First Pick

I picked a carrot!!! Each time I've peeked over the last few weeks (by digging a little dirt away) each carrot looked so perfectly orange and round but I did wonder what was really going on beneath the surface. Well, this is what was going on! Obviously the soil isn't quite friable down where it matters for carrots. I'll work on that. One day I'm going to grow the perfect carrot!

The wind today has been horrid. I soaked some old straw in water and mulched the latest round of seedlings, trying to protect them a little.

The Scratchers are doing their job, building me a vege garden. We had prawns on Wednesday night; they had them on Thursday morning!

Fluffy bums. The wind has played havoc with The Teenager's hairdos; feathers are everywhere.

This is The Teenager's new home. I just need to do a little repair job on the netting and they'll be able to move right in. It's a great pen; much more room than their current one. They spend all day free ranging and sleep in a small pen. In the mornings they're crawling all over each other trying to get out. This will make a big difference.

Not long now and I'll be able to cut this and eat it. Looking forward to that.

Rainbow silverbeet in the concrete tubs; for the chooks.

The dwarf lemon that I got for my birthday a couple of years ago will be the first citrus tree in the permaculture garden.

More lettuce, this time in the concrete tubs. We don't eat a whole lot of lettuce but I really like to grow the different varieties and the chooks love fresh leaves daily. These ones took a while to get going - I thought the soil mix might have been a bit hot for them. A few died but the rest have powered on.

It's raining tonight. I went out and sat on the day bed on the verandah just so I could listen to it falling on the roof. Most times I can't hear much at all except a ringing in both ears but it was nice to sit and listen. I could just hear it. My garden will love the rain.