recouping my losses Dec 13

the infamous Jasmine grapples at the Comfrey which is getting taller daily

 lost a fair number of plants to a combination of predators this week,  the passionfruit , 3 pumpkins, and all my capsicums and chillies dematerialised overnight a fews days ago ... needless to say i felt very disheartened...none of these were particularly small..oh i lost 2 zucchini plants also....it was a massacre.   so today i have put some extra tomato seedlings i had into the capsicum spot and popped a few pumpkin seeds into the now empty mounds, i also lost all my basil parsley sunflowers and marigold seedlings..i know what got them, harlequin beetles ew..hard to kill without nasty poisons..ill have to find the colony. anyway this is how its looking out there today

Zucchini setting little flower buds

Scarlet Runner (2nd year plant) almost touching the netting

Sage and Oregano going great guns, Sage Gnocchi for dinner tonight!

Basil seeds freshly planted with a sprinkling of eggshell it will be a dappled light hot house in there amongst my beautiful San Marzano heritage tomatoes

a non tricky view of the entire garden, the empty patches in midfield the result of the recent massacre

Grapevine relentlessly moves onward providing a nice protective canopy

Columbine seed pods,  the flowers all finished, but this beautiful cottage plant continue to be a visual delight

one of the growing number of strawberry plants

2 Dec

Runner Beans creeping up the trellis

Spuds gone wild!

Parsley seeds almost ready to harvest

Zucchinis settling in well

Grapevine on the loose

Zucchini freshly planted, such elegant leaves