It’s great to have minions… well… mine aren’t yellow, but they are willing workers, so we managed to get through a couple of garden beds for Ruby today.
Ruby had some visitors, so I didn’t go in to get stories – but we had a lot of fun in the beautiful sunshine.
The second potato patch has sprung a lot of potato plants at the end of the season, as well as a blanket of weeds
We left the potatoes. Even though Ruby wont get a lot off them, there will be something, and food is food!! 🙂
The next task –
The pumpkin/zucchini patch, while totally finished with only weeds growing, yielded a surprising amount of potatoes!! Too funny!
I weeded this quite a few weeks ago and the weeds have stayed away (mostly) due to the good layer of seaweed I dumped on top of it.
I will take Mana down to the beach next week and we will stock up on seaweed and cover each garden as it gets dug to slow down the weeds.
Ruby keeps finding nice sturdy little tomato plants popping up here and there! So it made me laugh to see that she had moved what she could into the hothouse to see if they would last the winter!
I got these ones to put in my hothouse
Ruby’s broccolini are looking great!
Even better I saw the start of the vegetable already!
This zucchini got its second wind!
Emma and Mana got up the ladders and tidied up the man ferns
All the dead fronds were brought back to our place. They make excellent kindling.
At Half Time in the gardening, Ruby came out with a little plate of banana passionfruit (with ice cream) for us to try!
I’ll have to take a photo of the fruit for you to see tomorrow if you are not familiar with it
I will be testing a beetroot recipe soon this week, so stay tuned. Its one of those vague old fashioned things that give you a guide and basically wish you good luck with it!
I thought I better test it out before writing it down here!
In other news, there soon will be a serious meeting & afternoon tea with a couple of cousins, friends & Margie with Ruby to pow-wow about her upcoming 100th birthday! (I’ll eventually let Ruby know about this haha)
Its all very well to say you don’t want a fuss, but when you have been around this long and are very well known in the community, along with a massive extended family, I am afraid fuss is what you are going to get. 🙂
I wouldn’t be surprised if around 200 people turned up on the day! Its to be a gathering at Ruby’s church hall, but not much else has been sorted out, and even though we are talking September, it will go fast. I think poor Margie has been having kittens about it! And really – a gathering of that size needs to be organised, so in a week or so we shall turn up with cake, put the kettle on and really get some proper plans in place!
Cheers everyone!
