… so much to relish! (and no, the puns just don’t stop) Hot on the heels of great success with ‘canning*’ dill pickles and beetroot and our two types of strawberry jam, Chris took to one of the three stands of sweet corn in the soil garden and returned a bounty of 8 lovely ears (OK … … Continue reading
and plenty more 😀 We have had a very productive time in the garden recently, but with all of the business of Christmas and end-of-year things, I did not get to post. Both the aquaponics and soil garden have been very prolific, so much so, that many of the presents we labelled and wrapped were from … Continue reading
… and soapy tales to tell! Wow! It’s been almost two months since my last post. How can that be? I did start a rather convoluted post about chickens which I hope to revisit, but in the meantime, long story short, we had one of our originals, Georgie, die. And then Blanche presented as being … Continue reading
Alliums by the bunch! …or should that be alliae? Behold the above bounty of red onions that came out of the aquaponics system. They started out as an experiment, but we are both quite amazed that the onions have done so well. Mind you, the spring onions and the chives have always performed well, so why … Continue reading
and a new recipe to share… I know I have waxed lyrical before about the sheer bliss of eating from the garden, but here I go again… My life seems to be a bountiful list of strategies—how to get fitter, how to lose some ‘excess-to-requirements’ kilos, how to be better organised for study etc etc … Continue reading
AKA protect your crops! Above: behold: our chicken pecked tomato… I’ve been busy—finishing the academic year and not so happy with my last assignment. My head buzzes most of the time and I seem to have not managed to develop a strategy for focus and note taking. This has lead to an endless folder in my … Continue reading
…and other stories of produce! Just a quick update. The aquaponics system is going well and today we harvested seven huge red onions (despite the fact that they had not ‘died off’—but they needed to come out)…and in their place I managed to propagate 22 onions which are now nestled into the system. I also … Continue reading
AKA a small random collection of unrelated things We are now into October so Spring is certainly here. It’s lovely to see fresh growth on the Jacaranda which we planted two years ago in memory of my brother. In the last two years I think it has doubled in height but in that time we have not seen any … Continue reading
…and a bunch more to come I have been a bit neglectful of the house and the garden. I am afraid that the small trip away, and then working on the last assignment for my course, somehow ate my brain, but I got back into the swing of it this weekend as my slightly aching muscles can … Continue reading
We have added to our tribe On Friday I checked out the website of our wonderful fish supplier and discovered that they had no Jade Perch in stock. Arggghhh. Since the ‘Terrible loss of September 2014’ we now have a spare tank and the sensible thing is to stock it, so I called Andrew and … Continue reading
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