It just gets better!

A small head of broccoli

Another perfect day at the garden yesterday! Weather perfect, soil perfect, cup of tea perfect.

The shade structure is now almost complete thanks to the efforts of Brian and John. Last Thursday we moved all the plants in pots – paw paws, macadamia and some citrus, into the new shade area which gives us a lot more room to sit comfortably in the people area.

Yesterday (Saturday) was mostly devoted to harvesting vegies and preparing them for sale at our round-about stall. I mentioned last time the vegies we harvested so I won’t bore you again, but this time we added white radishes. And in the next few weeks we should be harvesting potatoes as well.

Colourful stalks of silver beet (chard)

Curly leaf kale

There are two Knowledge reviews today so there’ll be lots of traffic and we wanted to take advantage of an opportunity both to increase our revenue this week and to show off our lovely produce.

As Janet and I were setting up the stall several cars pulled up (volunteers on various projects) and bought almost a third of what we had for sale! It gave us a chance to socialise too – I met some people I only see once in a blue moon so I guess there are hidden benefits to volunteering on “the farm”.

After our socialising had provided a rest for we admittedly weary “farmers”, we had enough energy to pick some citrus from the orchard. We picked loads of oranges and lemons, but occasionally we had trouble deciding which was which. There are some lemon-like things which are big enough to be oranges but not the right colour. Turns out they are lemonade lemons. Then there were lemons that looked like limes – the jury is still out on them, they’re the right colour for limes but not the right smell.

Not only did we have the stall at the roundabout, we had an extra stall over at Sandy Creek for the caravan club who were using it for the weekend. We put pumpkins and citrus over there. This really has been a big weekend!

And to top it all off, today is the last day of our “Name the Chook” competition (see previous posts). We’ve had some really good entries, some delightfully silly entries, and of course a winning entry – but more about that in the next few days, after our feathered panel has chosen.

For the next few weeks we have a lot of planting to do, and a lot of weeding too. Janet managed some of that yesterday, and I planted two rows of tomatoes, but we need more lettuces and silverbeet and we have to get going on some root crops too.

Bees on the coriander flowers.

More pictures of chooks for you!

Cheers

Norid