Pest free garden construction begins

Today we bought the 5 posts that we will need for construction of our fully enclosed garden. We have 1 damaged street sign, 1 clothes lines (fully adjustable but minus the horizontals), 1 post for sports nets minus the nets, 1 metal down pipe, and 1 mystery post with holes every 15 cm. gotta love recycling!!

Dec 7 - construction begins at 9am. By 10.25 we have the central post in

By 1 pm we had all posts in. Then we used clothes line to create the frame

Now I need to splice the netting together. Tomorrow I'll add it to the frame :)

So excited!

Here is the final piece - the netting. I still have to tie it down but it's almost done

I've put this off for years - in the end it took $15 for the posts, $60 cement, $$30 for the clothes lines wire and a day of work from Andrew the "Andyman" ( www.theandyman.com.au, or www.facebook.com/andyman.hobart.)

I couldn't be happier.
Do you like the picture of me in my gay gardening hat? I have pink sparkly boots to match. :)

Cous cous salad for busy lives

Ive just made a really nice salad that will keep for a few days in the fridge and is a quick and healthy 'grab' for on the go lifestyles

Combine chopped tomato, capsicum, coriander, mint leaves, spring onion, cucumber - add as much as you like of each - my total amount equalled about a cup.

3/4 uncooked cous cous - add a chicken stock cube, 1 cup hot water, 1/2 teasp butter - leave to 'fluff' and stir occasionally.

Once the cous cous cools add the chopped vegies, stir through.

Add 1 tabs lemon juice, 1 1/2 tabs olive oil, 1 teas red wine vinegar - shake up and stir through the lot.  Its ready to eat at this point or pop in in the fridge the flavours will infuse and it will be yummy for days to come!

To complete the meal add a hard boilded egg, or a can of tuna or salmon and you've got a well rounded, tasty, healthy meal.

Ok raspberries, you win!!

Ok raspberries you win!! I've tried to keep you restrained but you seem to love it here and nothing else seems to. Can you ever have too many raspberries??

Spring has sprung - nov 2012

6 weeks after our red dirt experience and our garden is almost under control. Spuds are starting to poke through and we hope to have fresh spuds for Xmas ( top left). Top right is last years no dig spud patch - rich soil planted out with spinach and broccoli. Last years onions can be seen and a r random spud or 2. Left bottom side has peas planted, some garlic almost ready and the apricot tree has been pruned by the possums again. Bottom right side has last years leeks and freshly planted zucchini seeds and radish and beetroot. Beetroot leaves are extraordinarily good for you so eat them young. Peach tree somehow is not attached by possums. Anyone who why?