Saturday, April 26, 2008

White bulbs.





Roses.


Aren't these roses for $7 a bunch from the local service station beautiful?

More pig pictures!





I can't resist them, they are so cute!

We have guinea pigs!






Two new members of Home Cottage - Buttercup who is white and brown and black and Clover who is chocolate abyssinian. Very cute but their bed will be changed every afternoon and the wee soaked newspaper and dry straw with poo mixed in will be put down on the side garden that will become the cirtus area.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Bunny and the pumpkins.



The garden.



Snowpeas at the back door


Jas and Christie


Bee on a cosmos.


Little violets



We have lots of bright flowers out in the garden.

Cos lettuces going to seed.



I will be collecting all of the cos lettuce seed for the spring, Briggs the rabbit, the chickens and me all love cos lettuce.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Same garden just heaps bigger.

Got two big round bales of mulch today and went on a mulching spree and doubled the size of this garden for the blueberries, cotton, sunflowers and nasturtiums.

My dinner - a zucchinni



For dinner in a stiry fry with some spinach and cabbage and noodles.

Aggie and the pumpkins



More pics of the garden.




Christie in the chook pen.



After looking for Christie we found her asleep in the chook pen in the afternoon sun.

More picture of the new chickens





They are settling in today and I think the white one and the grey one will be the first to lay.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Pickled eggs and bread and butter cucumbers.


A surplus of eggs and cucumbers made me turn all the extras into bread and butter cucumbers and pickled chilli eggs.

New Chickens at Home Cottage


Bought four bantam hens at the Small Animal Markets today - they are very attractive birds and seem to be settling in ok.


Saturday, April 5, 2008

Briggs and Christie.

Briggs the rabbit and Christie talking rabbit/cat talk.

The full garden.



The garden is looking great and anything that is going to seed is food for Briggs the rabbit.

Christie by the apple tree.



Christie's favourite spot is under the apple tree nestling in the mulch - her she is just about to lay down in the mulch.

Handsome Bunny catching the sun.


Here is a photo of my handsome man catching some sun on the top of the lounge in the library.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

More of Aggie.



Can you see her little pink tongue? Jasmine took this pictures with Agatha after school.

The Autumn garden.





The garden is producing well with lots of cos lettuce, beans, parsley, pumpkin, cucumbers, the last of the carrots, rocket, spinach and silverbeet and all the herbs.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

The cotton plants are producing!




As Jas went past the side garden to water the peas and locquat around the front she saw this! Two pods of cotton - we were so excited and now I know I will have seed for Spring!