GARDEN SNAPSHOT

The garden is growing well, but as it is the middle of winter things tend to grow a lot slower. We were lucky enough to receive a load of beautiful mulch from a friend who is an arborist, so this was spread over last years load which was looking quite sad.

Our truckload of mulch

This is what the paths looked like before

And after

I love the look of fresh mulch!

Now for what's growing, the leeks are doing great!

And so is the garlic

And the herbs, and rhubarb

Hopefully the broad beans will flower soon

The celery is starting to take off and the silverbeet continues to produce well

The chili bush is still looking healthy and some chilis still on it and they are slowly turning red

The cauliflowers look like they will all be ready at the same time!

The purple sicilian variety really is so pretty!

More mulchy goodness! This took me forever to move! I did about 2/3rds by myself and then hubby helped with the last bit. I was unable to move the wheelbarrow so I loaded it up and he tipped it out for me!

The peas are doing well, but not as well as last year!

More garlic

And more silverbeet

The lettuce is still doing well

I don't think I will get sick and tired of looking at fresh mulch. 

WEEKLY TALLY - NUMBER 11 AND DRYING HERBS

The garden is still very quiet as the patch was stripped of it's summer plants and planted out with suitable plants for winter. This week I decided to prune a few of my overgrown herbs such as thyme, sage, marjoram and tarragon and dry them to pass onto friends and use in recipes that call for dried herbs (I never keep any on hand so this is my chance!) I tried to dry them in the oven which was set to 50 degrees celsius  but the smell was overwhelming and made me start to feel sick, so I turned the oven off, opened all the doors bunched them up and decided to let them air dry in the laundry next to last years garlic.

1/4/13 - 7/4/13

29 eggs
67 grams chili
204 grams marjoram
314 grams sage
23 grams thyme
443 grams tarragon

TOTAL 28 EGGS, 1.051 KILOS OF FOOD

Marjoram 

Sage

Taragon 

Thyme

Hanging up to dry next to last years garlic!

This week I am linking up with veggiegobbler for garden gobbles.