Self sufficiency - My Way

A few weeks ago I went on a self sufficiency bender! I was sick of paying such high prices for vegetables. We had this lovely mint patch that had been overtaken by a horrific weed so I got some carpet from the recycling centre (which was the perfect size) and placed it over these ugly weeds, bought some pea straw and loaded that on top and put in some silverbeet and brocolli. These has started to do well. I actually planted these before the cold weather spell so were lucky to survive.

At the same time I bought some seed potatoes (Jersey Benne) and have left to sprout until now. I have been saving all the newspapers to turn another patch of ugly weeds into productive growth and today placed all the papers on top of the weeds, really thick, put out some pea straw and planted my spuds.

I feel that between $4 and $5 is far too much to pay for a cauliflower or a cabbage. Dh reckons you can't grow cabbage here because of the white butterfly - watch this space in time for next winter!!!!

Is life really so boring?

I just don't seem to have anything to report for the past month. It has been a case of tighten the belt, think 3 times before taking the car out and when I do go out, cram as much as I can into the outing - quite stressful really, but hey, that's life!

I have been doing a wee bit of scrapping and putting together a couple of baby photo albums to send out to the mothers of the babies. That reminds me, I must take photos so that I can refer to them if I do another one.

Well that's it from me on this wet and dismal Saturday