Today's Harvest

This is my harvest from our garden for today. A bowl of cherry tomatoes, a few beans (some ended up eaten before they made it this far!), and some strawberries and raspberries. The berries will end up in the freezer, waiting till we have enough for some jam (hopefully combined with my rosella's when they fruit), the tomatoes will sit on the bench until I have enough to try another batch of tomato sauce, and the beans will (actually, already have) be eaten.

It rained today, just in time, the garden was starting to get dry, and I was about to have to start bucketing! We're on level 6 water restrictions here in Caboolture Shire, which means bucketing water for gardens only on certain days. We're on tank water, but as we have a connection to the reticulated supply for emergencies, we're supposed to abide by council restrictions. Our hose won't reach the garden anyway, so by hand it is! Once the house is finished, we will have a dedicated garden tank, and then I will have to arrange a proper hose.

The garden is still very bitty. We've been here about 2 months now, and so far I have a total of 3 garden beds, each about 1m by 4 or 5 metres. One of these is exclusively dedicated to the strawberries, which I bought from my aunts as runners, and which are still fruiting, despite the late season. They are in the bed at the front of the photo. It's a bit hard to see, but in the bed beside the compost bin, there are some cherry tomato plants, then some corn. Running all through the bottom of these are some watermelon vines. The next bed over has some tomatoes, carrots and some more corn. The box at the end has some mosquito netting on it, and is protecting the corn from some hungry creature, we think a bird, that kept pulling the seedlings out to get to the seeds.

Plans in the next few days are to plant some potatoes, and hopefully make another garden bed on this side for the next lot of planting.