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Harvesting carrot seeds
The weekend weather has been perfect for indoor nesting and home comforts (read: lots of rain and a cyclone). Plenty of time to do all the finicky jobs I put off for days and weeks, including...
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February gardens
The lemons are still hanging on, and still definitely green. A couple more weeks, perhaps. Above, our 3 chickens in the turmeric bed. The turmeric has sprung back to life after the rains, and is...
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Saying goodbye… and hello again
Well, it’s time to say goodbye – to our much loved back garden in town. I’ve been away from this blog for a very long time, for good reasons too. We’ve had a few months of upheavals, starting with the...
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New home, new gardens
It’s a rather overcast and rainy weekend here in the tropical north. Unusual for this time of year – I’ve become accustomed to endless sunny winter days, so this weather ruffles my feathers a bit....
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Baby steps
Cherry tomatoes in August …and as they look now – rather tragic we reckon Our yellow cherry tomatoes have fizzled out I’m afraid – although they are still producing a good crop. I think it’s some...
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Ten books for ten dollars
Above is my recent score from the local library – a great assortment of perfectly good books, with fantastic ideas, hints, tips etc on everything from gardening, to cooking, even raising pigs....
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Epic kitchen failures: cocky apple jam
To the left you see a rather unassuming tree, looking rather straggly – this is the common native cocky apple, Planchonia careya. It bears small green fruits, the cocky apples, which are not to be...
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From the garden: successes and failures
Let’s start with what went well so far: below is our modest crop of sweet potatoes, all grown in a bathtub – technically, actually only about 1/4 to 1/3 of a standard bathtub was required, as the...
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Nature’s bounty
It’s a funny one, isn’t it. When we lived in town, we had a pawpaw (papaya) tree, and hardly got any fruit off it due to root attack from a grub – the whole tree just started dying back, just as it had...
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Soap making adventures
After a long absence, I finally have some time to catch up on this blog. To be fair, most of the past year has been taken up by the arrival of our first-born, and I intent to write about that journey...
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