Pea Straw, Mama Fern and lots of new additions...

Stevia in background and orangeberry in the foreground

Well it's about time Papa Sam added to the blog... for better or worse, here I go. Mama Fern and I, bereft of kids today went for a bit of a bike ride today. We went to a dinky little nursery off state highway on  but it had little gems of plants hidden away, like pineapple sage. Yum. We got a whole bale of pea straw into the bike chariot and the nursery owner came out rambling about flower power in his age, now it was bike power. Like Totally Man!

Freebie celosia in left and lots of pea straw added to retain moisture.

Pineapple Sage #3 Eastern corner

Pineapple Sage #2 Northern Corner

Added 2 more pineapple sages to the other corners of the garden for bringing in winter predators and some red colour during winter. Plus they smell awesome.

Pumpkins and Squashes Flourisihing

More pumpkins growing under our bedroom window.

Pumpkins are growing well.  Lots of potential for this year's crop of pumpkin soup.

Added more pea straw plus more brassicas.

and further along the same fence.

Even more pea straw for the front wall, should help the marjoram, tomatillos, brassicas (romanesco broccoli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts) so we don't have to water so much.

Front lasagne garden near 3 Sisters

...and the other side of front lasagne garden

Have extended the lasagne garden our the front and added tonnes of pea straw.  Planted brassicas in the surrounding tyres (Romanesco broccoli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts) and have some seedlings that should be ready to do another batch of 3 sisters in a few weeks for the last harvest...maybe last, who knows...

Mama Fern and her brief moments of sewing bliss.

Mama Fern has rediscovered the sewing machine and I hear colourful language occasionally emanating from the vicinity of the sewing table. As to what she is doing, will update on this in a few weeks, as it's a surprise...

Youngest Girl's Blush Pepino.

Youngest girl bought her own Blush Pepino and a couple of miniature roses.

And as for the Backyard...

Brassicas next to the cos lettuce, almost ready for caesar salad time.

Tyre wall with lasagne 4 layers in each tyre.

...and around the corner

The Chicken enclosure is being prepped with some lasagne tyres. We filled them with paper, grass, cut leaves and topped with some pea straw on top. Did a mock up of tyre retaining wall (see below), probably going to do a staggered 3 tier tyre wall with herbs and stuff planted in the intervals.

Mockup of retaining wall to our next door neighbour's wall

2 sunflowers made it...

...and the final thing, be vewy vewy qwuiet..

the first Cape Gooseberry is hiding...

This is Papa Sam signing out, stay tuned for more future updates...