Sometimes nature forces your hand and encourages you to get things done. The garlic I grow is a variety called Early Pearl. A generous friend sent me some to try many years ago and I had the best success with them. So, I saved them for the following year and have done so ever since. The great thing about this garlic is it gets going … Continue reading Slowly reclaiming control.
There is something to be said for being in the garden every day and just doing little and often. Over the heat of the summer the garden didn’t really need a lot and aside from constant watering and regular harvesting, it wasn’t much of a commitment at all, really – especially as the heat often drove me out of the garden before I had fully … Continue reading Fraught with Frustration
I’m not sure what is up with time lately. One moment it feels like it is dragging and taking forever to pass and the next I find myself dazed and exhausted days later and shocked to find it is Friday! I think it has something to do with the school holidays as the routine is gone and all sense of normal along with it. Last … Continue reading Another week that disappeared in blur in activity
Next week is the school holidays. Not that the teen lads need much attention during the holidays, but the dynamic changes in the household and so any routine I find myself in during normal weekdays just flies out the window. Recently I have had a good thing going on where I have my little rhythm to what I have to do and I’m making great … Continue reading What a whirlwind of a week
This is a strange time of year. Daylight savings has ended but it is still warm-ish and we are wandering about our days feeling it should be later than it is, which strangely gives us more time in our days. It won’t last and soon enough we will get used to the new ebb and flow of time and know exactly where we are and … Continue reading March and A Week Garden Tour
On a Tuesday… again. Same same but different. Stay home, stay safe. Shop local, shop sensible. This is a still a weird old time. The Monday Message is on a Tuesday because we had a public holiday on Monday and I try… in normal times to not work on weekends and holidays so I get to enjoy my family. So even though they Mondayised an … Continue reading Monday Message:
As the days grow cooler, the love of a good chilli can add some heat! I have plenty to choose from in my garden – cayenne, jalapeno, padron (gone too far to be a playful game of spicy roulette – they are all very hot now), habanero, birds eye and a few others. And they are all ready and waiting for me to do something … Continue reading Monday Message
This lockdown has been a bit of a strange creature for me as far as productivity and getting stuff done goes. I have to confess a lot of time has been spent in a bewildered state. While my life hasn’t changed all that much, I work from home, Hubby the Un-Gardener works from home and it felt like the school term hadn’t been going that … Continue reading Lockdown Funk
… On a Tuesday. The weather outside might be terrible, but all storms pass eventually. Today is really stormy – it was yesterday too. You really feel it out here exposed on the coast. The garden seems to be holding up ok, but there are no tender seedlings trying to establish themselves so there isn’t much to worry about. But storms here always sound so … Continue reading Monday Message:
I had the pleasure of chatting to the lovely Sam and Julia on Newstalk ZB this morning and one of the things we talked about was things that can be growing things from the kitchen when you don’t have ‘proper’ gardening supplies. For example: Take an avocado stone and suspend it over a jar of water with toothpicks to get it to sprout Try growing … Continue reading What to grow when you don’t have ‘proper’ supplies
