Recently I went to the shops and found a cool little book called “Cooking from the Market: Fruit”. It basically contains a couple of recipes on ways to use fruit. As someone who frequently ends up with too many pieces of fruit left over (sometimes from garden production and sometimes from purchases for school lunch) … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Book Wish List
As Christmas nears my family (and friends) start asking me what I want for Christmas. Usually I have a list floating around somewhere that I’ve been adding to all year, but that goes into hiding around birthdays and Christmas (because what’s life without a little mystery?). To prevent that from happening this year, I thought … Continue reading
Growing Onions
Way back when I had back surgery I decided that I would be all smart and get a head start on my vegie patch. Because I knew I was going to be out of action for a while as far as weeding and planting was concerned, I decided to start some vegies in pots. One … Continue reading
{DIY} Christmas Decorations – Part One Giftboxes
I’m somewhat of a Christmas fanatic. I put up the Christmas tree as early as my husband will allow me and take it down as late as I can get away with (though usually before Easter). When we were in Europe on our honeymoon I dragged Nick into almost every Christmas shop I could find … Continue reading
Frustrated!
I have long been an avid reader of blogs of all things gardening, homesteading, self-sufficiency and preserving. I’ve loved reading blogs out of America like The Broken Plow and Food In Jars and one that I read many, many years ago that I can’t recall the title of. But it was beautiful. Every time I … Continue reading
Germinating Seeds
This weekend just gone I had grand plans of sieving out my vegie patch (in addition to the evil that is runner grass, it is also infested with onion grass!). However fate had other plans in store. On Saturday morning I was already a bit hesitant to undertake such a large piece of work as … Continue reading
See How My Garden Grows
About a month ago I posted that, for me, the colour of Spring is green. While I’m a firm believer in the seasons changing on the equinoxes and solstices, officially Summer is 8 days away, and my garden can certainly tell. Those loganberries that I posted looking like this: Now look like this. My … Continue reading
Backyard Makeover Plan
I mentioned the other day that I had had enough of my backyard and was going to re-design it. Well, here is my really dodgy preliminary plan! This is what the side-of-the-house-backyard currently looks like: It was quite hard to take a photograph of as it’s quite long and narrow-ish. Not to mention a series … Continue reading
Seeds, seeds and more seeds!
I know I said yesterday that I was going to show you my plans for a backyard makeover, but then a whole bunch of seeds that I had ordered arrived so I thought I’d quickly discuss these instead! I bought the first lot of seeds from a shop called Seeds 4 You on eBay (though apparently they … Continue reading
Backyard Makeover
When my husband and I moved into our house more than three and a half years ago, I was super-excited by the possibilities of our backyard. Along the side of our house, and in a sunny position, was an already established vegetable patch and fruit trees. Along the back and to the right was an … Continue reading
