I had a great harvest today. I always love the winter bounty, partly, I think, because it’s a bit unexpected. You always expect to be picking plenty during summer and autumn, but there is something special about picking in winter! Jazz is holding a massive cauliflower- and there are many more like it still to […]
We have been very lucky this autumn so far, to have not had any frosts! As a result quite a few of our summer veggies are still producing quite well. The tomatoes have finished up, as it has been quite cold, but the chillies and capsicums are still going well. I also grew jalapeño chillies […]
When we planned our orchards, we planned on having one side of our farm driveway as an area for stone fruit, and also apples, pears, and figs. The other side was to be for grape vines and citrus. Well the first side has been in for about 5 years now, and is growing nicely. On […]
We’ve been having some very wintery weather here these last few days. It’s been quite nice actually, because the first two weeks of winter were very mild. Today we have had almost non-stop drizzly rain and cold, cold winds. With lambing well and truly underway, the vegie garden has not got a lot of attention […]
I picked the first of our broccoli last night. They are massive heads, and I think I picked them just in time as they will start spreading if I’d left them much longer. Obviously this is much more than we are likely to eat in the next week or so, so I cut them up […]
Its mushroom time!! Besides our middle son – Danny, the rest of us LOVE mushrooms. And we particularly love this time of the year when they are growing wild in the paddocks and we can pick them. This was yesterday’s collection, just from the paddock around the house where Pickles our dairy cow spends some […]
We had some wonderful WONDERFUL rain last week. It wasn’t a lot, only 17 mm, nearly 3/4 inch for those not up with metric. But regardless, it is AMAZING how quickly the paddocks are greening up. It has also given the vegie garden a real boost. I haven’t been out there a lot lately, just […]
Finally harvested the last of the corn yesterday. Feels good to have it all frozen ready to see us out for winter. Everyone in the family loves corn so its great to have a good supply throughout the year. Most of it we picked a couple of weekends ago, and my wonderful parents peeled […]
The vegie garden has been very slow this year. Admittedly we had very mild temperatures during spring and early summer, but I was sure that the hot weather we have had since Christmas would have made up for it. Normally I would have had buckets and buckets of Roma tomatoes by now, and plenty of […]
We have a fantastic array of fruit trees in our orchard. Apples, pears, cherries, plums, nectarines, peaches, apricots, figs, to name a few. The trees are about five years old, and they are starting to get a reasonable amount of fruit on them now. We decided it was time to protect them from the birds. […]