Our Family Garden

Its been raining and raining and raining again. Thank goodness today was bright and sunny! The garden had a little trim today; I got in there and cut away all the dead leaves off the tomato plants so the light could get thru. Seriously, its been so dense that absolutely no tomatoes are ripe yet! They’ve been growing and growing and there are tomatoes as far as the eye can see (if you peer between the leaves). But no ripe ones.

We’ve been picking and eating snow peas galore which is lovely. I didnt think they’d do any good after most of them turned yellow. They came back ok thou and now all the plants have shot up to the top of the wire fence and are bearing pea pods. Nothing exceptional is happening to the corn; although its gotten a little taller. We’ve lost two more zuccini plants, no sunlight equals no growing unfortunately! I just never imagined the tomatoes would grow so tall. My carrots have mostly all come up beautifully. I’m too scared to weed the garden now thou in case they accidently get pulled out. I’ll probably wait another week or two before weeding. Just an indication of how tall the tomato plants are… I’m 5 foot 5 and THEY’RE TALLER THAN ME! They’re only supposed to be cherry tomatoes; I thought the plants would be smaller?

Since beginning this little project my dreams have changed. Tis wierd to think so but its true. I always envisoned my perfect life to be building/buying a house and thats pretty much it. Now I want to live out of town a little, with a house and a small paddock. I want a sizeable veggie patch where I can grow beans, carrots, potatoes, a mandarin tree, tomatoes and other stuff. I also want the typical chook pen with 5 or 6 Bantams (beacause they’re just so adorable!), 3 or 4 ducks and 2 geese. I want the ducks and geese for meat and the Bantams for eggs. I also want a sow. Yup; you read right. 2 grown ups (sort of LOL), 4 kids, 6 chooks, 4 ducks, 2 geese and a pig. She’ll be an older english variety; havent chosen what sort yet as I will need her serviced which will be easier if there’s a local breeder around. And I’ll breed her for piglets for my supper! It wont be as bad as that because she wont be a commercial sow, I’ll only need her to have a litter once a year or so and she’ll be our pet once she’s past breeding. She’ll be a free range sow with the run of the paddock except for the very well fenced veg patch and chook pen. I can see me now calling the chooks back in at night with the help of my trusty kelpie, tending my garden in the morning with the dew still dripping of the leaves. Watching the kids run around enjoying the space and laughing at the piglets trotting after their mum. Sounds good to me! Do you think I’ll fit it all in one padock? Dreams are grand arent they?!