It's garden journal time again at the end of May - check out Hive account@simplymike's invitation here to write about what's a-growing. It's been SO warm here - unseasonably warm. I can't recall it being so warm this late in May ever - we've just come off a whole week or so of 19 to 22/23 degrees celsius. Chilly mornings, granted, but still, very warm and clear days - I am waiting to wear all my woollies but I'm still wearing sandals and tshirts! Crazy. It'd be lovely if it wasn't spooky.

The most exciting thing about the garden at the moment is BANKSIA. They're renowned for flowing in Autumn - it's like another Spring when the Australian natives start flowering!

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We've been planting more of them because they seem to do well and don't mind it dry. They get barely ANY water all summer. They are such spectacular flowers, don't you think?

In the vegetable garden, the garlic, broadbeans and some brassicas are starting to do their thing. The marigolds are shining bright - they usually go all winter - and the spring onions are still doing their happy cut and come again growth. We eat the tops and never eat the bottom, so they just keep shooting on up.

All the summer vegetables are truly done now - missing tomatoes and cucumbers, though there are still some banana peppers and chillis hanging on the vines, and a few last green peppers I dont think will ripen now. Lots of chives, parsley, lettuce, vietnamese mint, mint and pakchoy - I seem to alternate between Asian meals with last years garlic, pak choy and spring onions and salads with garden herbs and lettuce at the moment, waiting for the Autumn vegetables to be ready to eat. It's just been so dry there hasn't been a real chance to get stuff growing, but there's rain forecast and we have had a little lately - yay. Although that does mean more WEEDS.

I daren't ask how your gardens are going - as the growning season bursts into life in the Northern Hemisphere I get quite jealous! I have recieved some seeds all the way from Oregon from

Hive account@sagescrub and some from

Hive account@quochuy too - some purple okra - can't wait to sow them in a few months. I'm looking at our scrap wood pile wondering what we've got to build a greenhouse - how's yours going

Hive account@digitaldan? Missing the updates! Amazed at all the gardens going here on Steemit - keep 'em coming, and don't forget to use the tag #gardenjournal2018 so we can connect! #homesteading and #homesteaderscoop are also nice tags to use, if you are new and wondering!

Look out for the garden update coming up from Strawbum, one of my chickens - I think she has a slightly different take on what's going on in the Riverflows yard.