Seymour

My butternut plants are doing very well in our vegetable garden. They are growing beyond their allocated area, climbing over the rest of the garden. The flowers remind me of Seymour from the Little Shoppe of Horrors. Some butternut have started to take shape but thwre is no need to plan a menu yet as they are only about 4cm in length. Growing the garden from seed is a test in patience, but everyday offers something delightful. For example, finding the angels singing under the shade of the giant leaves.

See how our greens grow

We cleared a little plot in the garden and prepared it so we could grow our own vegetables. Every morning I would stand at the edge and pray for the seeds to crack the soil, peep through and meet the sun. On the fourth day, our first breakthrough, radishes. Can not wait to add it to a salad. And so every day something new would appear. And even though we planted it and knew it would grow we are still amazed at the wonder of it all. The thunderstorms we have had recently have been unkind to some, the beetroot seemed to have drowned, but kind the others, the butternut and gem squash are flourishing. From time to time we add another seed, at the edges we have planted sunflower and borage and mielies and beans...

Picked from our own garden. Yum!

Vegetable garden layout

All the seedling are in the ground. Now its wait and see. Excited.

Vegetable garden

I needed a distraction from the PrettyUglys so we decided to make a vegetable garden. Not the half-baked effort of last year, ha ha. We have been out every morning before work this week and now it is ready. We are just waiting for the cold snap that is expected this weekend to be over and then we will start planting. It looks like its in the shade but remember, my darling, that the sun travels south for the summer.