Our Wee Farm

A garden day.

Having been away for a full-on long weekend in Melbourne, then arriving home to find that we were going to have to get immediately into a few, unexpected 12 hour days at work, we were pretty tired by the end of it! However, today has been absolutely lovely ~ just being home and gardening, cleaning and hanging out with the dogs. Bliss.

The work we did in the veggie garden before we left was lovely to come home to. I spent the day in there weeding, clearing and digging. Our winter veggies are coming along nicely. The peas are always great at this time of year, but I've been surprised at just how well all the beans are doing. The barlotti have flowers and teeny pods on them already. Silverbeet always grows quickly. We also got some cabbage, red cabbage ( yum!), more brussel sprouts ( the cabbage white's are having a field day with the ones I planted already) and cauliflower so I'll plant them out tomorrow ~ if I still have any feeling left in my back after all the digging today!

There are still chillis coming by the basket load. The ones in the photo are Thai ones. Lloyd made a sauce today with scotch bonnets, thai chillis, peppers and hungarian chillis.

Recipe for Sue
Take chillis ~ wash and remove stalk - 150 Thai chillis, 50 hungarian chillis, 20 habaneros. Cook them in about 200ml of tawny port and 200ml mix of cider vinegar and wine vinegar and some salt. Simmer until chillis are soft. Once soft put the lot through the blender, then mouli to get rid of seeds. Put sauce back into a pan and simmer for 20 mins and remove any froth/scum from top. Then bottle! Voila.

This is one of the wee chooks that Maude hatched on the 1st of January. She's a cross between a Minorca ( one of the black ones) and a New Hampshire Red. She's my favourite, her markings are really lovely. She's smaller than the rest and they chase her a wee bit at food times, so I sneak her round the back of the chicken house and feed her treats!

I've called her Sparrow