We’ve been starting our Autumnal crop recently, I believe DmentD plans on going into detail so I won’t say too much. We recently transplanted the broccoli, sprouts and tomatoes from their starting trays into our little homemade paperbag pots. We intend on doing garlic and onions too. The pumpkins are.. going.. we’re not entirely sure what’s going on there. Either we’ll have them in time for Halloween or we won’t, either way we’ve learnt something.

The Jalapenos and Bells are just starting to flower and the Jalapenos are producing fruit. I took a selection of photos showing the process, the flower whole, the dead flower with the pepper just starting to push through. A small pepper with some flower buds and then finally the makings of a whole fruit!

The herbs have been doing well, the chives are finally starting to get going, after us spending several months sure they were about to die off any second now! We had so much basil, rosemary and mint we cut it down and dried some out in our shiny new dehydrator (thank you very much to DmentD’s Mum for that). It worked well, had them all dried out in a day at the lowest temperature. We then jarred them and vacuum sealed them to keep them fresh.

We have two dogs over our back fence.. one lovable and friendly, the other, friendly I’m sure, just a little noisy when you get too near the fence. We say hello to them though.

Last week I decorated a cake start to finish at work. It took two and a half hours.. half an hour over my alloted time for it! I didn’t do the writing, I’ve not been deemed good enough to be allowed to do that yet, but I did all the rest, I was fairly proud of it. Next to it is the invite I took the design and colours from.