Yeah, I know it's not Spyder related, but this is the 'Off Topic' section, where we can post/talk about anything we want (within reason/some boundaries, of course) and I'd like to know... 
Here in South Oz, where we live in what is arguably the 'best' part of the driest State in Australia, which is generally considered the driest Continent, we basically have a 'Mediterranean Climate', only of late, it has tended to be a bit drier/hotter in Summer (no rain & 40°C+) and wetter/colder in Winter (800+mm/5°C-) than we were used to when I was a kid growing up on the family farm just up the road a bit. I left pretty much as soon as I could cos, cos altho I liked it a lot, I really couldn't see myself staying in a long term career of grubbing around in the dirt, but after doing a lot of other interesting stuff, I ended up having to retire hurt, so I came back to the area a tad over 40 years later, and now I find that I've slipped right back into that 'grubbing around in the dirt' thing, and I'm sorta enjoying how productive it is on so many more levels than just 'grubbing around in the dirt'!
We don't have a big block, and we have moved out & back again a few times for various reasons, but over the 20+ years we've been in this place, I've worked pretty hard on the garden, and I've now got a small but fairly productive veggie garden out the back (with steel rabbit proof fencing dug 450 mm into the ground!) We have a few Citrus trees (lemon, lime, mandarin) in various stages of establishment, but all are producing pretty well; about a 2 squ metre strawberry plot (when the bleedin' things don't turn up their toes on me!) in a home made 'glass-house' that's actually made out of plastic sheeting; a couple of youngish apricot trees that are just starting to produce well; and a few semi-raised veggie plots of about 6 squ metres each, divided up into mini plots that I can easily reach across, in which I'm growing a couple of different varieties each of tomatoes, potatoes, onions, carrots, rhubarb, spinach (mainly the English kind), peas; a few different brassica's (brussels, cauli's, broccoli, bok choy, turnips etc...); and a bunch of 'in-fill' crops, some of which we can pick & eat (radish, mustard, cress et al) and some others that just get dug back in as green manure. I have a mate up the road who shares a couple of barrow loads of cow & chook poop with us every now & then, and two small but working well compost areas, one with a 205 litre tumbler; the other being 3 bays, each about 1/2 cu metre, that I work the old fashioned way (with a fork!) to keep the soil in top nick!
All up, I don't really spend a heap of time on this, probably less than a solid hour a day now, but I do manage to grow enough to keep me'n the Child Bride in whatever veggies are in season and often have enough to share with the 2 'local' kids & their families, plus we try to look after pretty much all of the neighbours who've built around us in the last few years too. Well, everyone apart from the cranky old fart down the road who always complains about everyone/everything in the street, including claiming that I always speed out of the street past his house on my Spyder, even tho I generally crawl out of what's become our little bit of suburbia at less than 10 kph! I did try giving him some fruit & veggies when he & his missus first built & moved in - I packed up a 'Welcome to the neighbourhood' box and when I gave it to him, I suggested that if they told me what they liked out of it, I could probably keep give them more/keep them supplied for the season, but he just took the box inside without a word or even grunt of acknowledgement, kept it for a couple of weeks, basically until everything went manky (I reckon he must've put it under a heat lamp on purpose), then he dumped the lot plus adding some junk mail he'd got back on my doorstep immediately after watching me leave on my morning ride!
Oh well, I guess that's his problem, his loss, not mine!
Anyhow, my questions are - do you have a veggie garden, what time/effort do you put into it, and what do you grow?
Here in South Oz, where we live in what is arguably the 'best' part of the driest State in Australia, which is generally considered the driest Continent, we basically have a 'Mediterranean Climate', only of late, it has tended to be a bit drier/hotter in Summer (no rain & 40°C+) and wetter/colder in Winter (800+mm/5°C-) than we were used to when I was a kid growing up on the family farm just up the road a bit. I left pretty much as soon as I could cos, cos altho I liked it a lot, I really couldn't see myself staying in a long term career of grubbing around in the dirt, but after doing a lot of other interesting stuff, I ended up having to retire hurt, so I came back to the area a tad over 40 years later, and now I find that I've slipped right back into that 'grubbing around in the dirt' thing, and I'm sorta enjoying how productive it is on so many more levels than just 'grubbing around in the dirt'!
We don't have a big block, and we have moved out & back again a few times for various reasons, but over the 20+ years we've been in this place, I've worked pretty hard on the garden, and I've now got a small but fairly productive veggie garden out the back (with steel rabbit proof fencing dug 450 mm into the ground!) We have a few Citrus trees (lemon, lime, mandarin) in various stages of establishment, but all are producing pretty well; about a 2 squ metre strawberry plot (when the bleedin' things don't turn up their toes on me!) in a home made 'glass-house' that's actually made out of plastic sheeting; a couple of youngish apricot trees that are just starting to produce well; and a few semi-raised veggie plots of about 6 squ metres each, divided up into mini plots that I can easily reach across, in which I'm growing a couple of different varieties each of tomatoes, potatoes, onions, carrots, rhubarb, spinach (mainly the English kind), peas; a few different brassica's (brussels, cauli's, broccoli, bok choy, turnips etc...); and a bunch of 'in-fill' crops, some of which we can pick & eat (radish, mustard, cress et al) and some others that just get dug back in as green manure. I have a mate up the road who shares a couple of barrow loads of cow & chook poop with us every now & then, and two small but working well compost areas, one with a 205 litre tumbler; the other being 3 bays, each about 1/2 cu metre, that I work the old fashioned way (with a fork!) to keep the soil in top nick!
All up, I don't really spend a heap of time on this, probably less than a solid hour a day now, but I do manage to grow enough to keep me'n the Child Bride in whatever veggies are in season and often have enough to share with the 2 'local' kids & their families, plus we try to look after pretty much all of the neighbours who've built around us in the last few years too. Well, everyone apart from the cranky old fart down the road who always complains about everyone/everything in the street, including claiming that I always speed out of the street past his house on my Spyder, even tho I generally crawl out of what's become our little bit of suburbia at less than 10 kph! I did try giving him some fruit & veggies when he & his missus first built & moved in - I packed up a 'Welcome to the neighbourhood' box and when I gave it to him, I suggested that if they told me what they liked out of it, I could probably keep give them more/keep them supplied for the season, but he just took the box inside without a word or even grunt of acknowledgement, kept it for a couple of weeks, basically until everything went manky (I reckon he must've put it under a heat lamp on purpose), then he dumped the lot plus adding some junk mail he'd got back on my doorstep immediately after watching me leave on my morning ride!
Oh well, I guess that's his problem, his loss, not mine! Anyhow, my questions are - do you have a veggie garden, what time/effort do you put into it, and what do you grow?
I feed them, 
they feed me!
) Mind you, she lives about 5 km away from the wetlands that we're only 200 metres from (and the Council managed wetlands is where the bleedin' wascally blighters have warrens and breed... well, like over-sexed rabbits! 
) and she suggested that everyone in the district had an issue with rabbits atm, so she thought that we should probably just get used to it... after all, what harm can a few rabbits do?! 
