Wow, nice.  Especially since everything around here is brown and grey at this time of year.

Looks like those lorikeets are fans as well.

Your cat looks like one that I used to have.

~Zoo

Yea, Cats do go crazy over that stuff!

Whatever you do, do not plant Zuchinni!  It will take over the garden!  Your friends and relatives will run at the sight of you!  Fearing you want to give them some more "vegetables"!  I think they actually banned it in Ohio.

Your garden is awesome. I was drooling at the squash. The bird is beautiful. If that's what you do with a rented yard, wait to you get your own place! Delicious.

Awesome garden, mate. Rose and I have been wanting to start a garden. We just need to do it something life is moving so fast before you know it the summer and fall are over.

I love those bird pics. The colors rock.

Hah!  Actually I think someone was trying to give away some of those damned things awhile back. 

~Zoo

Beautiful! It is great to finally see your lovely garden!  What beautiful birds!  Keep up the Green work, Mr. Green thumb!

Zoo,

Thanks mate.  It is absoluely lovely at the moment.  I really do like this time of the year.  Our kitchen looks out on the backyard and I very much enjoy sitting at the kitchen table watching the bird life come and go.

We're fortunate to have them come and hang out in the yard.  They are so much fun to watch.  We've also recently seen Silver Eyes and Fairy Wrens out there too.  What beautiful birds they are.

She is the real ruler of our roost.  Everything we do is designed around consideration of her.  But I wouldn't have it any other way.  She is a great friend to both of us.

Doc,

Don't they what!  The big ginger boy next door loves it as well but unlike Pumpkin (our cat), who wants to roll all over it, he sits there and yowls with delight.  It is quite funny to hear.

We are planning on planting them but more as an Autumn crop.  My concern at the moment is that the squash are going to take over everything else and we'll be 'squashed' out of home   We've probably planted too many but I would rather have lots of fruit than none at all.

Kelly,

Thanks very much.  Those squash taste so good, particularly when stuffed with beef and herbs.  Yum!

As I said, we're very fortunate to have them visit our back yard.  I've mentioned it a number of times before; the bird life is amazing.

We can hardly wait.  We're already thinking about how we'd like it to look and what we'd like to grow.  Nothing like planning ahead, right?

Serenity,

Thanks very much.  I must admit that I do most of the heavy work, while Toni does more of the day to day bits and pieces.  But we do work well as a team and are very happy with the results. 

In my best Yoda voice - YOu will have.  YOu will.

What a beautiful backyard! Mine's all dead and gray right now (and needs mowing too but I'm lazy) and the only "exotic" bird is a neighbors chicken that comes over and scratches around under some pomegranite bushes.

Not sure how I missed this.

These are lovely pictures Maso.  Is the entire yard fence enclosed?  The bird is beautiful.

Hope you enjoy the fruits, or er vegetables, of your labor.

Doc (or should I say Yodoc),

We're going to have lots of cucumber and tomatos, or so it seems.  We ate our first tomatos over the weekend and they are tasty! 

Roy,

Thanks mate.  Our garden doesn't really go dead and gray, not even in winter.  But then our winters are pretty mild in comparison to yours.  There are a few trees that loose their leaves but only a few.  I guess we're lucky in that the garden is nice pretty much all year round.

Tova,

Better late than never.   The yard is fenced on both sides but not across the back.  It is really big and has lots and lots of room.  Toni and I are talking about expanding even further.  We want to prepare another bed for winter vegetables and start our potato heap as well. 

On the opposite side from our garden is a very old shed that the owners are going to remove in the near future.  This space was once used for keeping chickens and we'd love to prep the soil there because it would be rich from all the chicken poop.  Perfect for growing veggies.  We'd love to keep chickens but we really don't have the time at the moment.  However it will be something we do in the future.

Whip,

Thanks very much for the recipe.  It sounds absolutely divine.  We've been stuffing our normal squash with beef mince and fresh herbs then sticking them into the oven for a while.  They taste so good.  I am looking forward to trying out the spaghetti squash when the fruit is ready.

We got a lot of bird life in our back yard, surprising given how many cats live in the area.  I've not yet seen any of the birdlife threatened and would have words if they were.  I think if we started feeding them, we'd have so many birds in our yard, the cats would feel overwhelmed.  Good to see you, by the way.

Nothing better!  The way the bio-engineered the taste out of the store bought ones, the only time you can get real tomato taste is from a road side stand, or your own back yard!

Exactly!  While the supermarket ones might look good, they don't taste like proper tomatos.  I've seen a photo of enhanced tomatos, made tough for travel.  The had a number of them sitting on a brick with another brick on top and they didn't lose shape.