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Posted in cooking, Recipes, Vegetable Growing on Mar 8th, 2013
Hi all It’s been a while hasn’t it? Well today I have to share with you the deeeeeelishous spaghetti I made for tea last night. Every summer I hang out for enough tomatoes to make this. Some years I do well & get several ice cream containers full frozen to take me through winter. […]
Posted in Flower Garden, Orchard, Vegetable Growing on Feb 11th, 2012
Last weekend was the Brightwater Summer Show. We were asked to put in some entries to help make up numbers. My dahlias, & most of my garden, were looking quite sad after a windy storm followed by a week of dry. I picked a bucket full but was told most were not “show” flowers. […]
Posted in Flower Garden, Poultry, Vegetable Growing on Oct 12th, 2011
We have 2 orpington x wyandotte hens, Sylvia & Shirley, who decided it was a better life over the fence living with our little Pekin bantams in the house garden. I raised them from our own eggs last year & they talk to me every time I venture outside. We have fun & games finding their eggs, […]
Posted in Poultry, Vegetable Growing on Aug 24th, 2011
You may recall I posted recently about my dear little bantams ‘helping” me in the garden. Well, they can be quite useful for keeping bugs away & scratching out a few weeds but they were actually decimating the vegetables; eating all the silverbeet & even the carrot tops & parsley! So I got handy hubby […]
Posted in Goats, Poultry, Vegetable Growing on Jul 31st, 2011
This season I’ve decided I’m going to follow the moon calendar with my plantings & see how it works out. I started on July 20 by planting some root vegetables.. swedes and carrots. I have got handy hubby on the job of making me a plastic covered cloche to keep them warm… and.. to keep […]
Posted in Flower Garden, Orchard, Poultry, Vegetable Growing on Jul 27th, 2011
I thought you might find it interesting how we make compost here. Hubby is a gardener so he ‘brings home his work’. We have a tractor mounted chipper & every weekend he shreds the weeks work. Any that is guaranteed non-poisonous is used as animal bedding.. in shelters & chook houses. Later of course that […]
Posted in cooking, Orchard, Recipes, Vegetable Growing on Feb 5th, 2011
Well, far too hot to do any cooking today, or anything at all really, but it was cooler earlier in the week & I made the last of our homegrown SanRosa plums into some delish Spiced Plum Jam. Was wonderful on pikelets. I found the recipe online & I made it in the microwave.. easy! […]
Posted in Flower Garden, Kids, Orchard, Vegetable Growing on Feb 2nd, 2011
Well, we ended up with about 25 entries in the Summer Show this weekend. Roses, Dahlias, Cut flowers, Fruit & Vege plus the wee boys Sand Saucers, Vege creation & Floral arrangements. Of all that we got 13 firsts & only 3 items didn’t place. Not bad considering I had little idea what makes a […]
Posted in Flower Garden, Orchard, Vegetable Growing on Jan 21st, 2011
One of hubbys sweet lady customers runs the local Horticultural Show & has been asking us for 2 years to enter. Well, I’m biting the bullet & entering this month. She kindly showed me around her large show garden yesterday & gave me tips on how to prepare the dahlias. I’ve been round mine & […]
Posted in cooking, Recipes, Vegetable Growing on Sep 13th, 2010
When I was a teenager, I had a friend who regularly used the expression “I’m not waiting until the rhubarb season”. My dad never grew rhubarb so I didn’t understand just when this ‘rhubarb season’ was… well.. I can tell you.. it is now! Having given my rhubarb bed a very generous dressing of sheep […]
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