Friday 3 December 2010

Rain rain go away come again another day...

yes I am asking for the rain to go away. We need warm sunshine for at least 2 days to let the ground dry out before top soil just washes completely away. I also need to be able to get all the weeds out of my gardens and for Jaedyn's nappies to see some sunshine for at least a day.
I have had to resort to using disposible nappies at night due to the week of rain and cold weather. I hate the idea of using them but when your down to just a few dry nappies which are the ones that go to day care (due to their ease of use for the young girls who have never seen a non-enviromentally damaging nappy before) you have to bite the bullet and use the horrid things. I do need to get a few more MCN's but with little money in my pocket now and it being so close to him being toilet trained I can't justify spending the money. So I spent a few dollars on a small pack of yucko nappies.
Anyway with the rain my vegie patches are like jungles at the moment. Vegies are on fire but so too are the weeds. I get in and pull a bucket full each day and chuck them into the chook pen which has become a muddy area.
A month ago not too much was going on in the garden the flower pods for the passion fruit had started to appear. There are far too many to count now. Looks like passionfruit curd a plenty will be made if this weather goeas back to summer so the fruit can rippen.
A month ago this flower was like this

Now it is this


There are three different passionfruit vines in the yard. One is about three years old now which is the one in the photos above. The others were planted last year and one is growing very well the other needs attending to as I need to get in and direct it over some frame work as it now is all over the place. The good onehas a lot of flowers on it which look like this.........
My fennel is really big and lovely now. Ready to pull out but will wait till sometime next week when I decide what to cook with it. Any suggestions?


This is what it looked like 6 weeks ago......
 Unfortunately the weather has brought with it pests on my beans and potatoes and with all the weeds my beans are stunted in their growth just look at the poor things.....

 
My raspberry vine has taken over an entire area. I'm loving going and eating raspberries fresh of the vine. Ever so sweet and yummy.
 
This morning I discovered a visiter on the wall near my back door......


4 comments:

AJ said...

Thanks for a look at your garden. My hubby has cooked some lovely things with fennel. Is it easy to grow?

Xena said...

AJ Fennel is easy to grow. I bought them as tiny seedlings about 10 weeks ago and they are well and truelly ready to eat now.

mountainwildlife said...

Fennel- cut in half and oven roasted- with fish or baked dinner-yum!
Your garden is looking good and productive, well some of it, but at least you have some! I haven't managed to adapt my gardening very well to the different weather up here, can't believe what difference a couple of degrees makes :(
Only thing I have loads of so far is lettuce!

Xena said...

Yes the slight temp. change can make the world of difference but also up there I would think the frost lasted on the ground a little longer to. Which greatly effects growth.