Our entree this evening was one fresh pea each. My first stage crop of Massey Gem peas – a quick producing dwarf variety – has produced it’s first two pods. One pea per pod. Very cute but hardly the stuff of glut.
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Give Peas A Chance
Happy Little Sunshiney Food
I am addicted to button squash. I can’t help myself, they are gorgeous and delicious, how am I supposed to walk past them? They sit there at the greengrocer, all glistening and golden, and I can hear them call my name. And they taste like juicy sunshine.
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Scentsational
I first found out about the scented loveliness here as a by-product of my insatiable search for garden knowledge. Scented geraniums, or to be truly technical – pelargoniums – are the less flashy cousin of the coloured geranium given to a million mum’s on Mother’s Day (not my Mum though – she’s getting hand made scented soap and chocolate covered coffee beans!).
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Alien Strawberry
I was hanging out in the kitchen with Aussie Trucker’s son, Ghillie Kid, my garden buddy/lifter of heavy things/super army soldier, admiring my Venus Fly Trap and pondering the joy of all things carnivorous, when he noticed alien fruit.
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Lessons From My Landlord
My landlord – Nick The Olive Man – is awesome. He’s an ancient Italian who came to Australia in 1953, worked his wee butt off ever since and now owns half the village in which we live. Our cottage and my garden are a tiny portion of the property on which he lives, has a billion olive trees and runs 150 free range chooks, owned, nurtured and chatted to by Marge the Chook Lady.
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Proud Mama
Our friend from Thailand, Tat, spent the weekend just gone on the farm with us, and he had with him his new toy. Which I want. It’s now a toss up as to whether I covet Tat’s toy more or Alys’s.
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It Lives – A Success Story
I did a little happy dance in my garden this morning. I find it so joyful when something I experiment with works. It makes me feel like I may actually be learning something, and can possibly refer to myself as a gardener without people laughing at me!
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Baby Behemoth
I’ve been watching my Nepenthes baby pitcher with great interest over the last few weeks and the growth rate has been phenomenal. It seems to grow just a little bit more each day and I’ve been wondering how large it was going to get before it finally popped open it’s lid.
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