False Garden Mantid

Immature female?, False Garden Mantid Pseudomantis albofimbriata

Bees collecting water to cool the hive

Collecting water to keep the hive at 35 degrees

40 degrees tomorrow

Shadecloth over the vegies

Satsuma Plums almost ready to eat

First Tomato in Bags

Tomatoes planted in bags of potting mix and now hanging from the clothes line

New Fronds on Autumn Fern

Dryopteris erythrosora (Autumn Fern, Japanese Wood Fern or Japanese Shield Fern)

New Asparagus Shoots

Asparagus officinalis

First Eggplant about to be Eaten

Eggplant  (Solanum melongena) grafted onto Solanum Aculeatissimum?

Cucurbits and a Capsicum

Button Squash Cucurbita pepo 'Yellow Bush Scallop', 'Lebanese'

Apples filling the codling moth socks

Bee

Damselfly on Male Sweetcorn Flower

More cucurbits

Button Squash Cucurbita pepo 'Yellow Bush Scallop'

More pumpkins

Grown from fresh seed from the second last pumpkin from last year

More Sweetcorn

Zea mays convar. saccharata var. rugosa

Fusarium Wilt on Tomato

Australian Emperor Dragonfly

Hemianax papuensis

Sweetcorn Female Flowers

Summer Evening Spider Web

Waiting for someone to walk into

Fluffy Bums Must Die

Nymph of Passionvine Hopper (Scolypopa australis)
Apparently known as Fluffy Bums in NZ
The cute name didn't save them.

Passionhopper poo

Artichoke

Cynara cardunculus

Planted More Sweetcorn

The chooks got the cabbages and I get more room for sweetcorn

First Eggplant!

First fruit on the grafted eggplant

(Solanum melongena + Solanum capsicoides?)

Bees Drinking

Water is collected and used to cool the hive - maintaining the temperature at about 35 degrees

New Leaves on the Platycerium

Northern Elkhorn (Platycerium hillii)

Mulched Sweetcorn and Cucurbits

Shadecloth and Garlic

Picked 2kg garlic (Alium sativum)

First Tomato!

Chooks at the Grandpas Feeder

The training is over and they are now certified to open the lid by themselves

Passionvine Hopper

Passionvine Hopper (Scolypopa australis) on my grafted eggplant

Tomato Flowers

Solanum lycopersicum