OK finally winter is here. Full swing and with big white teeth. We have had our coldest ever recorded morning last Wednesday with -10.5 deg C. The amazing thing was when I went out it certainly did not feel that cold. There was not a breath of wind and everything was absolutely still. After I [...]
Wow! This time of the year we are normally fighting off frost every morning and are looking at our last veggies with pity as we watch them die off with the winter cold. With this strange weather and an extended autumn, I’m still picking tomatoes out of the garden, our peppers have come into their [...]
Not much has been happening recently, all of our winter stuff is now in and we are just waiting on crops to ripen so that we can harvest. I have started getting some of the new tomatoes off the plants and we will have these up by mid April latest.
I picked my first Pubescens chillie [...]
Summer is now really drawing to a close and I’m watching my tomatoes in the bottom garden so that we can start processing, we have a few that are getting there but just not fast enough for my liking.
One can feel the winter chill in the evening and with the loss of light we know [...]
At this time our season is winding down to late summer, we have many beds that are opening up for our winter planting and seed processing is high on our daily chore list. In the open beds we will be putting in Hard Red Winter Wheat, as well as a host of pea’s, cauliflower, broccoli, [...]
Well, we are still playing catch-up with our harvests, the first flush of tomatoes is slowing so we only do tomatoes every 3 days now, but it’s time to process other veggies, beetroot and carrots are high on the list. We have been picking pumpkins for a while now, and it’s nice to watch our [...]
This is the season when all the work starts, we are picking about 10-15 kg’s of tomatoes and bags of beans every day now, it’s getting to the point where every surface is covered with brightly coloured tomatoes in all colours shapes and sizes. Every 2 days we blend them down and reduce them into [...]
Our garden is looking better and better by the day, the weeding has been sorted with some concerted effort and at least our garden looks like we care. We have just started to harvest the first of our seeds, and most of the Borlotto Fire Tongues are harvested and busy drying out, De Grace peas [...]
Summer is here… apparently. However this last week has seen some really unseasonal weather with COLD COLD COLD. The worst is the COLD wet conditions which is just not beneficial to our gardens. However that said we have finally seen our plants taking off and we are about a week away from our first heirloom [...]
Wow, every evening when I get home, one of the first things is to have a look at what how my plants are doing. What a pleasure to see your seeds and work growing right before your eyes. My mouth waters as I walk through and I think of the fresh heirloom tomatoes bursting with [...]
OK, spring is here in a big way. We have been having some hot days with the thermometer knocking 30 deg on some days. Planting is in full swing in our gardens. This weekend it’s the tomatoes turn to get planted out. I’m very excited about the varieties that we have planted. Normally we only [...]
Well, it looks like we have seen the last of the bad frost, we may, just may get a few points of frost in the next week or two, but otherwise it’s roll on spring. Our wheat is throwing spikes, the first of the corn is coming up and our cold frame is doing wonders [...]
Spring is here, ok it’s been a bit of a cold day today but here is irrefutable proof. My asparagus are pushing through. Our first harvest of the season is here!!
On Monday we had a whole 3 spears in our salad, my excitement is mounting day by day. I can’t wait for this weekend when [...]
At this time of the year we are starting to plan our spring planting. A lot of early things are going into the cold frame so that we can get a head-start on spring, as we have heaps of new heirloom varieties that need to be planted for the online shop. A sincere thanks to [...]
