Happy Belated Fall My Friends!

Ahhh fall! LOVE it! But hate what comes after it! Yep not even gunna say that dirty 4 letter word that starts with an S! So how has everyone been? I know my end has been B.U.S.Y! Lots of family activities fun with friends and family! Cook outs cooking in general (for me anyway) crafts decorating and soccer...Yea Loche played soccer this season which was interesting but fun :) Anyway i just wanted to let you all know that i am working my way back to bloggy land! I have heaps of recipes and photos to post and share with u all!

One of my last harvests before it got to cold for anything to survive!

Delish Fall veggies!

Decorating for fall LOVE IT!

Kindergarten Pictures!

Pretty lil Cardinal one fall evening!

I compost! Do you?

Its not pretty by all means but hey it helps with the amount of junk you toss out in your trash bins! Begining of spring SAMS CLUB had these awesome compost bins! And i got one, it lives out behind my back fence by a mullberry bush that never gives any fruit...and its over run with morning glory....i use to just toss stuff out there now and then...until i got the bin that is...well as things got more and more over run....with vines and other crap... what kind of other crap u ask? POISION IVY!! UGH! I personally have never had the stuff we dont have it in australia and up until this summer i really didnt know what the stuff looked like.....apparently our backyard is a great place to grow the stuff! In my flower bed by the "good" mullberry bush i have a bunch of it growing there....its growning by my cucumber out by my fence...and its quickly surrounding the compost bin! Oh and i reccenty found some growing in my bamboo garden! YAY!..... Anyway back to composting... u dont "need" a special bin to compost your house hold veggie scraps! In fact if i had more land i would just have a compost pile... its amazing what grows in those piles! When we first moved here we had a corner that was ugly in the back yard the previous owners used it as a junk pile i guess? I at the time had no plans for the backyard so when i needed to throw some rotting potatoes out...or a mushy tomato out i just threw it on the pile...b4 fall came i had 3 tomato plants grown and some kind of squash i think but not knowing the history of the pile we did not eat any of it and my husband fed the stff to the guinea pigs we had at the time! I read a really awesome book a few months ago it talked about all the different kinds of compost piles u can do and what not, heres a picture of the book check it out next time your at your local library or when your browsing in the book store next!

Here's a couple of pictures of my compost bin!

My bountiful Garden!

Snake Beans

:) Watching my babies get bigger and bigger is exciting stuff! Im not goin to go on i will just show you how well they have done since sprouting!

What do you do with a snake bean?
The crisp, tender pods are eaten both fresh and cooked. They are at their best when young and slender. They are sometimes cut into short sections for cooking uses. They are used in stir-fries in Chinese cuisine. In Malaysian cuisine they are often stir-fried with chillies and shrimp paste (sambal) or used in cooked salads (kerabu). Another popular and healthy option is to chop them into very short cubes and fry them in an omelette.

How good are they for you?

They are a good source of protein, vitamin A, thiamin, riboflavin, iron, phosphorus, and potassium, and a very good source for vitamin C, folate, magnesium, and manganese.
In a serving size of 100 grams of yardlong beans there are 47 calories, 0 grams of total fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 4 mg sodium (0% daily value), 8 grams of total carbohydrates (2% daily value), and 3 grams of protein (5% daily value). There is also 17% DV vitamin A, 2% DV iron, 31% DV vitamin C, and 5% DV calcium. (Percent daily values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Individual daily values may be higher or lower depending on individual calorie needs.)

What do they look like come harvesting time?

Frugal Tomato Cage!

Yep i refused to buy tomato cages! I went to my american parents house (Kev's mum n dad Jim and Margaret) and i cut down a bunch of bamboo and made my own cages! So far so good next step? Making frugal bean and pea stakes/cages!

So thats what they looked like after being staked! Its only been like a week since i did this and my tomato's have gotten so much bigger! My cherry tomato's have 4 lil fruits on em!! I cant wait!