Wishing you all a Christmas touched with wonder and filled with jo...
Merry Christmas
25 December 2014
10 November 2014
October in the Garden
October in the vegetable garden was a time to clear out the
old plants, and plant the new. As you can see in the photo below I have already put shade cloth over two thirds of the garden, actually I have done it twice as a few days after I put it up the first time the...
30 October 2014
This and That
Ominous looking hail storm clouds that thankfully passed over.
Flower head of the artichoke thistle that grows wild in uncultivated paddocks.
Baby Noisy Miners waiting to be feed.
We are lucky enough to have a family of Blue Tongue lizards make our...
28 October 2014
Harvest Monday
The unseasonably hot weather brought the garlic harvest time forward a couple of weeks and I am happy to say that it is a very good harvest this year.
I planted 72 cloves and harvested 69 bulbs.
Some were a bit strange looking.
There were a couple of triple headers...
16 October 2014
Making Jam
It is something I had wanted to do for a while
now but have always felt intimidated by the whole process. That all
changed when I bought 4 1/2 kilos of strawberries for five dollars at
the markets. I have no idea what I was thinking, but they were too good of a bargain...
30 September 2014
Harvest Monday
Time for another Harvest Monday, where gardeners from around the globe get the chance to show off what they have harvested from their gardens, hosted as always by the lovely Daphne.
This week I harvested the last 3 cauliflower from the garden.
Some asparagus and podding...
24 September 2014
The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra la
With so little happening in the vegetable garden at the moment, I thought I would share some of what is happening in the flower gardens right now. Enjoy!
Snap dragons
Nemesia
Geraldton wax "Raspberry Ripple"
Scabiosa "Samantha's Pink".
Wonga Wonga vine,...
03 September 2014
Garden Share Collective September 2014
It's September, already! Is it just me or does this year seem to be flying by at an alarming rate.
August was a month of unseasonably warm weather during the day, cold nights and no rain.
What's been happening in the garden? There are blossoms on the plum and orange...
19 August 2014
Harvest Monday
I picked the last of the Green Dragon broccoli this week as well as the first two cauliflowers.
The two broccoli heads weighed 500g and the cauliflower weighed 1.1 kilos. The second cauliflower was not as big weighing 360g.
I will be picking a lot more cauliflower over...
05 August 2014
Harvest Monday
This week's harvest consisted of broccoli (950g), carrots,
and the last
of the sugar snap peas (total weight
483g) and beans (total weight 1kg).
I also dug out my potatoes which were looking a little worse for wear and ended up with 6.9 kg altogether.
Red Delight...
17 July 2014
The Winter Vegetable Garden
My poor blog has been sadly neglected of late. Life has been a bit busier than normal with family visiting from interstate and a 70th birthday to celebrate (not mine that is quite a few years off yet). Now that life is back to normal I thought it was time for a garden update.
There...
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