my own enchanted broccoli forest

basic soil mix + chook poo + straw + guinea pig poo

These flowers are almost ready to eat...

Two weeks on...

I'm pretty pleased with my broccoli harvest this morning! There's a good three meals here. These were grown from seedlings and now we can use the space in the garden for something else!

We ate these florets in three meals:

* accompanying a beautiful baked barramundi (Jamie Oliver rock salt style) and a huge salad. We shared this meal with 'climate refugees' who escaped Sydney's Blue Mountains during a week of property and life threatening bush fires. Fortunately their home was spared and they were able to return home a couple of days later. We spent a lovely evening eating and drinking and distracting them from the fires which was the upside!

* in a true (lazy) meat and three veg style with mashed potato, organic sausages. Oh - make that meat and two veg. Not an ideal meal.

* steamed on top of a huge tuna salad mountain!

no 'has beans' here

Thanks to the beautiful autumn we're experiencing in Sydney, and the few days of rain last week, I've harvested this lot from the bean and snow peas I planted from seed a couple of months ago. According to this Veggie Guide app from Gardening Australia the beans may be around for a little longer. There are plenty of flowers on the snow peas too so I'm hoping these warm temps and a bit of rain help with crop.

 Tonight these will accompany a very simple pasta bake and feed six of us.