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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. […]

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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.   […]

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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, […]

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New Garden Cloche

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 […]

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Planting By The Moon

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 […]

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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 […]

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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!  […]

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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 […]

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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 & […]

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Rhubarb Season

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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