Come Take A Walk In My Garden With Me

It's been a week since I've been able to meander around my garden seeing what is growing, what is dying, what is being eaten by bugs and what is ready for me to eat. I thought it would be nice to take you on a little tour as I went today.

We'll start with the pumpkins that are dying back. I was going to cut off the last of the pumpkins but can't get to my gardening stuff in the shed. Hopefully that will be tomorrow's job. Then I'll need to remove all of this vine and see what space is left for new plantings.


The red cabbages are coming along really well now. Hopefully they'll grow a cabbage in the middle anytime now. This is my first foray into growing cabbages so keep your fingers crossed for me.

Here is a closer look at that tiny lettuce starting to be shaded by the cabbage plant leaf. I have these mignonette lettuces planted in various places around the garden and they've reached the stage where I can start to harvest some of the leaves now. I LOVE plants that you can harvest from and they'll regrow so these lettuces are at the top of my favourite plants to grow list.

The broccoli is finally starting to find it's feet and put some serious effort into growing. Last year it was too late to get much broccoli from it so I'm really hoping it will do better this year.

I've just spotted the first of the peas growing on the pea plants. I have plants in various stages of maturity right now from fruiting, flowering and right down to some that have just germinated. Every now and then I just push a few more pea seeds into the ground. They're so easy to grow and cheap too (a packet of seeds contains HEAPS of pea seeds - unlike some other seed packets where you only get a few).


It looks like my shallots are about to flower. I have no idea what this means. Last time one of the plants flowered, I didn't find any new plants sprang up anywhere. And the plant seemed to return to "business as usual" when it had finished flowering. These shallots are now quite thick but still work well at adding a subtle flavour to our dishes. We're not huge fans of the onion flavour so I LOVE my shallots for adding a more subtle flavour. They were such a bargain too. $1 on a clearance rack. I wasn't sure they'd survive but they have. AND thrived. And more than paid for themselves over time.

Despite the cooler weather, my strawberries have continued to flower and produce fruit. I really need many more than 4 plants though as we tend to get up to half a dozen strawberries at one time (which is hardly enough to satisfy 5 of us). Problem is, I keep killing them so I'm reluctant to buy too many plants (at almost $5 each) until I find a survival method.

My roses are my pride and joy and make me smile daily. They're struggling a little with the cold frosty weather we've been having but they're troopers and usually rally through the tough conditions. This was the only healthy bloom I could find to photograph but isn't it just beautiful. I have 4 standard Bonica roses in the front garden and they get me a LOT of comments from visitors.


Well, I hope you enjoyed this little journey through my garden. We've been away so there's no "$25 challenge" post this week. Will get back on track with that soon.