Child of the Planet

After weeks of dry weather, it rained over the weekend. This makes me very happy because my rain collection tanks had run dry. I've been saving water in the shower for the past couple of weeks to pour onto the vegetables. Wasn't enough and scored a lot of end blossom rot this year. Same thing happened last year when I accidentally left a tap open during dry Feb. This year a brass fitting on the hose broke and the tank was drained before I noticed. Lessons for next year are to turn the water off at the tank, and that brass fittings are surprisingly delicate.

I'm starting to feel like this could be some sort of astral plant? Decided to create a series of shapes reminiscent of fungus Any lopped off branches are being moved towards the similar shapes Some of the thin stalks are becoming a concern. I'm spending extra time and energy when moving this thing about.

I've built a studio in the front garden. I think I'll call my second piece 'resting bitch face'.

... that I planted along the driveway. Don't have enough cloth bags so I cut the heads of and are leaving to dry in the sun.

The 'new girl' and the bush tomatoes have started to ripen and the stems are buckling under the weight of the fruit. I did a picking and processed down into juice. I'll freeze it until I"m ready to make sauce and paste.