What are these plants? POTATOES!

Heaps of them in the compost, growing fast. 

I asked on the Ipswich Gardener's Facebook page, and they are potatoes!! 

How on earth do I know when they're ready?!

I haven't sewn any potatoes with eyes, so all I can think is that they have come from some of Mum's compost peelings!

10 Oct 2019 - Ladybirds in the patch!

 

Newest fishtail palm leaf

Ooo she is grand!

25 Sept 2019 -

27 Sept 2019 -

7 Oct, 2019 -  I still wonder at her, and think she is beautiful - 

Air drying tomatoes

Not home grown - bought these at a local veggie shop. Mum wanted some dried so here they go.

Spot the neighbour's cat

You can just see her tail disappearing behind the banana leaves!

Swept the street gutters

I do this from time to time - after mowing the lawn (yesterday) or whip-snipping, I sweep the debris from the street gutters surrounding my place. I like to prevent all the mess from going into the storm water drain and clogging it up. It goes in the bin, to land fill.

Usually I then trim the tops of the creepers growing over the fence, to keep them in trim and neat. Then I rake and put that debris as compost on the front bed under the red-robins.

Then I'm happy that things look tip-top.

It's the Autumn Equinox today - in the Northern Hemisphere. 

On this day, there is no tilt to the earth's axis, which means it stands straight up and down, resulting in an equal amount of light and dark for everyone on the planet. 

Apparently, due to differences between the calendar year and the tropical year, the September equinox can occur at any time from September 21 to 24.

Third jacaranda tree + flowers!

Bought this one at the Ipswich Sunday markets on 25 Nov 2018. She seems to be going ok.
All her leaves fell off, as per the season, but the top seems to be growing still.

27 Sept 2019 -  She's growing still! Much higher than her stabilising pole now!

4 October 2019 - I do believe there are tiny flowers budding at the top here!

5 Oct 2019 - These buds are looking promising!

7 Oct 2019 -

11 Oct 2019 -  Little jac is now taller than I am! (Warning - this is my just-woke-up face!)

13 Oct 2019 - Can we please have some purple soon?!

18 Oct 2019 - Dubbs 54th birthday - we have flowers!!

21 Oct 2019 - 

New fish tail palm leaf

This has taken an age to come out, but it looks like it's time for it to be 'born'!

20 Sept 2019 -

21 Sept 2019 - 

22 Sept 2019 - How appropriate that the new leaf is 'born' in this, the day of the fourth year of me living here.

2pm, 22 Sept 2019 - 

With it's 'umbilical cord' attached -