In my garden….

When we were little we had a tape with lots of kids songs on it. One was about the garden:

In my garden, there is a little kowhai tree in my garden, and it’s just about as tall as me. (It went through all the native trees- rimu, matai, pohutukawa etc…)

(There was also one: there are pigs wearing wigs in the garden, eggs with legs in the garden, you get the picture!)

We don’t really have a garden to speak of at the flat- Pedro would soon see to it, but there is a space out the back where someone has had a garden in the past- a row of strawberries that need weeding and some unruly bok choy plants. Inspired by the feeling of picking bok choy and adding it to a stir fry I decided to put a few things in for the coming spring/summer season, so that means starting to grow some seeds and digging over the garden now.

This afternoon Michael and I headed up the road to the gardening shop and picked out some seeds each. I chose a lettuce mix, cherry tomatoes and a zucchini. Michael chose some herbs- coriander, basil, chives and oregano. We made some little pots by wrapping wet newspaper around a spice jar and dunking in water, filled them up with seed-raising mix and planted our seeds.

They’re sitting on top of the fridge in a warm spot, quietly germinating (or at least we hope so!)

 In other, exciting news, on our walk this afternoon I was thrilled to find spring blossum begining to bloom. Will take my camera with me and report back tommorow!