Salad garden is in action

A couple of weeks ago we dug over and chook-proofed an existing garden bed to be our salad garden (it gets a fair bit of shade from our big tree out the front and the house, so the lettuce etc. won't go to seed too quickly). The other day, while I was sick, Peter installed a sprinkler system (there are no outside taps on that side of the house so the options were either, get a mega long hose, cart watering cans around there or run irrigation piping under the house from the existing outside tap). Today, I finally got around to planting some seeds in it, in the hope that we will have salad greens in time for Christmas (although I'm slightly afraid we might have left it a bit late!). I'll put up some photos of it some time, maybe once the plants have started to grow - at the moment it just looks like a bare dirt prison, so not very interesting.