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!
Showing posts with label fruits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruits. Show all posts
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Spring's here...
All have gone crazy with growing (as usual every Spring, eh?)
According to the 28th July post, I should have 6 nice pears growing - however those cursed cockatoos have gone ahead and demolished them before I could take photos! Not a happy gal!
Anyway, I've gone crazy with vegie planting lately - lots of beans, eggplants, zucchinis, tomatoes, lettuces, kale, strawberries, peas, cucumbers... can't have enough of them! Once I've done with the plantings, I will put up what I've got going then.
The red cabbage is not doing so well. Out of 7, only one forming a definite head while the other is only barely there - so I am guessing the wicking beds are bit too warm for those cold vegies? It is really nice and warm in the soil this evening when I planted in the rest of eggplant and cucmber seedlings.
The fruit trees are doing really well! I really have to take photos of them soon. Out of 13 plum trees, we'd have 11 fruiting. Out of 10 apple trees, we have about 8 flowered. Out of 4 peach/nectarine trees, we've got 3 fruiting. Out of who knows pears, we've got 4 flowered. 3 huge elder trees are full of elderflowers, so here to the elderflower cordial - I just need to find a suitable recipe and get more sugar (many recipes are asking for 1.5 kg!!! All citrus trees are flowering, fruiting and basically going crazy! The recent rains helped. Even the figs are joining the act with numerous fruits on them as well as the tiny Hick's Fancy mulberry tree's full of fruits - yummy!!
The hazelnut and chestnut trees are in leaf now, with the walnut close by.
The banana trees' fruited and I am still waiting for the fingers to be bit more bigger before I'd harvest a bunch.
However with the recent violent storms we have been having around here last few weeks have took toll on the native trees with 8 of them down (as far as I can see) and I'd need to go into the bush area to see if there are more gone down, etc. Looks like it's time to call in the tree-choppers...
The mozzies are not nice - they've been harassing my baby boy the last few days - so that means it's a season of nasty mozzies here now. Ugh!
We're down to 7 chookies now - and I am fixing up my incubator so I can order in some more fertile Croad Langshan eggs from QLD to build up my flock.
Harvested a wheelbarrow full of potatoes and we had some baby potatoes into warm potato salad which tasted so good! :D
The garlic, onions, and leeks are doing so well - in a couple of months they will be harvested.
Grapevines are doing great, as two of them have fruited! The baby kiwifruit is also doing great, so that means soon I'd have two female kiwifruit vines growing next to the male one. Yah!
See what I mean - there's lot going on here and I barely have enough time to do all. A bit at a time I guess, eh?
I just need to shop around for some sheep to help keeping grass short!
Photos coming up in the next post! Anything else you'd like to know, pls let me know.
Cheers till later!
According to the 28th July post, I should have 6 nice pears growing - however those cursed cockatoos have gone ahead and demolished them before I could take photos! Not a happy gal!
Anyway, I've gone crazy with vegie planting lately - lots of beans, eggplants, zucchinis, tomatoes, lettuces, kale, strawberries, peas, cucumbers... can't have enough of them! Once I've done with the plantings, I will put up what I've got going then.
The red cabbage is not doing so well. Out of 7, only one forming a definite head while the other is only barely there - so I am guessing the wicking beds are bit too warm for those cold vegies? It is really nice and warm in the soil this evening when I planted in the rest of eggplant and cucmber seedlings.
The fruit trees are doing really well! I really have to take photos of them soon. Out of 13 plum trees, we'd have 11 fruiting. Out of 10 apple trees, we have about 8 flowered. Out of 4 peach/nectarine trees, we've got 3 fruiting. Out of who knows pears, we've got 4 flowered. 3 huge elder trees are full of elderflowers, so here to the elderflower cordial - I just need to find a suitable recipe and get more sugar (many recipes are asking for 1.5 kg!!! All citrus trees are flowering, fruiting and basically going crazy! The recent rains helped. Even the figs are joining the act with numerous fruits on them as well as the tiny Hick's Fancy mulberry tree's full of fruits - yummy!!
The hazelnut and chestnut trees are in leaf now, with the walnut close by.
The banana trees' fruited and I am still waiting for the fingers to be bit more bigger before I'd harvest a bunch.
However with the recent violent storms we have been having around here last few weeks have took toll on the native trees with 8 of them down (as far as I can see) and I'd need to go into the bush area to see if there are more gone down, etc. Looks like it's time to call in the tree-choppers...
The mozzies are not nice - they've been harassing my baby boy the last few days - so that means it's a season of nasty mozzies here now. Ugh!
We're down to 7 chookies now - and I am fixing up my incubator so I can order in some more fertile Croad Langshan eggs from QLD to build up my flock.
Harvested a wheelbarrow full of potatoes and we had some baby potatoes into warm potato salad which tasted so good! :D
The garlic, onions, and leeks are doing so well - in a couple of months they will be harvested.
Grapevines are doing great, as two of them have fruited! The baby kiwifruit is also doing great, so that means soon I'd have two female kiwifruit vines growing next to the male one. Yah!
See what I mean - there's lot going on here and I barely have enough time to do all. A bit at a time I guess, eh?
I just need to shop around for some sheep to help keeping grass short!
Photos coming up in the next post! Anything else you'd like to know, pls let me know.
Cheers till later!
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Today's photos!
Just thought I'd share some photos I took today as it was a lovely and sunny day.
My dear DH came out and helped with weeding!! Such a rare sight so fortunate I've got photos to prove that he can weed! :D
I think all the rains have helped a bit...
From ALS, I thought I'd have a go with making home-made lemon oil vinegar for both cooking and cleaning.
My Lemonade tree's full of fruits and its' still flowering! So gotta lighten up its load and used the peels for this special project.
The idea is to infuse the vinegar (in this case I used cheap white vinegar) in a glass jar with citrus peels for two weeks to allow the oils to leach out into the vinegar. From 5 mins after peeling lemonade skins into the jar, the vinegary smell has been replaced with lemony smell! So it will be interesting to see how it goes over the time.
I will juice the lemonades for juice and freeze them for summer - lemonade sorbet anyone? :D
Cheers till later!
 |
| Gorgeous little broccoli head |
 |
| Weeding the oldest boy's bed |
 |
| The north side of the beds - see potato plants! |
 |
| Mid beds - all green eh? |
 |
| Another potato plants bed in front |
My Lemonade tree's full of fruits and its' still flowering! So gotta lighten up its load and used the peels for this special project.
 |
| Lemonade oil infused vinegar |
The idea is to infuse the vinegar (in this case I used cheap white vinegar) in a glass jar with citrus peels for two weeks to allow the oils to leach out into the vinegar. From 5 mins after peeling lemonade skins into the jar, the vinegary smell has been replaced with lemony smell! So it will be interesting to see how it goes over the time.
I will juice the lemonades for juice and freeze them for summer - lemonade sorbet anyone? :D
 |
| A bucketful of citrus fruits from our Citrus orchard - lucky us, eh? |
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)