for the garden to get out of control again. You wouldn’t know that I’d tidied it all up for Christmas. G has been home but has not been tending the garden. Besides some well-past-best snowpeas and the weeds, I’m pretty happy with how it has grown, considering their neglect. We arrived home Saturday, and it has been hot since then, but I spent a short time outside today netting the tomatoes. There were some small green tomatoes growing when I left home on Boxing Day, and since G has not picked any and there are only green tomatoes on the vines, I have to assume that the possums or some other animal have been eating them just before they ripen. I had the same problem last year, but it took me longer to figure out. Other than that we have lots of chillis, eggplants, some beans, snow peas and mini-capsicum. The seeds of Love-in-a-Mist that I scattered around in November have sprouted; some are flowering, and our mandarin tree is covered in fruit.
E and his fiancee, K, arrived home from South Africa on Sunday morning. It looks like they are planning for a wedding in February or March next year. Once K’s parents return home from South Africa, I guess the planning will start in earnest. The four of us took Riley to the beach early this morning before it got too hot. It was very still and sticky and the flies were back again. At the start of summer, there were a lot of flies, so many that they pretty much ruined our long-awaited fish and chips at the beach. Then, we had some weeks of respite. I’m wondering whether these flies are the babies of that earlier infestation. Whatever—they are ANNOYING! Other than that it was a good chance to catch up.
I hope you are all having a wonderful week. I’m off to tidy up my life, which is not unlike our garden at the moment.
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8 responses to “It doesn’t take long …”
Your garden is lovely, wonderful pictures. My friend send me a little mandarin tree for Christmas! Of course no fruit for the first few years I don’t think, but I like picturing it.
Planning a wedding…sounds like a lot of work, lots of decisions, lots of money, lots of fun!
This mandarin had fruit its first year, but we have a number of others that are yet to fruit. They are in their second year, so hopefully next year we will start to see fruit on all our citrus.
Your garden looks so lush and amazing! I used to have a garden plot at a community garden about a half a mile from our house, but I had to let go of it after we had our second son as it was just too hard to get over there consistently. The favorite thing I grew was probably tomatillos! I made so much green salsa and we can it. I’d like to get back to doing that again someday when I don’t have really little children!
I can imagine how hard it was to keep up with the community plot. I always had a hard enough time looking after veggie garden in my own backyard.
It’s so fun to see garden photos in January! So much deliciousness just waiting for you!
We are lucky because we can grow some kind of veggies all year, but summer has the best.
Your garden is bursting with produce. So fun.
I am slowly starting to wonder what kind of things I want to grow this year. I really enjoyed my Sorel last year and as of now it is still alive. I would love to part it and make it two plants but am a bit scared I kill it. Need to do more research.
Most likely I will do radishes again and eat the leaves because I never get the roots right it seems. Or should I try my hand in peas? I would also like to do zucchini. Maybe I give that a try but I would probably need another pot. We’ll see. I used to have a kumquat tree and even managed to have a few to eat. It did bloom but no bees came for pollination the following years and my brush didn’t do the trick. It died in the cold one winter.
I am sure the wedding planning will be fun even though many decisions need to be made by the bride and groom.
Zucchini can be super prolific, you only need one plant but it would need its own pot. Peas are yummy, I look forward to seeing what yuo decide to do.