It's A Jungle Out There...

especially if you're a slug or a snail in search of a juicy morsel. The vege garden continues to delight (both humans and bugs). The kids always know where to find me.

The zucchini's have exploded and we make delicious zucchini pie -- 

 the original tomatoes still look great - 

 and it now appears that I (slightly) overplanted Station 2! There's mint, coriander, peas, eschallots, spring onions, brown onions, orange carrots, purple carrots, broccoli, cauli, cabbage, betroot, capsicum and cherry tomatoes all in this small area - oh, and a little pink rose geranium that I'm nurturing. What a harvest there'll be if everything can find room to grow.

is this view really enticing if you're a slimy creature looking for a feed?

This is the pumpkin that Megan checks on every second day, desperate to pick it.

The view from a distance.....the little bare station in the middle (Station 3) is going to be the herb garden. It's been down for quite a few weeks now so should be ready for planting. you can't see in the photos but I've made another station (4) from a mixture of sheep manure and sweepings from Andrews' yards, chopped lucerne, sand, black soil and feedlot manure; I've been leaving it to mature so haven't planted into it yet. It might be interesting to see the results between the two different mixes.

This little vege patch is Megan's, just outside the gauze room. It has peas, lettuce and tomatoes planted; we've eaten quite a few lettuce leaves already.