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Garden Goodness
I wandered out to the garden with Tux this morning to plant a few onion seedlings (rossa lunga di Firenze, from the Italian Gardener if your interested) into the spot I had prepared for them last week....
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Happenings around the garden
Even though it's cold and miserable here, the garden is looking good. Here's a few shots of what's going on around the place.
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Tomatoes
With summer in full swing my Tomatoes have started to produce some delicious specimans. Tigerella's Jaune Flammee'sJapanese Black TriflesAll super fresh and yummy. Talk about low food miles, straight...
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Harvest Monday - 21 January 2013
Summer so far has been pretty good to my garden, we did have a 39 degree day(nothing compared to South Australia, they had 48!!!) that burnt a lot of my Tomatoes and Capsicums as well as toasting my...
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Harvest Monday, 28 January 2013
My garden is still providing us with lots of fresh summer food and I have been busy making pickles, relishes and sauces (as well as the odd jam). Heres whats good in the garden a the moment.Big Black...
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Harvest Monday - 11 February 2013
I have been too busy to weigh things these last few weeks, but here's a few photos of what my late summer garden is producing. Cherry Tomatoes Galore, Australian Butter beans and plenty of Cucumbers to...
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Starting seeds for Autumn and Winter
I'm a bit of a seed collector and if I were to hazard a guess I would say there would be close to 200 seed packets in my collection. You might say I have a problem - well maybe I do. I just love seeds!...
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Garden Gobble
A lovely dinner of homemade cavatelli with local made salami, zucchini, garlic and tomatoes from my garden.
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Making yogurt
I make my own yogurt every week. There are lost of reasons why- it cuts the cost to less than $2 for 2 litres, one less thing I have to get from the supermarket and it tastes amazing. Because its so...
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Harvest Monday- 18 February 2013
My Summer garden is winding down - fungal and mildew problems abound, not to worry I've had my fair share and anyway Autumn's coming and is almost here. Spinach, Broccoli and cauliflower will thrive...
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Garden Gobbles - 21 February 2013
We had a lovely dinner of home made flour tortillas with some mexican bean sauce (home made) scattered with olives, dolloped with sour cream and avocado. Finished with pico de gallo made from garden...
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Harvest Monday - 25 February 2013
Two of my raised gardens are bare at the moment, my main bed of tomatoes is gone and the pumpkins went as they were badly suffering powdery mildew and I couldn't stand the sight of them any longer. I...
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Harvest Monday - 4 March 2013
I can't believe its March! Where has the year gone so far? I have been so busy at work this past week that I missed out on Garden Gobbles on Thursday and Liz from Suburban Tomatoes Saturday spotlight,...
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Garden Gobbles - Tortilla Espanola
Now that my Chickens are laying I thought this would be a great choice as I can almost make this completely from the backyard supermarket!A big bunch of parsley and chives. I also used some spinach but...
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Saturday Spotlight - Big Rainbow Tomato
Today I'm taking part in Liz from Suburban Tomato's Blog  Saturday Spotlight- As maybe you can see this was not posted on Saturday, better late than never I suppose. Without further ado I would like to...
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Harvest Monday - 11 March 2013
Summer doesn't seem to want to leave but I would happily say goodbye. This past week the temperature has been over 29 degrees every day. I'm personally over it, it was great while it lasted but bring...
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Happenings around the garden
My chickens are laying an egg a day, I can't wait until the eggs really start rolling in - frittata, quiche and egg pies yum! They are getting bigger and more bossy - the hen pictured below is "yes...
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Thursday Garden Gobbles
Baba Ganoush - the name alone is awesome. I had so much eggplant this week, so a favourite from my time living in the middle east was made. This was eaten on turkish bread, with cucumbers as a dip and...
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Saturday Spotlight - Australian Butter climbing beans
I had been looking for a Climbing Butter bean for a while when the Diggers Club released their annual seed catalogue - there is was finally. I bought a packet of their Australian Butter climbing bean...
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Harvest Monday - 18 March 2013
Capsicums or Peppers - what ever you call them I had a lot this week. I forgot to take pictures of the actual fruit but here is a pizza with some lovely red and green Marconi's.Another ugly but...
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Harvest Monday - 8 April 2013
Autumn has well and truly hit, after the long hot summer we had I'm looking forward to cooler temperatures and a bit more rain. I have had a hectic few weeks, 5 short weeks actually which doesn't sound...
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Saturday Spotlight - Red Kuri or potimaron squash
I managed to grow quite a few squash/pumpkin this year in a 1.5m x 2m bed that also housed my beans and corn. I had 3 squash plants placed throughout the bed. I grew Australian Butter and Red Kuri, Red...
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Harvest Monday - 22 April 2013
This year is going so fast and we are already feeling the cold of winter creeping up on us. The temperature on Phillip Island has been ranging from 10-19 degrees(50 - 60 Fahrenheit), I know people...
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Saturday spotlight - 'Cream' Garlic
Oh dear, I seem to have lost another week?!. It seems to happen to me a lot in the colder months, I'm inside busy crafting and sewing instead of gardening.I thought I would spotlight a garlic variety...
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