The Great Outdoors

Hi everyone. It's being good weather at the moment, only forecast to be 31 degrees C (88 F). So I'm outside this morning - mum has some stuff to do outside as well.

I've finished admiring my long schnauzer shadow - and am thinking about the puss cat across the road.

This lovely young female puss cat was adopted by the nice couple in that house. They found her in their bushes - she had lost her home somehow. After taking it to the local shelter, the couple were told that she would be "put to sleep" after 3 days. They couldn't do it - and elected to take her home. They have a big doggie so she gets the front garden and porch, where as he gets the backyard. They are still looking for a permanent home for her. She has come over to my yard before, but I get too excited - so she doesn't anymore!

Check out the funny mushrooms that grow in our garden!! Like teenage mutant ninja ones!! (Mum made it)

Round to the vegie garden now..... what is THIS?????

Wooooho....... this Tomato is almost as big as my head!

Hey MA!!! There's more long ones in here!!!!!

I like it when mum gives me a little one to roll around.

CHECK OUT WHAT WE PICKED TODAY!!!! PAWSOME HEY??!! I have put one of my tennis balls in the pic for scale.

Look at that haul!  And it's just the beginning! Looks like we are gonna be eating a lot of tomatoes for a few weeks!

Update on my, I mean mum's Vegie Garden

Hi - I'm exactly NINE months old today!! Later we are going to Grandpaws' place so mum can cook dinner for him and the rest of the family. Grandpaw always has treats for us!!

This morning, mum let me into the vegie garden to snoopervise on her activities in there. You can look back to a very early post that showed me "breaking into" the vegie garden! I am not really all that good in here because I have big moppie feet and don't know that I am stomping on the plants while doing my usual snoofling!

Here I am in front of the Vietnamese mint - it has gone crazy and is a big bush now!

Overall view - the passionfruit vine has gone NUTS - mum reckons it's like the invasion of the "trifids"!

Passionfruits look purple and here are some we found today!

Behind in here, are the green thingys....yea capsicums....see!

These will get bigger and then go red - that's when I like to eat em!

These ones grow little long weird things like this:

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In this bed are asian small chillies (I'm not allowed to eat them!) and chives and parsley. Most of the green bushes are Tomatoes.

The ones on the top photo are "oxheart" and the bottom photo are "romas". They are still green, they need to go red.

Back behind here are little ones like this:

These are starting to go red now!

Mum's lettuce is just about finished...... 

But her rocket and basil are still going strong.

This pot has a spare cherry tomato bush that she couldn't fit in the garden.

So there you have it. I didn't stomp over too much today (ran over the rocket though!) I had a "baby dig" behind a tomato bush but I'm sure no-one noticed. When the plants are bigger they are more able to cope with my feet. Looks alright in there doesn't it.?? Mum is proud of her HUGE tomatoes - she hopes they will go nice and red and taste good too!