The Vegie Patch and Pickled Beetroot

This is my Lovely New Vegie Patch

I've always worried about the chemicals that are used these days on the fruit and veg we buy, so last year I got serious about becoming more self sufficient and growing my own. Hence, "The Vegie Patch"  was made. I love it... it's so rewarding to grow and eat your own produce, makes me feel healthy just thinking about it and I'm sure I'm a couple of kilos lighter haha! So I was on a roll and now wanted a few chooks, once again we set to work and turned part of our back yard into a chook yard and create the Taj Mahal of chook houses...seriously, I could easily live in it. (more about the chooks later)

My first priority for planting in the new garden was a big crop of basil. Each year in March, our friends from Melbourne come for a huge sauce making weekend and on the Saturday I'm usually running around town to all the vegie stalls collecting as much basil as I can find to add to the sauce.(more on the sauce weekend later :-)) Since then I've had some lovely crops of rocket, spring onions, silver beet, chilli, snow peas, beans and beetroot. We're now anxiously waiting on the tomatoes and zucchinis which are just about ready....yay!

 

 



Isn't this the cutest little zucchini you've ever seen?
 

 

I've just picked my second crop of beetroot and decided to pickle it using the recipe from one of the blogs I follow called down---to---earth.

 

FROM THIS!

 

 

 

By the way this is my WHOLE crop here!

 

TO THIS!

 

 

 

Very happy with the result, thank you down---to---earth. xo

 

 

That's all for today so bye for now xo