Hello!
How is your weekend faring?
I spent the majority of the day in the kitchen with Megumi getting on to a few things. Not that I got any kitchen photos…
We actually started off by making up a huge pot of veggies mixed in – I used tinned tomatoes as we are not quite overwhelmed with them yet. We grated zucchini & carrots, put in chopped onion and garlic, plenty of herbs and some corn kernels.
Part of this we put on pasta for dinner, but several trays of it are now in the dehydrator doing its thing. That Overland Hike is coming up fairly smartly and I need to have our dinners made!
My basil has grown back enough to make another batch of pesto. So we did that. I put it straight in the freezer – one pack we will use when Megumi’s husband Yusuke arrives next week.
We also started making another batch of blueberry ice cream. Will finish that tomorrow.
And – some plums got cooked as they were looking a little desperate!!
I must be doing something right with the strawbales. Things are sprouting!!
This is only day three of the blood and bone stage. I want to ask Barry who sold me the straw what was growing in the paddock.
Check out the apples!! Everywhere!
The green-yellow ones are quite tasty now. A little bit tart but really good. It will take the red ones another month or two before they are ready
Some of those beetroot are huge!
And I am still doing the rounds waiting for the million tomatoes to explode into red!
Some of the ‘from lateral’ tomato plants are starting to show colour!
Mad amounts! Fully intend having my stall back out when I start getting overwhelmed with them!
Are my watermelons getting bigger?? I can’t tell!
The pumpkins are!
I fed the corn today with some kelp juice. I have high hopes of this plot.
Was worth netting the little plum tree – they are nice and juicy… not overly sweet but not tart at all.
This is one of my bucket plants. Have no idea what it is – its never flowered before and it smells so pretty!
I have a few things in a bucket – they have lived there for a couple of years with no more help than adding water. They are in the bucket because I can’t decide where to plant them!!
On my list for this year – find my bucket plants a forever home. (I am trying to resist saying something about a bucket list…)
Anyway, time for bed!
Hope your weekend is fabulous!
Cheers!
Hi there! So enjoying your garden and sunshine since in the US (Pennsylvania to be exact) it’s shin deep in snow and ice in the middle to late winter! Wanted to ask you about animals where you live. Do you have fruit bats/ flying foxes that get after your trees as well as birds? Wondered about the netting.
Thanks!
Hi Samantha!! Hope you are keeping warm despite all the snow and ice!! I usually enjoy the winter months but I am totally lapping up summer right now! Glad you are enjoying the sunny photos!! I love having friends who garden at opposite ends of the world. I can get all inspired over winter watching their progress!
Re netting – we don’t get the fruit bats down here – up north they do though! My netting is mostly for birds but I am sure it helps thwart the possums (the cute marsupial kind) and the bunnies (and chooks!). They do chew into food as well. I am sure they are loving some of those apples 😀 Lucky we have enough to share. Just hoping the parrots don’t discover them – I really don’t want to have to try to net the apple trees!!
I have in the past seen pademelons in the yard (small fat kangaroo) and it was SO FAT!! Gorging on the fallen apples and as happy as a pig in mud lol. Only saw a baby devil once. Luckily we’ve never seen a quoll here. They are chicken killers – even though I think they are a fabulous little animal, I don’t fancy them finding our chooks. We are just a little close to town I think and you find them a bit further out in the bush. The only other animal I can think of is the snakes – seen two this season – one big, one small. I don’t mind them but happier if they live in the paddocks and not our yard!
Have a lovely day and stay toasty warm!!
Hey, thanks for the info! I’m a big animal lover but had to look up a quoll. Kind of looks weasel- like but with the Aussie dots/stripes. Very cute, but doesn’t look too chook friendly! As for snakes, you got some doozies down there! Agreed they’re better off not being toooo close! Thanks for being willing to share with all your wild little friends! I think parrots in my yard would be fantastic, but maybe not eating all my fruit! Have been following megabattie on youtube rescuing fruit bats and just wondered what the fruit growers side looks like. Thanks for sharing!
No worries Samantha! I do enjoy the animals and birds in the yard. I am wondering if the parrots will discover the apples soon or not… They are cute but I want some left for us! They have an annoying habit of taking one bite out of each one! haha
Fruit bats are rather cool and cute… but I am sure not appreciated if they guts all your produce lol.
I saw two possums in the cherry plum trees when I went down to shut the chooks up tonight. I had a chat to them before they scurried higher into the branches 😀
Hmm.. that last flower photo from one of your unknown buckets looks like it could be a type of honeysuckle? It has very pretty colors!! I’m a tad envious! Mostly I’m going off of the shape and you saying it smells very nice 🙂
Actually honeysuckle is what came to mind from the smell… but its from a different shaped plant (I think) I’ll have to take a snap of the whole thing with the stem and big leaves. Whatever it is, its rather lovely and is making me feel a bit guilty that I have left it in a bucket all this time!! Perhaps later this month it will be time to sort that bucket out haha