Hi Snags, yep it’s a busy time of year for sure.  We are picking berries every day now and freezing madly so as to keep us in fruit all year.  I think I am in love with zip-lock bags.Have plenty of greens in the garden but just cut the last pumpkin from last season.  Need to grow more this year. :o3

Hi there Jeanie, nice to see you.  Good to see the roll-call increasing slowly and surely. 3:-O

They look great ferhiljoe,  will be a hit I’m sure. :o3

That’s a nice little bundle of goodies Snags, very tastefully arranged.     I do so enjoy pics.I have zip lock bags of dried broad beans in the cupboard, makes a change from the frozen ones I prepared last year.Should have a bumper crop of berries this year, just a handful of boysenberries every day or two so far but the vines are loaded.  No…[Read more]

Hi Kristy,   :-h It’s nice to meet you. :(|)

Can’t help Snags but will be watching responses with interest. :(|)

Sure too.    Every cloud has a silver lining and stuff like that. :bz

I am green, red, yellow and brown with envy Snags.   Lucky old you.   We do our best and some years are better than others but it is always a fight.We had a perennial capsicum which I grew in the glass house and that lasted about 2 years I think, but it was a ‘constant work’ plant and I am a lazy gardener.   It fruited madly and constantly but…[Read more]

Well heaps of clearing of weeds and old plants etc has been taking place in the orchard garden, and just in time too as I want to try some zucchini plants and pumpkin, beans and cucumbers, oh and capsicum as well.  Last year I grew the zucchini in a partially shaded area under the plumcot tree and they were very successful.   With heavy mulch they…[Read more]

The water kefir grains have done it again, yah, there are little bubbles around the top of the jar and it smells great, fresh and fruity.    Now to second ferment.   Do so hope it fizzes. :o3

That’s a shame Snags.   It seems to be a pattern where I live for the weather to turn windy or heavy rain or hail stones at blossom time, bud burst or tiny fruit stage.   Luckily it is rarely severe enough to cause devastation but it nearly always severely depletes the crop.You have my sympathy. :ar!

Have no idea myself Sue, but will be watching for answers from ‘those who know’. :o3

I think you are right mudhen about the stuff in my water kefir being vinegar mother, but this stuff isn’t loose and floaty, it is round to the size of the jar diameter and solid on the top and softer underneath.  It can be picked up in my fingers and lifted and moved etc.I am about to try a fresh jar of water with one ‘mother’ and I will try a…[Read more]

Hi  ferhiljoe,  the quilt looks great, it is so bright, cheerful and pretty.   I haven’t seen that style before, thanks for sharing it with us.  3:-O

Can’t remember where you live Snags but that sounds great to me.  Must try it this year.  We kept a black krim tomato alive and fruiting all through the winter about two years ago I  guess it was, but that was in the glass house.We have a very small blood orange tree which had fruit the year it was bought and then again the following year, but…[Read more]

I keep finding plants of ‘cutandcomeagain’ oak leaf lettuce  in various corners of the garden, including in the middle of gravel paths.  It’s a very tenacious and very welcome member of our veg garden, tastes great and even in the middle of a hot summer there will be some to be found somewhere.Quite a lot of work has been done on the back areas of…[Read more]

Good question Dianne.   I assume, with the 1 hour space allowed for editing, that we can’t alter anything after that hour.   In my not so humble opinion, that is not good enough and I ask that Dan make editing available at any time please. :(|)

I haven’t seen that done before ferhiljoe, like ballamara says, ‘what a great idea’.  It looks terrific. :(|)

There is still spam on the ‘do you wanna talk gardening’ thread.  I would be really pleased if some one, probably LadyB who seems to be the only helper on site lately, could remove it. :(|)

Well done and congratulations Dianne.   It took a while but it sounds like you have found exactly what you have been looking for.Like rtb2 I am busting to see pics. :(|)