This little lima bean plant was the first thing to come up in my vegetable patch! I was beginning to despair, with two weeks of no rain and no sign of growth, I was wondering if hauling water everyday was really worth it. But three days ago I spotted this little plant peaking […]
Every vegetable gardener knows that if you leave a small zucchini on the plant for a couple of days it will be a marrow. If you are mounting a harvest festival display, big zucchini look very impressive, but for eating, they are hopeless.
There are recipes for stuffed marrow but in my opinion life is […]
There is still a whisp of husk holding back our coffee seedling, but it is beginning, at long last, to look as though it may become a fully fledged plant. I know this is a blurry photo (never was my strength) but you can see how the shell of the coffee bean is still there, […]
We eat a lot of apples in our household. They are the only fruit sturdy enough to survive the rigors of the school lunch box in palatable condition. We cut them up to eat with yoghurt in the morning, and they are cut up again to go with cheese and crackers for an after school […]
At long last I have gotten round to taking some pictures of my pride and joy - the window-box style flower pots I planted up with pansies and other bits and pieces about a month ago. They sit on a narrow wall alongside our pocket handkerchief of a sundeck, and they cheer me up every […]
Why is it that pumpkin seeds survive so well in compost, even when the heap has heated up well enough to kill everything else? I use compost all over the place - in pots and in the main garden. Everywhere I get volunteer pumpkins. I pull most of them out, but we planted one in […]
I went hunting last night to seek guidance on the care and nurturing of our little coffee seedling, and found this. The picture looks so cute - not at all like our little capped dude. I suspect I need to switch on the heat pad under our seedling tray to convince our coffee bean that […]
We have dug our first potatoes, and boy are they good! You only realise how stale most vegetables are when you eat them really fresh, and get to appreciate the difference. We steamed these, cut some chives over them and added a dab of butter. Bliss. The children ate them like they were lollies which […]
I haven’t worn pantyhose since I was in my 20s. There was a feeling of great liberation when I turned 30 and decided that I no longer needed to make myself uncomfortable for the sake of appearances. I have never regretted my decision, except…
when the tomatoes are sprawling everywhere because I have nothing stretchy with […]
Couldn’t help but notice this wonderful sounding job as a “seed manager”. I’m trying to finish a book at the moment, and admittedly even tidying my sock drawer seems more attractive - nevertheless I am really tempted. Hmmm
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