Back in the swing of things...

Well, we had a lovely family holiday away for 4 days and now back into the routine of everyday life.

This afternoon after playcentre, the kids and I let the chickens out to have a roam around (and discovered that the broody chicken was no more! yay!). I had tried last week to have her contained in the separate coop inside the larger one but couldn't bring myself to do it for longer than a day and night. I tried several times but each time she'd race back for the nest pretty straight away. However, sometime over the weekend she got over it (well, I'm hoping!) since every time I've gone down there she's been walking around, so a good sign at least.

The kids helped me out with some weeding. I could hardly see the corn seedlings for the weeds!

We're now eating peas, silverbeet, beetroot, lettuce and cabbage. My broccoli's are definitely starting to grow heads now. It's taken a while, but I'm not fighting the caterpillars as I was last year when I planted them in spring, and hopefully they'll be harvested before it becomes a problem. I'll definitely do some brassica's over winter again next year and avoid them over the warmer months. A lot of my tomatoes also have little flowers forming which is exciting.