Garden update!

Our gardens are growing so well!!! (I have misplaced my camera so when i find it, i will post photos). :)

Over the past 6 weeks, Dave and I have planted the following in our garden:

100 tomatoes: green zebra, tigerella, cherokee purple and sungold
60+ peppers: jalapeno, ancho and california wonder (our marconi red didn't sprout).
30+ cucumbers: pickling & green dragon
20 eggplants- tokyo black
100 squash: pumpkins- musquee de provence, spaghetti, zucchini, yellow crookneck
100+ garlic plants (actually, we planted these almost 6 months ago and they are almost ready for harvest).
200+ Genovese Giant Basil
30 Swiss chard (called silver beet here)
200+ bean plants: dwarf fire tongue, cannelini white & purple teepee
4 melons- jenny lind
heaps of leeks, spring onioins, nasturtiums and cilantro.

We also have containers with chives, rosemary, sage, thyme, a lime tree, rhubarb and lemon grass.

My goal for this weekend is to spray round up around the concrete pad that our batch and caravan are on, which hopefully will kill the kikuyu grass. Then, I want to pull out the spring flowers in the front and fill it with all the flowers/ perennials i started from seed, (borage, nepeta, echinacea, rudbekia, Snapdragons, celosia, sunflowers, eryngium, and i think i'm forgetting some).

I have got another cold from the kids at school, but oh well. I'm happy cause i weighed myself and i've lost 15 pounds since i visited the states in August!!! woo-hoooo!!!! A bit more to go and I will have dropped all the weight I put on when I quit smoking. :)

I also have been planning ahead a bit so we can store all our produce we are growing. We can put our sign out in front of the driveway and people can buy stuff, but I also just got some 1L & 1.5L canning jars to keep our pickles and tomatoes in. Yeah!!!