The answer to this is ‘Yes it could’. There is plenty of room for improvement. We barely set things right after the last storm and here we are again with an even bigger one, that was even more destructive as there was wind in its midst. I am grateful to say we survived the storm unscathed. For the most part the winds were blocked by … Continue reading Could this summer get any better?
Once the weather returned to some kind of normal summer-esk conditions, I took the opportunity to process the harvest I was able to salvage. While not everything did well this summer – namely my tomatoes, some things have done exceptionally well and the beetroot can be counted as a success. The good thing about beetroot is I can pretty much grow it all year round … Continue reading COOKING: Is water essential?
Or is it? Depending on how you look at it today is the last day of summer, or it isn’t. Going by the meteorological system that divides the seasons by the calendar says today – the last day in February is the last day of summer. However, the astronomical system that divides the seasons based on the location of the earth in relation to the … Continue reading The Last Day…
This summer has been hot and dry. The last decent deluge was back in December when I despaired that my young plants would be ruined – stricken with fungal disease before they even got started. But alas no, they pulled through and went on into the growing season looking great and the garden looked healthy and promising well into the new year. Not to mention … Continue reading Just add water.
Once again summer has come to an end and as usual my monthly video garden tour has been left to the last minute. It has been a busy time just recently with a lot more doing stuff than documenting the doing of stuff. But as the next season takes over, hopefully things will slow down to a more manageable pace. Having said that we have … Continue reading See Ya Summer
In order to decide what to grow, (see yesterday’s post) I needed to assess the state of the garden and see what can go where, and what is still lingering. It is always good to do a state of the garden review and make some to do lists and help ease into the change of direction and focus a new season can bring. For weeks … Continue reading State of the Garden
I put socks on yesterday. I’m probably just being a bit namby pamby, but my feet got cold. Not winter cold by any stretch of the imagination. But that shock cold when the temperatures you have been used to up until recently have you eying up anything that can remotely be used as a fan to wave air around you to enjoy the cooling effect, … Continue reading Socks and Seeds
We are still in summer, repeat after me ‘we are still in summer’. It is becoming a little bit hard to believe right now. After the rain eventually came there has been a perceivable shift in the way things feel. That dry crispness that you feel underfoot when you walk across the lawn is gone. Most mornings there is now a bit of a dew … Continue reading Capturing Summer
It has been a long hot summer. The kind of endless summer you remember as a kid, when the sun shines for days on end and it seems like it will last forever. You go to bed at night with the windows open, and then wish you had some kind of screen to stop the enormous moths coming in and divebombing your head. But for … Continue reading Well, that’s a tad disappointing.
I’m leaping for joy. Ordinarily this would be the last day of summer! Normally, on this day I would begin to bemoan the demise of the fair weathered season and get ready for all things all things autumn. However, this year thanks to the calendar and its leap year, we get one more day of summer! Hooray! I have to say, I’m quite happy with this … Continue reading Summer extended by one day!
