tightly.. or she will spend all day watering the garden.. and herself..

Worms & ladybugs

We're making some changes to our backyard. Changes which involved clearing out the corner where we put our grass and garden clippings to compost... and look what we found...



What little boy (and girl!!) can resist worms.. there were so many to collect (I just know this is grossing some of you out...lol)

They now have a nutritious new home in the compost bin.

and for those that are grossed out by worms.. how about a little ladybug..

and my bigger ladybug..

My garden

I've always dabbled with gardening, there's something very theraputic to me about digging my hands through the dirt, turning the soil.. planting seeds and seedlings... watching them grow. Now with the insdie of the house done I am getting more serious in the garden..


Last year I planted mint and was able to make mint sauce from it.. yum. It died off over winter but has sprouted back recently.

and this is my herb garden.. currently its housing parsely, rosemary, oregano, chives and the garlic that dh's mum planted when she was here. I want to try planting some ginger, apparenlty its really easy to grow.


Silverbeet


A couple of weeks ago I planted peas and here they are. I've never grown them before so will be interesting to see how they go.


Brocolli, never grown this before either but I grew some cauliflower over winter so it cant be that hard..lol


Capsicum.. we eat a lot of these over summer with salad.

I'm still to plant carrots, cucumber, tomatoes and zucchinis, just waiting for the weather to get a little warm.

and if we get sick of eating all the vegetables.. I have the fruit taken care off too ;)

The apple tree I planted here is budding. Not sure if we will see any apples this year though. We also have a very old nectarine tree which produces the yummiest fruit.



Strawberries.. that I finally transplanted so they are all in one patch instead of scattered everywhere in various pots.


and raspberries. I got the raspberry canes from my dad, they are from canes that were originally in my nana's garden and I can still remember picking and eating them with cream and a sprinkling of sugar... yummmmm


We are also in the process of sourcing some chooks! We eat alot of eggs and I have always wanted some chooks and I think it will be fun for the kids as well not to mention the great fertiliser they produce ;)

Light

We had the willow tree in our backyard lopped on the weekend.. who knew our friends son was a qualified tree lopper and just happened to have all his gear with him..lol
I do love our willow tree but it gets messy with falling twiggy branches if it gets to big, mind you all the leaf it drops in autumn makes great mulch for the garden!
Not sure that it gets this messy though!

and what do boys do with lots of tree limbs and branches lying around?

You build a teepee of course!


We also finally traded little old wooden outdoor setting that has faithfully served our growing family for the past 5 yrs for a BIGGER new outdoor setting. I love it.. the table is 5ft square and fits us all so comfortably around it. We love eating outdoors in the warmer months this setting will make for some much more comfortable meals.


and the part I love most about a spring is all the beautiful flowers starting to bloom.