It’s Karl’s birthday today… What does Karl do on his birthday?  He reaps the rewards of his hard work!

Our first time growing onions and they look pretty good to me.  We just started picking the zucchini’s last week.  If you don’t keep picking them daily they quickly turn into giants…like the ones Karl’s holding on the left.  It looks like we’ll be having zucchini birthday cake to celebrate (I’ll update the post with the cake later).  Our first cucumbers of the season are growing quick too.  The vine has hardly even grown and it’s producing already.

What Karl really would’ve loved for his birthday would have been rain (yep seriously).  The last 2 days were forecast for rain and we got absolutely NOTHING.  We keep track of rain on our calendar now since it’s been a rare event over the last year and a half. The last rain we had was 11mm 3 weeks ago.  We were happy with that but we are going to need a lot more than that to moisten this dry parched land and to get our creek flowing again.  We’re lucky we have a big dam we can still draw water out of for the gardens…but it’s getting pretty low.

Karl’s created all these garden beds to fill with all sorts of goodness and he’s just waiting for some good rain to soak it all…lets hope we get some so I can post an update with all these beds filled and flourishing.

So here’s the zucchini cake update…it was so moist and delicious even Tama loved it (and Tama doesn’t usually eat veges)!

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Here’s where I found the recipe if you’re interested https://www.handletheheat.com/easy-chocolate-zucchini-cake/