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It’s been a hectic week! This week I managed to

It’s been a hectic week! This week I managed to harvest so much from my garden that I upgraded from a collinder to a collapsible crate. Woohoo! I also found a particularly impressively shaped piece of spinach 🦋
[ID 1: a close up of this weeks harvest, featuring shelling peas, lettuce, baby spinach, sage, basil, parsley, and a couple of little alpine strawberries (which I sage to give to our garden Blue Tongues )]
[ID 2: a piece of baby spinach that resembles a butterfly] #homegarden #babyspinach #growyourownfood

A little photo dump of this week in my garden and

A little photo dump of this week in my garden and kitchen ❤️
[ID 1: sun warmed peas in a pod]
[ID 2: freshly baked banana bread. My first one!]
[ID 3: a freshly picked lavender coloured pansy, with blooming calendula in the background]
[ID 4: sorting freshly picked and washed sage, basil, thyme and radishes. Jurassic Park plays on an iPad in the background]
[ID 5: freshly made pasta drying on a pasta tree, and freshly made pasta curls drying in a container. The Mentalist plays on an iPad in the background]
#homegarden #growyourownfood #homemadepasta #pansy #calendula #peas #bananabread

Is it even a harvest if it doesn’t come in on yo

Is it even a harvest if it doesn’t come in on your shirt? 😂 featuring shelling peas, lettuce, kale, Italian parsley, basil, and sage 🌱 #homegarden #growyourownfood

I know I’m rubbish at posting updates nowadays,

I know I’m rubbish at posting updates nowadays, but look! Our first official harvest! ❤️🌱
We harvested 3 itty bitty potatoes (which were DELICIOUS), as well as some tender Kale, spinach, sage, basil and a little thyme.
It’s little, but we are so proud, and next year will be EPIC 🙌🏻
Also made some Anzac biscuits and some triple Chocolate cookies, because reasons 🍪 #homegarden #veggiegarden #cookies
[ID 1: a small plate with three small muddy potatoes, a small pile of perpetual spinach, a few basil leaves, sage, and a small sprig of thyme]
[ID 2: Anzac and triple choc cookies cooking on racks in the kitchen with fading afternoon sun behind]

A slight break in the rain, so I went outside to c

A slight break in the rain, so I went outside to check on the babies.
The plastic seems to have saved the seedlings from drowning, as you can see from the photo, this is what the garden bed would have looked like if I hadn’t covered them.
My potatoes didn’t fair as well. I couldn’t safely cover them, the plants are yellow (not a good sign) but fingers crossed as they are dude for harvest next week 🤞🏻
Let’s hope that’s the worst over 💔 #sydneyrain
[ID: black rain boots an inch deep in mud, surrounded by boggy grass]

The weather outside is proper rubbish, so I baked.

The weather outside is proper rubbish, so I baked.
My state, and and local area in particular, has been smashed AGAIN by epic levels of rain (160mm/6.3in) in 3 days, and there’s still more to come.
My veggie garden looks like Laura Palmer (whose old enough to get THAT reference?!) and my entire yard is leaf covered mud, but we are blessed beyond measure to be on higher ground and will see no flooding.
My heart is broken, again, for the locals that have lost their homes, possessions, and livelihoods, and coming on the back of Covid too, it’s too much.
Please stay safe out there, never drive through rising water, and please evacuate if given the direction. This too shall (hopefully) pass 💔🌧 #sydneyrain

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