The Great Pumpkin Harvest

Well, maybe great is a bit of an exaggeration, but compared to last years harvest of one minuscule butternut, this years harvest was indeed great. 10.4kg of Butternut and 4.8kg of an unknown volunteer. As you can see in the photo one of the pumpkins has split, I...

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Snowy - At Last

After many seeds sown and a few false starts I finally managed to get a "Snowy" eggplant to grow this year. It started to flower, but never set any fruit or so I thought. Look at what I discovered this morning when I went down to the vegetable garden. To say I got excited...

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Garden Update - March 2017

Well, here we are, March is over and the first month of autumn has gone, but March was a very warm month and it has only been over the last week that the weather has finally started to cool down.  As I expected pickings from the garden have been small, both in size...

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