Hello ever so slightly shorter gloomy winter days. Well we have passed the winter solstice – the shortest day. No longer will the day be so abruptly ended at 5:11pm! With each passing day we will begin our descent towards summer. Each sunset will bring us a minute closer to the warmer sunnier days of a perfect summer. Because this season is going to be … Continue reading Goodbye long gloomy winter days…
Not last night but the night before we had a huge storm the wreaked havoc throughout the country. There were 170km an hour winds and some areas got a month load of rain in a day. It was pretty wild and a lot of damage has been done. I missed it. I was so tired I slept through it all. Which was probably just as … Continue reading You could say we had a bit of rain…
I cleared another three beds yesterday. Or should I say I cleared 10% of the garden. That sounds way better described like this. I am such a hard worker doing 10%! But if the truth be known, it was actually kind of easy. The soil is soft and crumbly and not too wet, so the weed roots just slipped right out. The other thing is … Continue reading It’s my garden – I can change my mind if I want to.
But I’m going to try and do 30 beds in 30 days! And the challenge started yesterday. I am sitting here with sore aching muscles. Initially I thought it was the foreign lurgy I brought home from our trip as a souvenir. Then it occurred to me – this is what hard work feels like! I have been so crazy busy on other projects and … Continue reading Please don’t consider me promiscuous
Of late our diet has been a long way from what we are normally accustomed to. To start with we were kitchen-less and it seems to have been for a very long time. We started out in the balmy long evenings of late summer or was it early autumn? The details have been lost in the mists of time. But I do know it was … Continue reading Digging up dinner.
Bananas and breadfruit… I’ve been away. The last couple of weeks I have been cruising around the South Pacific, with exotic destinations such as Noumea, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and starting and ending in Sydney, Australia. It was such a whirl wind tour – nine wonderfully tropical locations in a 14 day cruise. It was really lovely, and I was sharing the gardening love as I … Continue reading Coconuts and Cassava
Not a bad haul considering there is only 20 days until winter! We have butternut squash, peppers and chillies, more beans than I know what to do with, three tiny zucchini, carrots, kale, broccoli, rhubarb and the last of the tomatoes. Come again soon – this autumn weather is just too balmy to be stuck inside, I must try to do more gardening. Sarah the … Continue reading I told you there was a lot of stuff in my garden….
Only it took many more than one pass with the mower to make the garden look remotely manageable again. It took four tankful’s of petrol, a cold cuppa tea, a large cold drink of water and an ice block and I honestly feel like I have walked a country mile – if not two or three! But I did it – I dragged the mower … Continue reading And order was restored in one fell swoop
But not as many as I’d like so I sowed some more. I made some me time today in the garden and it felt great. The sun was shining and the birds were singing. It even felt a little warm. It is really strange because on days when it rains, you think “how can it ever be sunny again?” On days like today it seems … Continue reading I found peas in the garden…
When your chilli plants are ripening more jalapenos than you can keep up with under normal circumstances and then throw the lack of a kitchen into the mix…. This will be rectified soon, hopefully I’ll be cooking up a storm by the end of next week. Well you need to get creative with your produce producing. I have already found a fabulous way to process … Continue reading SMOKING HOT!
