Back into the swing of things...

As I mentioned in an earlier post I lost a number of my plants in some extreme hot weather we have had recently.  I am fortunate that I do get full sun for most of the day in my garden which, for the most part, is exactly what it needs but then occasionally we get this freakish 40C and above weather.

This past week or so the temperatures have been in the twenties so I have taken the opportunity to replenish and replant.

I am fortunate indeed to have a husband who works in a building supplies chain and is able to get us a good discount on anything we need in the way of plants and gardening supplies!  So I grabbed a few things...

Last year I happened upon some sweet potato seedlings.  I wasn't exactly sure how to grow them - whether you had to keep mounding them up like regular potatoes so they were a bit of an experiment.  After several months the leaves all started dying so I thought I had better pull them up and to my surprise found a heap of fabulous sweet potatoes underneath.  When I saw the seedling again this year I was quick to grab three for myself and one for Mum!

I also stocked up on spinach, parsley, a yellow caspicum and some white eggplants (just to be different).  I also bought some Rockmelon seedlings to try but I am going to have to read up on how to grow them.  It says on the tag to grow them on a trellis or fence (which I am) but I would have thought the rockmelons would be too heavy for that.  We shall see.  It's all about experimenting here ;)

The kids are starting to embrace the garden philosophy slowly and when we went to pick these out they both wanted to choose some plants of their own.  The both wanted a strawberry plant and then Laila fell in love with the purple Petunia and James the plant with the weird orange 'flower'.  He was quite chuffed with it when I told him I thought it was a very 'boy-ish' plant and not a pretty one like the one Laila picked hehe.

The garden bed is in need of some enrichment so I have been turning it over and digging in some compost.  The pots are coming along well too and I still have some spare spaces to fill.

I have plans to do more out the front (where my pumpkins live) but am waiting for some cooler weather as it is going to be quite a big job!  I will talk more about that another time.