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. 
