Salad Patch

After a concentrated effort yesterday there's now three - no four - types of lettuces, 3 types of capsicum, oodles of sweet basil, some fresh coriander and a few strawberry plants all planted up in pots and the vegie patch. Now it's just a matter of waiting to see which ones take, which ones survive the snail onslaught, and which ones survive my erratic watering regime. Most of the plantlings look pretty good this morning: a few of the baby rocket are not at all happy in their new bed, but there were so many of them that I think I'll have enough to eat until mid-summer.

There's still a bit of space in the vegie patch so I shall consider what else to plant. The garden centre was offering beetroot which didn't inspire me - I like beetroot but it is so messy to handle - all that red bleed.

I think I'll try some aubergines (eggplant). Then I can be self-sufficient in ratatouille for a few weeks!

Was alerted just now by the dogs barking - their distinctive "There's something really interesting in the garden" bark - usually a snake or a lizard. This time it was a blue tongue lizard - furtunately it was on the other side of the fence else Bozo would have tried to play with it. And his idea of play involves biting and eating so that is not good news for any accidental playmate. Penny, my other cavalier, will also bark at the wildlife, but she doesn't try to get physical with them.

Here's the lizard, safe under the neighbours steps.