Gardening is easy... I promise!

Every month I get this really cool email from this website. It's inspiring, it is!

So far it's inspired me to do all this.

I've planted out Cauliflower, cabbage, celery and peas.

The peas don't seem to be happy.

I'm praying for them.

I've sown some kind of red capsicum from seeds I harvested from a shop-bought one. Believe it or not they are actually germinating in there - I checked yesterday.

Maybe this will actually work, then again, the seeds are probably hybrids so maybe not...







These are Sub-Arctic Tomatoes. I don't know if they are germinating or not, when I dug around a few I couldn't find the seeds... They're gone!

There is one in the foreground that has a little sprout coming out of it. It might be a little baby tomato plant.

So far my seeds-in-toilet-roll-inners has been a good idea.

It worked with the pumpkins.

Also seeds from a shop-bought pumpkin. So maybe it won't work.

I'm just so proud that they germinated! I've never germinated anything in my life!







Now if I could just do something about the snails!!!

I hate snails. I have no idea where the wisdom was in their creation.

I'm sure that one day, during the course of eternity, I will find out, but for the moment I hate them.

For my kiwi readers: Mitre 10 has MacGregors Snail Bait on sale this week for $1.77.

I stocked up!


I also have two more gorgeous heirloom pumpkins to plant out.

These came from Treena and apparently are called tripods or something because they look a little weird. I'll be sure to post a photo (and save tons of seeds!) when I get some.

The back are heirloom tomatoes.

Also from Treena.

We love Treena.


Already planted out a couple of the heirloom tripod pumpkins. They look like they are surviving.

I just need to watch the stupid snails!











This pile here came from....

















...this bed here.

That is what you get for ignoring your flowerbeds for two years.

Currently very thankful to the One who created preggie nesting hormones because I'm getting quite a bit done!










For those interested I'm currently reading these books:
500 Popular Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits & Nuts for New Zealand Gardeners

Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting

Yummy Dinner Bake

Welcome back to your place for easy dinner recipes. As in, barely any effort at all...


The most work here was the chopping of the veg.

Potatoes, Kumara (Sweet Potato), Pumpkin and Onion.

Spritz with oil.

Lots.

And then cover with a packet of dehydrated thick vegetable soup.

Mix it all together...

... spritz some more oil on it...

...and then cover and shove it in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius (350 Fahrenheit) for about an hour or so.

It's easy and yum.



If you want to turn this into a one dish meal - add in some diced bacon bits.

My friend Melanie taught me this and she does it with mushrooms and capsicum as well. I would too, except we have run out of mushrooms and capsicum for this week. Hope you enjoy!

PostScript:
Melanie just pointed out the unforgivable fact that you're also meant to put chunks of garlic in it. Can't believe I forgot the garlic!