Busy few days... and Boys V's Girls

 

 This time or year is so busy, time just gets away, this last week has just flown by and I'm left wondering what I did? On face value it seems like I've done nothing but if I think about it ALOT has been done this past week!

I've picked LOTS of zucchini's and I mean LOTS I now have several lots of quiche in the freezer and gave some quiche away. I still have the large one I picked a few days ago waiting to be stuffed. I have 7 others still waiting to be used I picked today, I'm wondering what other people do with all their zucchini's?
Who cares to share their recipe?

We picked our first cucumber yesterday and it quickly found itself on sandwiches for lunch. Today we picked our first capsicum and although small was very tasty in tonights stirfry, can't wait for more.
The Bok Choi was also great in the stir fry tonight, although I found a white moth enjoying some earlier too! We get a handful of beans every few days, I didn't plant nearly enough it seems, (live and learn). Think I might plant some more tomorrow.LOTS of green tomato's I'm wondering if its ever going to be warm enough for them to turn red?
We seem to be spending more days like this....

Although the rain is nice we need some warm weather to move things along and ripen up those tomato's.

So who knows the difference between "boys" and "girls" ? Silly question really, well not really alot of people don't know their veggie flowers come in boy and girl varieties! So I thought I'd show you with these photos I took in the garden, as Mason who is 5 says "you can tell the girl one shes the one with the Baby and the boys do nothing" I had no choice but to agree hehe

Cucumber girl flower

Cucumber boy flower

Zucchini boy flower

 

Zucchini girl flower

Pumpkin girl flower

Pumpkin boy flower

  Once its pointed out its very obvious which are boys and girls. If they boys don't pollinate the girls with the bees help (or some human help) then the girl flowers just drop off without growing. The bees here seem to be doing a great job if the amount of  zucchini's are anything to go by!

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What a difference a few days make!

Just a few days ago it was so wet, I hadn't had to water my garden for a few weeks, now I'm back to watering and thinking I need to put more straw on, as some of the beds are getting a little thin and drying out very quickly.

We picked our first zucchini:)
We will have quiche this week YUM!!

The bees are out doing their thing too now the rains stopped!

I've never liked bees, (they scare me more than spiders) I don't have a good reaction when stung, but must admit I did enjoy watching them yesterday going from flower to flower doing their thing.

Our beans are covered in these amazing flowers, they are so pretty and delicate.

 

I've had a lot of people ask for more photos of this little guy/gal, I'm not sure if its a he or she and not sure what breed as the eggs were given to us. So I tried to get better photos, boy was it hard work!! 

Aprox 3 weeks old now

Hiding behind Mum as I tried to take photos

 You can see its not a happy camper with me snapping away hehe Fingers crossed they give a better idea of what he/she is??

At a guess we are thinking buff orpington girl? 

But I have no really clue...it's like asking a weather man if its going to rain tomorrow.   :)

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