As the Lettuce Fades, So Shall the Beans Rise

The lettuces have served us well but now they have gone to seed. Meanwhile, the beans are flourishing.

Behind the lettuce are planted capsicum. In the small pots behind the beans are planted broccoli.  

Lettuce in the background tower over the dwarf beans.

Latest Card Models

I recently constructed some paper models:

I'm building card models rather than plastic because it's cheaper, there are less paint fumes, and the unfinished models are easier to store.

More Vegetables

My lettuces are now the size of rugby balls! We cut leaves from the outside of each lettuce as they are growing - crisp and sweet. Two minutes from garden to dinner plate - it doesn't get any better than this! (To zoom into the images click on each pic)

A couple of weeks ago I planted some dwarf beans in an adjacent bed:

Hope you enjoy these pics.

My Lettuces are Getting Bigger!

My first harvest in a sandwich. Deeply satisfying!!

My Vegetable Garden

I used to have a substantial vegetable garden. Then I let it fall to ruin. But lately I've cleared away the weeds and started again.

Some of the weeds removed. Basil in forground will be retained.



More weeds.



The same garden bed with weeds removed. Now we are getting somewhere!

A long section of bed was partitioned. About three inches of topsoil was removed, then compost poured in.



Rich black compost!



Into this compost was planted Cos lettuce seedlings. The planting was carried out on a mild overcast day, with light rain all day. Perfect for reducing the shock of transplantation. Then a light watering.

The final stage - a dressing of pea straw mulch. Then a good soaking with lots of water. Now comes the hard part - keeping them watered and pest free.



Work through your lunch break!

Our Christmas Holiday

This Christmas we headed west to rural Victoria, then our New Year holiday was in Adelaide, S.A. We stayed in a Glenelg apartment five minutes from the ocean.



Glenelg

 I love to take pictures of the sky, and here are some sunsets taken from Glenelg beach:

While in Adelaide we attended a 20 Twenty Cricket match between England and Australia. England needed one run fom the last ball of the game to win. Of course England won!!  Some photos of the sun setting behind the Adelaide Oval. Lovely:

I prefer Test Cricket, but this fixture was all we could attend at this time. Exciting, though, if a little too noisy for my tastes.

Hope you all like my pics. Stay tuned!!!