Summer 2008

The first summer it was amazing to see what popped up in the garden. Eventhough it was incredibly overgrown and nothing had been pruned or fed for years, the garden still produced some great colour and flowers in unexpected areas.

Looking up into the oak tree

1st Harvest

I started out planting seeds, mostly root crops as they're know to be relatively easy to grow, but also squash, baby pumkins and cucumbers. We ended up with a huge harvest in January 08.

I didn't realise the fine seed from radish and carrot would be so successful, nearly every seed took, meaning a massive harvest!

The deck

As the weather started to improve we really wanted to open up the back of the house and have somewhere to sit outdoors and enjoy a meal or just a beer at the end of the day. Spending most of our time in the city, when we get down to the country we want to take in as much of the outdoors and fresh air as possible.

The southern highlands weather is always unpredictable too so to have a covered outdoor area is really handy. At this stage the deck is open air, but we will enclose it so it's more an extension of the house and another large area for entertaining.