A Summer Garden

The good rains have helped us to make a excellent start. Usually our Summer garden fails dismally but we have high hopes for this year, and during an extended dry period we will endeavour to lavish our garden with much more water than we usually do. We have sort of learned that water is the key and the generous amount of recent rain has shown us that. Everything is growing fast! From left to right in the picture above we have: carrots, butter beans, cherry tomatoes, last season's silver beet (still producing), comfrey, and spinach. We also have basil growing along with thyme and rosemary. Each night, especially a wet one, Peter has to go out with a torch to dispense with snails. That seems to be working and the population is down for a few a night.