A day of work and joy

It's been days of work - sieving, pruning trees, sieving some more, cleaning up around the garden beds - our backs hurt with pain telling of fulfilled work and many achievments! We've eaten spinach out of the garden yesterday, it was intensely flavoured, and had our first salad and rucola today - it is great to harvest the first fruits. We learned a lot during our first season, and all of this will fo into our further efforts to make us semi-self-sustainable out of the backyard at some point in the future.


The clear winners of the autumn's germination project are - who would have guessed - the radishes - who looked up into the light in just under 48 hours. They were closely followed by the rainbow chard, of which 2 of 7 plants are looking into the sun already.






Another great joy today was to see our first two chili plants which have been hidden in the soil for the past two weeks - two in one day! It is an undescribable feeling to see those things grow and wake up in the morning making a new plant-   discovery! (But then again, I get excited quickly.)

Last but not least (contrary!) my beloved Passion Fruit Plant has grown two leaves in three days after being stagnant for two months. There is hope! :)

The go in the ground tomorrow!

2 out of 5 have germinated and this weekend they go in the ground:)

Come on fella!

My lone passion fruit plant coming up:)

small things

 Because I was in Melbourne for a week I had to put my jiffy pots outside and just hope that they survived. I'm amazed at how well they have done. Here is my first passionfruit plant^^

 Some cavalo nero...

 Capsicums!

 Red iceberg lettuce...

And finally celery. That's pretty darn good I reckon:)