The Vegetable garden is in a transition phase at the moment. Because we have had quite a mild autumn a lot of my summer vegies are still producing, but yet I am trying to make room to get some winter vegies started. Summer vegetables still hanging on are tomatoes, capsicums, pumpkins, zucchini and chillis. I've […]
With Christmas and the New Year it usually takes me a couple of weeks to get back into things again, and this year has been no different. We had a busy few weeks with family visiting which was fantastic to catch up with everyone - but it means that the garden and farm gets a […]
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, we had the perfect summer for growing produce. Plenty of warm days interspersed with the odd rainy day, which has had both the vegie garden and the orchard doing very well. I hate wastage and so have tried to preserve as much of the fruit and vegies […]
After my vegie garden update, I had a number of questions regarding my recipe for Green Tomato Pickles, so I thought I would do a post about it today. I had actually never tried Green Tomato Pickles before, but we always have a jar in the fridge – that I buy – because Cam loves it on […]