together with today's pudding!

Glad you beat the birds to the peaches!

So what have you planted for autumn?

Now that my pumpkins are ready for picking the price has gone down a lot $2.48 kg but why does the humble cabbage have to cost $9 each beats me. BirdsEye must be laughing all the way to the bank as frozen veggies are so cheap, two years ago hubby would not eat them no choice now, you would know that the supermarkets up here doubled the price of bananas overnight on Tuesday when Cyclone Larry dumped its load further North, bunch of thieves as their cold stores or warehouses are full of things like that probably last years too, people are refusing to buy anything that has doubled its price this week...

Today I planted seeds, of luttuce, spring onions, radish, basil, pak choi, for us and silverbeet for the chooks to eat in the winter when the grass goes brown, they managed to get their necks through the fence and ate some of those capscium so I put more wire there...The Black Russian tommys have fruit on them the size of apricots and the 232 spring onions I planted from the one punnet are coming on very well, but do I miss those broad beans here,( I tried but they got a type of rust ) when I lived in Melbourne I use to plant three packets just before my birthday every year mind you a lot never got to the pot nothing nicer than raw sweet baby BB they are up there with peas..Your Autumn planting sound great you will have lots to eat and to share well done,,and I reckon you are right about the rain you said we will get in the Autumn we got 9mm yesterday so thats a start and Cyclone Wati is out there. Cheers..MM.

Cosmicgardener, your photos and food lists are making me hungry. Keep up the good work.

I've just planted 300 punnets of flower seeds for the childcare centre! Then within the hour of staggering to my massage chair, two of the Mums phoned and volunteered to help with the garden - bugger - we still have all the building work to get through but I'll be calling on them when the planting is due! Seems I've been appointed unpaid gardener as well as unpaid office manager and unpaid 'one who opens up at 6 am' and unpaid 'teach the kids about making bread' and assorted other stuff.......this is called retirement???

" Well done and keep up the good Work "

Gem Squash? That sounds fascinating. And did you see 'The Hairy Biker's Cookbook' on SBS last night? They traveled through Namibia and used Gem Squash in their cooking.

Sooo, if there are still some seeds for this squash I'd be very interested in growing it.

Must put in some Broad Beans now. Stagger them over the next few weeks. :)

Misty - I've added 'unpaid demolition of ceilings and walls' and tomorrow we are going to cut out all the viewing windows. and start digging the trench for 70 metres of guttering to drain the car parking area. Builders labourer was never on my CV when I gave up the lecture circuit and lucrative school for no pay and hard slog!

The fellow across the road who raised the objection because "children are an abomination" has gone to ground after council unanimously approved everything and gave their full support to the project. So its all systems go now. We take a few littlies up there for a couple of hours every day so they can get used to the new place and they love it. We have been given a tame pig, some chickens, a cow and calf, some rabbits and ducks and we have two volunteer artists who will do a lot of internal murals and things, I love how people get behind each other in this place and it is rewarding. I do what I can and Bob is amazing but physically I still have some challenges, but I think the more you rise to a challenge the stronger you become. I've lost 3 kilos , so it has its side benefits! Saturdays are for my own garden work so I'd better get out there before Bob spits it and accuses me of delaying tactics!

they are down to 3 bucks atm