Showing posts with label veggie garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label veggie garden. Show all posts

Friday, February 19, 2016

Corn

First harvest of corn. Unfortunately, Super Cutie had to help...

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Zucchini

 We are having a bumper harvest.
 Lucky it turns out that they make great chips.




Sunday, February 7, 2016

Tonight's harvest

It's an amazing time of year!

Monday, August 31, 2015

Fractal Broccoli

 Also known as Romanesco. You've got to admire such geometric form. And it's tasty too

Friday, August 28, 2015

Almond Blossom



Friday, July 31, 2015

Winter in the Veggie Garden

 After last Winter's complete failure
 and our failure to plant anything in Spring
 thanks to a certain small human
 I'm pretty impressed with the garden this Winter
 There's peas and beans
 And Brussels sprouts and broccoli
 Even some of the things that didn't come up last year have come up this year!

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Lemon or Grapefruit?

 I think one of our lemon trees is a bit confused...

Sunday, July 26, 2015

It's definitely Winter



Monday, July 6, 2015

Fruit from the Tree

She loves a good orange, so it's a good thing our tree has provided some

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

This year's orange crop


I'm so proud of our little tree

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Apple Pie

 Made from Marnie's recipe (except the gluten free pastry for the mini ones) from our home grown apples

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Rogue Mint

  I have mint in a pot, which was supposed to keep it contained.
 Yeah. Right.

Friday, October 17, 2014

Spring has sprung!

Spring arrived while we were in hospital having Abby.
 I came home to find our apple and pear trees suddenly had leaves
  (and now the apples have blossoms)

 And we don't know what this is. It should have been either broccoli or Brussels sprouts, but appears to be growing beans...

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Hello! An Update

I've been missing for much longer than I'd realised! Unfortunately, the power cord for the computer died and I've been using my phone for internet access. While writing blog posts on the phone is possible, it's much harder, so I haven't been doing it.
I'm now 38 weeks pregnant, so Lightbulb is due very soon.
The kitchen is coming along nicely, at last, but there's no way it will be finished before the baby arrives. Stress!
The Winter veggies have finally decided to take off, now that it's Spring, and we're suddenly getting more eggs than we know what to do with.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

In the garden

The winter veg are in and beginning to sprout. Two kinds each of brussel sprouts and broccoli,  silverbeet, snow peas and another round of carrots. We're thinking about planting onions too. The blood oranges are ripening,  though they're very small. We're waiting on the last often pumpkins and debating pulling out the last of the tomatoes. The zucchinis are still going.
What's happening in your garden at the moment?

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Samhain

 I finally found something to do with the useless, flavourless pumpkins - confuse the neighbours! Which is to say, carve a jack-o-lantern for Samhain! I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Making passata

 Tomatoes fresh from the garden.
 Cut, oiled, seasoned with salt and pepper, with basil, oregano and rosemary.
 Roasted.
 Pureed and ready to go.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

In the Veggie Beds

 Neither Andrew nor I are gardeners, but we do like having home grown food. So we decided for our own garden, we would only plant things which are edible.  This is what's happening in the veggie beds at the moment (okay, last week!)
 First batch of corn has gotten tall, and is starting to grow actual corn!
 Broad beans are all over the place in terms of height. A couple are starting to flower. The carrots are looking good above ground, but I have no idea what's happening below.
 These beans are stretching up high. You can just see a cucumber plant on the left, and a leaf from the big rhubarb.
 Onions have all been harvested now. More cucumber.
 Lovage and pumpkins growing well.
 I don't actually know what this is. It came as a seedling from a friend labelled zucchini! I may not be good with plants, but that is not a zucchini!

The second batch of corn is also growing well, as are the tomatoes. If you look closely, you can see some teeny tiny tomatoes growing already, and there's more on a plant at the back.
 Batch three of corn is still small, as are more tomatoes, pumpkins and cucumbers. There's some basil seeds in there too, but no sign of those growing yet.
Potatoes! And yet more pumpkin. One of the lemon trees in the front left.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

A bountiful harvest

 Carrots, zucchini and garlic from the garden, and Mum even made the stock!
And it all made delicious risotto