Back to Basics Challenge - Week 3

What's happening in the garden

• Sowing seed
• Dwarf Beans, Climbing beans, cucumber, basil, sweetcorn

• Planting
• Leek border in front garden
• Harvesting
• Tatsoi, pak choy, lettuce, beetroot leaves

• Observing
• Cherry tomatoes ripening, broad beans getting taller daily, leek seedlings starting to come up

• Egg total : 22

What I've been doing

• Planning for The Future
• Thinking about moving pool fence
• Pool electrics need to be fixed before weather warms
• Trying to get blogging/writing time into a structure to stop feeling overwhelmed and taking time away from kids to fulfil commitments.
• Working for the Future
• Weekly menu plan - detailed weekly lunch/dinner plan, used for making a shopping list - working well 
• A lot of writing stuff
• New composting system starting to work well - and got worm farm up and running properly
• Fun Stuff
• Building Community
• Attended kid's school ball - lots of new friends
• Attending Jackie French talk at kids school
• Learn a new Skill
• Old skill reused: Dancing the night away, sipping champagne, feeling tired and seedy the next day and curing it with pizza

• Becoming less porky
• Present weight 75.8kgs (top of healthy weight range for my height: 67kgs)

Week Summary

• Third week of school, spent a lot of it finding socks, washing socks and losing socks
• Weekly food shop under $200
• Have got big possum out of roof - now living in possum box :)  Two little brush tails still getting in
• Removed weed matting from sweetcorn bed, dug over and planted first months planting of corn - 16 plants
• Twittered a lot

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