We have been super excited to watch our asparagus patch finally yield us some delicious morsels. Asparagus takes several years before you can eat the stems, so when they started poking their heads out we were ready. Unfortunately, if you forget to pick them, the aspargus shoots grow very quickly and become woody. We’ve been…
Garden
In The Garden | September 2016
Well it seems like ages since I took you for a little stroll around our garden. Let’s blame the cold and wet because, my goodness, we have had plenty of both. With Spring poking its head out, and the occasional warm sunny day, it’s the perfect time to see what’s happening in the the garden….
How To Freeze Herbs
Our basil was super late growing this year. Earwigs ate the first lot of plants, and the second lot took a while to get going. We even ended up buying several batches of basil to cook with because we didn’t have any in the garden. At long last however, the basil plants are full of…
Grow Just One Thing
What was the first vegetable you remember growing? As a child I can remember growing tomatoes and corn with my parents, as well as strawberries, raspberries, and even sprouts in a jar on the window sill. Country Boy has similar memories of growing vegetables with his family as a child as well. Growing our own…
In Our Vegie Patch | February 2016
After a slow start (those pesky earwigs), the garden is now full of produce. Each day Country Boy is harvesting boxes of tomatoes, eggplants, zucchinis, and corn. The tomatoes started later than they have in previous years. The plants took longer to get established with all those earwigs trying to eat them. They may have…
In The Garden | November 2015
November is always a crazy month in the garden around here. Traditionally we don’t get a frost after Melbourne cup day, so we then scramble to get all the vegetables out of the green house and into the garden. This year we got a super late frost last Thursday which got all our pumpkins, as…
Last Light In The Orchard
My goodness the farm looks pretty at this time of year. Particuarly in the early evening when the setting sun bathes the landscape in its golden light. Country Boy mentioned that some of the fruit trees in the orchard had a lot of small fruit on them, so we wandered down after dinner to take peek….
How Big Is Your Garden?
I often get asked how big our is garden. When people read about the amount of produce we grow, that is the number one question that follows. It’s one of the questions I’m most reluctant to to answer, mainly because I think it can be off putting. Ultimately, it is not how big your garden…
