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Blueberry season!

11 May

So these are southmoon and misty blueberry bushes. They’re so amazingly productive and are doing so well in these small pots I am thinking of ditching all the other plants and just growing blueberries! I am so happy with these. Last weekend got a small handful of blueberries, this weekend, I got two handfuls that didn’t even make them back to the house. I love my weekly blueberry harvest.
Here’s some pics of ones to be ripened as I ate all the tasty ripe ones before taking pics.

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Rehoming growing lotus

24 Mar

I moved everything around a little bit as the lotus water was getting yuckie and it needed a bigger home. I found this fish bowl laying around so hopefully it will be perfect for my little lotus.

Also added rocks to the vase lotus.

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Fast growing lotus!

9 Mar

These guys grow fast! So I took this on before work.

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And took this one just now, nine hours later!

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It’s a skink!

3 Mar

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Cleaning out the garden today and moving/reporting some plants. Was surprised to find two little skinks hiding under a pot.

I have never seen these before, I thought it was just a couple of worms but then they started running away… On tiny legs!

Also my newly repotted cactus is flowering.

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My first homegrown asparagus!

9 Feb

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So here’s the first guy of the season! My first year harvesting since buying the little plants a few years ago. I snapped this one off about 8 inches tall. They grow pretty quickly and once they’re ferning out they are beyond eating I believe.

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These ones are just little guys. Hopefully I will get some more as spring rolls around :)

Pineapple guava shedding leaves but still a couple of fruit left

6 Nov

I have probably had a dozen little strawberry sized pineapple guavas this year which I am most impressed with as I wasn’t expecting anything. The pulpy center has a very fragrant purfumey taste which my hubby described as soapy but to me, they taste like mixed, tropical, miscellaneous fruit flavour :)

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Small but colourful September harvest

2 Oct

The onions have been curing for a while, I just couldn’t decided what to do with them so finally putting them in the fridge.

Besides onions, there are some cherry bell peppers from a plant that survived from last year, some jalapeƱo chili peppers, tomatoes, lemons and tiny eggplants I decided to harvest early.

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Today’s harvest. August Ratatouille or eggplant cacciatore?

20 Aug

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Harvest meal. Thai chicken Basil/Eggplant

10 Aug

Homegrown meals are the best!

Although these eggplants are pretty small, they weren’t apparently getting any bigger and I have made the mistake of waiting too long before until they were dry, seedy and not good too eat.

I only had to add chicken to these ingredients to complete the dish and served with it with quinoa. Yum!

Hopefully I will get many more eggplants this season!

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August Update – Other things growing in the edible garden….

6 Aug

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