A windy day

It was way too windy to be outside today. We have so many trees on our property that it is just to dangerous to take the kids out there. I did of course sneak out by myself to check on my seedlings and collect the eggs. 

I have started giving my chickens shell grit in their food and it is making a difference. The egg shells are really hard! Miss 2 has gotten her hands on a few of them and no broken eggs yet! 

The garden bed that I plan on using for this summers tomatoes still has 3 healthy silver beet plants growing in it. I will unfortunately need to pull them out this weekend to prepare the bed for the tomatoes, so tonight was steak with veg (and lots of silverbeet) for dinner. The rest of the silverbeet in the garden will get pulled out and then I will freeze it. 

Ready to steam! 

Thought I would take a pic of my hyacinth that I have sitting on my kitchen bench. It has started to topple over because of the weight of the flower. Any ideas of how I can prevent this?