I can tell that the pears in my garden must be getting pretty close to being ripe because I’m finding a whole lot of them that look like this Today I even managed to spot one of the culprits I didn’t have the heart to shoo it away because I’m pretty sure it’s sick. It … Continue reading
Tag Archives: fruit
February in the Garden
Since we’re in February now, and I am apparently completely unable to keep up with my succession planting plans, I thought I’d go through what I’m meant to be doing in the garden in February. As was the case in January I’m utilising the Yates Month by Month garden guide from the library, and I’m … Continue reading
Yellowing Passionfruit Leaves
My greatest failing as a gardener is a “she’ll be right” attitude. It’s not a lack of concern, more an assumption that the plants will take care of themselves. After all, they got this far, didn’t they? The result of this tends to be plants which start of thriving (in shops where people who actually … Continue reading
Gardening for the Future
This Tuesday I had every intention of joining Lon at 500m2’s succession planning Tuesday. Only it turns out that today is Tuesday and I haven’t done any succession planning (both Nick and the kids are on holidays, it’s totally messing with my idea of which days are which). So instead I’m going to show you … Continue reading
DIY Burnt Apricot Jam Update
I spent the whole time we were travelling to and from Canberra worrying about a few things. One of those things was what I had done to my precious, precious apricot jam. Was it salvagable? Had I made more apricot paste? (I still have a jar of apricot paste from when I overprocessed it last … Continue reading
See How My Garden Grows: January 2014
For this post I’m linking up with the Garden Share Collective. The Garden Share Collective is a group of bloggers who share their gardening journey, and whose blogs I’ve had great fun reading! I shall be posting some links to the blogs I’ve discovered so far tomorrow for you all to enjoy. In the meantime, here’s … Continue reading
{Storing the Harvest} DIY Apriot Jam
Technically this post should probably be called DIY Burnt Apricot Jam, because I’m pretty sure that’s what I did. But since I want to focus on the positives, we’ll pretend like it didn’t happen. About two days ago Nick announced that we should head to Canberra this week. We were going to head up at some … Continue reading
{Storing the Harvest} DIY Dried Apricots
Since I discovered that I had a bunch of apricots that desperately needed to be used I decided to use the more bruised ones to make diced dried apricots. (I also plan to bake some oat and apricot biscuits with these during the week – stay tuned!). I started off with this pile of apricots … Continue reading
{Storing the Harvest} Apricots
I’ve been engaged in an on-going battle with the birds for the past week in an attempt to ensure that I actually get to use some of the apricots on my tree. To do this, I have been going out daily and picking as many apricots as I can reach (and look close to ripe) … Continue reading
