Bean Time...

Looks so lovely, don't they?

I harvested and blanched 800g of green and yellow French beans from my vegie garden! Pretty proud of myself that I did something so 'practical'. They're in the freezer for now as I love to add them into my stews over winter. Yummy!

Managed to harvested about 400g of green tomatoes - all on window sill waiting to turn red.

Ate some homegrown bananas, they're nice but not so tasty like those Cavendish from shops. Can't complain when we can get 'free' bananas, eh? Used up some into mini muffins that I baked today. I liked it anyway.

The weather is now getting quite chilly lately, so AUTUMN is here! Yah! Actually she made her appearance a while ago, but this week I really noticed her!

Only main complaint I have here is the speed of reproduction of the mould everywhere around the house! I put up two 'damp absorbers' in my wardrobe a couple of weeks ago and today I checked. Full of water! Ack! So there is a very high level of moisture in here at the moment and I am not sure how to fix so that the growth of mould would decrease...

Any ideas?

Back soon with more details.

Cheers till later!

So Summer's here...

I know it's not a regular post, but a short one to say I haven't forgotten to update this.

Today I've harvested about 1.3kg of zucchinis and 400g of beans, along with lettuce, herbs and celery sticks. Not bad, eh?

An exciting news - a chick was hatched a couple of days ago and the broodie's still sitting very tight so I am not sure if there'd be more hatching the next few days before they'd be moved into a safer home away from those big and 'nasty' roosters.

The weeds have gone crazy, so do the vegies and fruits so I cannot complain. Fruit flies are here as they're all over the nectarines. Ugh! So time to put bags over grapes. I only could see ONE kiwifruit on the kiwi vines!! Boo!

Last Thurs I spent an hour helping bottling, corked and labelled kiwifruit wines! Yummy, so will have to buy some for our "cellar" soon I hope. I am surprised to learn that kiwifruit wine is considered as 'dry'.

I've been planting many plants over time around the place, but mainly at the backyard. Got a long list of areas to fill out over the next couple of years. Should be fun, me thinks.

That's about it for now. I've been busy sewing, cooking and organising so I have not really shared much here. Sorry - more coming when I've worked out why Photoshop Elements's Organiser not working.

Cheers till later, peeps!