Produce

I spent some time this afternoon digging up the old squash and tomato plants to make way for some new years vegie excitement. I gave the boy a gift subscription to the diggers club for his birthday and I'm already drooling over the collections of heirloom vegetables we'll be able to grow. I still haven't ordered any seeds yet, but I'm pretty sure I won't be able to hold myself back for too much longer!

Here's some of the stuff we grew and some of the things that are still there.







Beans have just started fruiting. We tried peas first but they got absolutely fried in the hot weather we had recently. Two punnets of peas later and the beans seem to be much happier in the same spot!



Our first baby pumpkin!







Squash are so unbelievably easy to grow. I would completely recommend them to anyone who wants to grow something but doesn't know where to start. We had fruit in a couple of weeks and they lasted for months. Considering that these beauties are rather expensive to buy at the supermarket they're well worth the almost no effort that goes into growing them!



A mixed bag of home grown bits and pieces.

The ladies are producing more eggs than we can eat, we've been dating the eggs with a pencil as a way to keep track! Our tomatoes were a bit sparse because I planted them a little too close to the squash and they got swamped. The few that we've manage to rescue from the birds have been yummy though. The corn was the most exciting thing for me. We got three good ears from five plants because I didn't plant them in a block and they didn't pollinate as well as they should have ... the boy had to help them out because they're usually wind pollinated. Despite all the shenanigans, it was the sweetest, juiciest corn that I've ever eaten. The interesting thing about corn is that the quicker you eat it after it's picked the sweeter it is. We compared an ear picked the day before with an ear picked an hour earlier and the difference was huge! I can't wait to grow some more.