How Egg-Citing!!!!
YES!!!! Our chooks have finally decided to lay. Well, one of them hasn’t. Turns out one of our hens is a ROOSTER. So I don’t guess we’ll be getting any eggs from him any time soon!!!!????!!!!
And for our long wait, we have been rewarded with eggs that are very close to regular size. No little tiny eggs….so far.To be honest I was starting to wonder if they were all roosters?????? They’ve taken themselves a little bit of time to actually start laying!!!!!Said Rooster has gone to a new home today. Friends of ours have decided to breed some chickens. We’d like to do that one day….. just not quite yet.
And for your viewing pleasure (or should I say my BRAGGING pleasure), here is my most recent haul from our jungle garden:
9 corn cobs - dipped in boiling water and now residing in the freezer.
bunch of silverbeet - cut cooked and pureed to hide in spaghetti bolognese sauce. 
Two bunches were also given to our very appreciative chooks. That should bring us some eggs nice and high in iron (I hope).
1 apple cucumber - cucumbers weren’t very successful this year. This is my second apple cucumber from a total of 6 plants that I planted. I planted some green ones too but I think they got suffocated by the zucchini plants.
2.5 kg zucchini - grated and in the freezer ready to try out a few new recipes I’ll like to try.
1.5 kg tomatoes - some went in the spaghetti bolognese, some were eaten for lunch and there’s still quite a number left for the next few days.
oh, and 2 stalks of shallots to go into the spaghetti bolognese I was making (not that I think you can see them in the photo).
And because I’ve decided I *need* to keep a gardening journal but incredibly bad at it, I’ve started myself a gardening blog. I’ll still make the occasional post here about gardening but more detail of the day-to-day stuff I’m going to put there. Feel free to have a look if you’re interested. I have no idea at this stage how successful I’m going to be at keeping up with it. But I did find a very pretty template to use. 
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Oh that is exciting!!!! It is always a blast when the chooks start laying after a long wait.
Our chooks are laying too - we went from 1 egg, to 2eggs, and yesterday we had 3! You should have heard the whooping all the way over there in SA! I made sure I had a few older chooks so that we didn’t have to wait toooooo long for the pullets to start! I think we’ve only had them for just over a week, so that is pretty exciting…
What fun
Lv,
Joy
LOL Jodi, you’re getting quite a collection of blogs!
Great haul from the garden and chooks.
Emma.
Another blog, Lightening? How do you keep up? I have a hard enough time with my one.
And WOW on the eggs and the garden haul! So cool! I’m a little jealous. I’d love to have all that home grown food.
By the way, if you’d like to play along, I’m tagging you for a meme.
Chooks eh?
I’d join you with owning them but I’m terrified of their beaks. (They look sharp.)
eggs - I love fresh eggs *sigh* our neighbours haven’t given us any for a while maybe their chooks aren’t laying - but we feed them everyday our scraps.
what a harvest haul - and yum and deceptive ideas.
How long do you dip the corn for ? and then cook it from the freezer ?
I planted some spinach but the dog kind of dug my seedlings and then the rain has mushed them to the ground - have to see if they survive. My 3 zucchini seem okay but time will tell.
I am going to check out your gardening blog.
Thanks for visiting me - I am just learning how to understand editing my template and adding stuff so a very steep learning curve.
Great garden haul and well done to the chooks.
Another hidden use for zucchini - a friend of mine used to make a chocolate cake with grated zucchini in it. I know, it sounds gross but it was really yummy and the zucchini helps to keep it moist. I will see if I can find a recipe somewhere and send it to you. The kids could eat it and not know that its healthy LOL
Woohoo! How exciting!
Joy - I was wondering what that noise was!!!
You did well. We’ve had ours for over 4 months!!!
Emma - tell me about it!!! It’s an illness, I tell you!!! But they all have their purpose.
Jenn - no idea how I’ll keep up yet. I seem to have a LOT to say. And I manage to say it reasonably fast. That helps. This one will still be my main focus and the others will slot in whenever I have something I’d like to say on those topics. The question is, how many people can I find with the time to read all 4????
Frogdancer - I wouldn’t know. I stay well away from their beaks.
Trish - yep, all that HTML stuff can do your head in can’t it???? But it’s a really cool skill to have once you learn it (I expect!!! LOL). Dogs and gardens would be a tricky situation. Sounds like you need a bit of a fence?
Gemisht - I reckon I’ve bookmarked a zucchini chocolate cake recipe on one of the blogs I read (Kate’s I think). I’m considering whether I’ll have a mini zucchini carnival where everyone blogs about ways to use zucchini and then I link to them all in one post. So you’d better get your skates on with that blog!
Kez - yes, finally!!!!
wooho very eggciting!!! I still enjoy collecting eggs each day
Oh, moments like these I wish for chooks - I have to wait for my mother to visit to bring me offerings from hers.
I look forward to lots of good gardening tips - I have been very remiss of late in my own..
Wow, that’s awesome getting so much produce from your own garden! Well done
Luv Lil xox
Very cool! Lots of yummy egg meals in your future.
Those tomatoes look so good! Where I live, it’s winter time now, and we cannot get such nice veggies. Everything on the market comes from green houses, and they don’t taste at all like the summer goodies.
Oh thats cool! The first ones are so exciting. and boy do you ever notice the difference in taste! I’ve become super fussy now and dont eat eggs elsewhere at all anymore!
Your garden is doing fab too, quite envious, mine has kind of died of a lot.
The garden haul looks great. I made Kate’s Zucchini Chocolate Cake and it looks and tastes great. I’m off to look at your garden blog now.
oh look at all that yummy food and those gorgeous eggs.. off to read your garden blog now!
Ali - I can’t wait until my kids are confident enough to collect the eggs. They’re still a little intimidated by them at the moment.
Jeanie -can you have chooks where you are? I know some councils allow them and others don’t. As for my gardening tips - they might be more “what not to do’s” than anything. But I guess that’s still a way of learning.
Lil - Thank you.
Marita - can’t wait until they’re full on laying as it’ll help with my grocery expenses. Yippee!!!! I sure love saving money.
Simonne - there’s nothing like freshly grown, organic vegies is there? We’re lucky here that we can grow something pretty much all year round (no snow, only frost to worry about).
Susan - I hate store bought eggs. If we don’t have our own I usually try to buy from others around the district. Free range in the stores are soooo expensive!!!!
Tracy - can’t wait to try Kate’s recipe!
Thanks for your interest in my gardening blog. Hope you enjoy it.
Kate - thanks. Hope you like my gardening blog. Notice it’s pink??? Not the same pink as here but pink all the same. I’m quite happy with how it has come up and enjoying recording my thoughts and progress with the garden.