It is a sad state of affairs when meer months ago my garden was thriving, and now it is a cest pool of cobblers pegs, crazy latching vines, and annoying nut grass. *sigh*.

This footage is *cringe* about two weeks old now, and after I filmed this I did a massive plant up. The good part about that is that the garden is now looking much friendlier and yummy!!

So here’s a bit of tour of some of the new things in our garden!

Two types of lavender...

Lavender… one of my favourite smells…

Cute baby capsicum!

Capsicum… aren’t the cute?!

An itty, bitty watermellon!

Watermellon… Oh so tiny!

Cherry, Gormet, Yellow and Black Russian!

Many varieties of Tomato… These flowers will become little cherry tomatos!

The lemon (lemondae variety) is nearly ready to flower!

Lemon Tree… can’t wait to see what these flowers are like!

Zucchini flower... yum!

Zucchini… perfect for making lots of zucchini soup!

Remember when Luke made me my super pot? Well, since then I’ve planted up all my other herbs into tyres (as well as some in the pot Luke made), and straberries and what not in the back garden bed. Nanna gave me a stack of beautiful cane mulch for Christmas (I know, SHAME it has taken my nearly 6 months to do something with it!!), and while Luke is out shopping for my birthday presents (!!!) with Hay & Mon, I decided to invest the time is getting rid of weeds, and using up the much!

Also, it is my birthday on Wednesday, and Luke organised for my family and a few of our friends (unfortunately not all- it was pretty booked out) to go down to the Jazz club in Brisbane on Friday night. If you have not been (and live in QLD) then you MUST go, it is absolutely the best place ever!

And I love my Mum & Dad. They are so cute and in love, and it makes me happy to go out with them. I could seriously just chat with them for ages and not get bored.

I thought it was so great, and I feel so lucky to have someone who thinks of me and does special things for me! I wanted him to be my guest blogger, and tell you all how he made it, but he declined… he said you can all make it yourselves using the instructions he found on instructables. So I’ve linked to them here.

I’ve only had this for a few hours now, but I’ve already planted Thyme and Pepermint in the top two tiers! I think they’ll do well there- in the shade a bit. They don’t so much like the harsh soil, and harsher sun in the back garden.

I’d love to know if you make one of these yourself! What do you like to plant your herbs in?

Here are some tomato babies!!

Some other tomatos live in the garden part. They’re here. Also in here is a cucumber plant next to it (hard to see), and on the bottom level is lettuce, basil and tyme.

Close up of the baby lettuce!! SO cute!

We had a problem with the side of our house- it is majorly ugly. It’s tin, so we can’t put dirt up against it or it’ll rust, and we can’t dig out the dirt already there, cause it’s REALLY hard. SO we’ve put these tires there.

They look pretty cool next to each other (goes with the tin look), and will look better when there’s more of them.

They’re full of soil, so the roots can mess around in there for a while, and then when they’re stronger they can make it down into the hard soil.

Lemon basil and cute flowers by the door.

My zuchini plant! They’re yellow zuchinis and are grwoing swimmingly. I’m actually going to pretty well leave these to scurry all over the feild…

These photos and more on facebook here.

I guess this means I will have to be a more active blogger… (don’t count on it).

Photos from making my garden on the weekend:

Putting soil in…

We had tomato plants growing near the sewage!! How crazy is that!!

More photos to come…

My potatoes are sprouting up REALLY well, and so Pepper and I did some gardening this morning- putting more soil on the potatoes so they continue to reproduce, and also watering all the herbs, and other vegies. We also dug up some new soil for the next vege garden, and found some old sleepers to make a herb garden with. Pepper was pretty excited about the shovel… she liked to try and bite it.

We’ve also done a bit of cleaning, and I made zucchini and basil soup for lunch. It was (suprisingly) VERY yummy. Luke loved it (!!!). I will post up the recipe some time soon (remind me). I’ve also done a bit of wii fit, which Luke is forcing me to do an hour of seeing as I ate a dominos pizza last night (not the whole thing, just half).

I also spent a bit of time cleaning up my work area, and setting up the G4. I am planning on sifting through that and putting all the content I want to keep on the external hard drive. Then Luke said something about setting it up as a server… or something like that. I was distracted at the time. I also want to set up a windows/ ubuntu machine, so that I can test the things I make in different operating systems. It’s always good to have one of each. not to use as the main computer though- only my baby mac mini for that.

You can look forward to seeing more Pepper videos in the future, as she’s getting a few comments on viddler, which is making me happy (comments always do!). Of late I am also enjoying watching pixar short films on youtube- something I don’t usually do, but it keeps away any signs of boredom (unless you count that as an actual sign of boredom).

We were going to hang out with Rachel & Aaron tonight, but they’re busy. So I think we’ll just watch a movie and chill. Kebab skewers for dinner, yum!!