I wanted to use things from the garden as part of my family Christmas contribution. Early yesterday I picked loads of perpetual spinach and what I think is Brazilian spinach. The rocket is in the photo too but thats not for christmas. It took much of the day, but with the help of a borrowed pasta maker made up a bunch of spinach and ricotta cannelloni. Its all frozen now and awaiting some bechamel sauce and cheese on top before it gets cooked on Christmas day. Used up all my dried oregano so drying more today. Is anyone else cooking food to share with family and friends from their garden produce? I often find that what i can serve others is different to what I can serve my immediate family.

This is great forecast for the coming Christmas, definitely going to hot in my part of Australia. I am just planning for Autumn now as it's my best time if the year for gardening and making compost

I like to always be one step ahead in each season. Here I am building soils, raising areas to direct water and store water right where it falls. I do it by cold composting bales on site. Once they age I then plant into them. These will be ready for planting this Autumn and winter. I have been doing this for ten years now, works on all soil types. Have you tried it, still do, had success or going to try? Once they are spongy they are ready to plant

My little Napoli Dwarf Tomato has a fair set of fruits. Also some flowers, so should produce a good little harvest. I think it will be worth collecting the seeds from this. That's if it pumps out enough fruit. As it only grows to 50cm I guess I can't expect to much more.