Gardening Fun with Busy Izzy and Friends

 

 

Here is my song lyric about honey bees:

Who's in the garden, working while we play? 

Who's making honey for us everyday? 

Who's the little worker bee-ing great in every way? 

If you know, if you know, step right up and say.

Honey bees, honey bees, honey bees with big responsibilities. 

Little bees, little bees, little bees need awesome capabilities.

Never tease, never tease, never tease those amazing "littlies".

         Honey bees, honey bees, honey bees. Love my honey bees.   

Did you know that there are more honey bees than other types of bee and pollinating insects? So it is the world's most important pollinator. Approximately one third of the food we eat each day relies on pollination mainly by bees, and other insects, like; butterflies, wasps, moths, ants and beetles. Also birds and flying foxes, too. 

Song lyrics about some of the healthy veggies in my garden: 

The food in my little veggie patch, is positively naturally healthy.

The sunlight and water make it grow, grow, grow!

The soil is organic so i know, know, know!

The food in my little veggie patch, is positively naturally healthy.

Sweet potato, watermelon, peas and broccollini.

Carrots, corn and cauliflower and zucchini.

Are good for you and good for me

because they are nutritious....and

very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,

very, very, very snaxalicious!

Safety first: My suggestions of what to wear out in the garden:

• Hats
• Gloves
  
• Footwear

This is what I use when I'm working in the garden:

• Name the gardening utensils - Hand-held - Trowel, Fork and Rake

Click this link to see Painting pots and potting plants

"You will see my friends and me, having fun in the garden, while working away on a sunny spring day."

What's best to plant right now?

• Autumn 

Veggies: Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Lettuce, Spinach,Snow-peas, Radishes, Beetroot, Carrots, Shallots.                                                        

Herbs: Parsley, Chives and Dandelion too, my honey-bees love to eat these.

• Winter

Veggies: Onions, Turnips, Beetroot, Potatoes, Spinach, Broad-beans, Carrots and Leeks.

Herbs: Chamomile, Dill, Garlic bulbs, Mint, Parsley, Sage, and Thyme.  

• Spring

Herbs: Sage, Basil, Chives, Coriander, Dill, Mint, Parsley, Sage, Ginger and Thyme.

Veggies: String Beans, Beetroot, Broccoli cabbage, capsicum, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, onions, parsnips, pumpkins, radishes, rhubarb, spring onions, squashes, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and zucchini.

Fruits: Watermelon and Rock-melon, Pineapple. I also have a lemon tree and an apple tree.

• Summer

It may be better to plant veggies and herbs by Spring, but Capsicum, Onion, Radishes and Sweet-corn may still grow well. 

Trees - The biggest Plants on our Planet:

Trees provide nectar and pollen for our bees,
And some of the oxygen we breathe comes from trees.
Urban trees and forests save one life every year,
Absorbing harmful carbon from the atmosphere.
Trees help clean the air that we breathe,
And shade us from sun when we sit underneath.
Trees for environmental conservation,
and for birds, insects and wildlife habitation.
These clever trees growing up from the ground
Are vital for survival all year round.

Snaxalicious Snacks at Nix & Nax - with Busy Izzy:

"When I make snacks at Nix & Nax, I use many of the veggies and herbs from my garden and that's why my snacks not only snaxalicious, but healthy too.

Click on the pic below to see my healthy recipes that you can make yourself, at home. There are puppy-snaxelz too!"

Word games with herbs and plants: