I'm back 2010

hi all,
It's been 7months since my last post and it's been a very long 7months. So what's been happening I hear you ask - well not a heck of alot. The vege garden was taken over by weeds, overgrown grass, bad weather and my lack of energy to follow through with my winter "to do list".

In the last few weeks I've planted a new crop of plants - tomatoes, zucchini, sweet corn, lettuce and dwarf peas. A friend is going to give me some more tomato plants, watermelon and few other plants. I'm also still going to take advantage of the back section, that once again needs a major manicure to get it ready. Hopefully with any luck I can sell the excess at the front of the house and make a bit of cash to put back into the garden and buy a few supplies as well - it's all about self sufficiency especially in these tough economic times.

My dad and I have a few ideas to collect rain water so I'll keep you posted about how this is going. It seems a waste of money to use water you pay for (water rates) when it comes for free from the sky.

I may also look at starting a vege. collective - eg...getting the neighbours together to start gardens in their own backyards, sharing the work, knowledge and produce. Need to do a bit more research with regard to the details but I saw this idea on UK garden show on the living channel.

I also get alot of ideas from youtube, a big thanks to all those people who make videos of what you do and share it with the world. Knowledge is power.

So many things to do with so little time.