Archive for August, 2007
dinner
promise
August 27, 2007
every year a bigger crop
August 26, 2007
the tree’s three years old now
the plum trees
August 24, 2007
half of the one out the back is starting to bud…..
the other half is a different graft and will join these greens later
the tree out the front is even further on
That front tree was on the section when we bought it.
We agreed with the neighbours that it needed to come out -
it was ugly, scraggly, [...]
what is success?
August 24, 2007
weeds oops, I mean, green cover crop
too lazy to pull out the chilli plant at the end of summer
the last red chilli
ok, there’s no other way to say it
(at least, not with my limited knowledge of gardening)
ugly black powdery stuff all over the mandarin tree
In the top picture, success is that there is no black [...]
is this a garden story?
August 16, 2007
At the supermarket I made the unusual-for-us, but almost-necessary-when-you-consider-the-cost of-fresh-produce-at-this-time-of-year (and the sorry state of my hardly producing garden) decision to buy Peas In A Plastic Bag. T3 watched with interest as I placed them in the trolley, and then asked, “Mama, please may I help you shell them when we get home?”
Somehow it was [...]
do you ever…
August 11, 2007
take the compost out…and when you get back the kids say “You were gone aaaaages Mama”
I did! And they’re right, I was.
Somehow I got sidetracked pulling weeds in the vege garden….and when one plot was done it only seemed right to do the other one too. I hope the silverbeet I uncovered don’t die of [...]
from there to here
August 3, 2007
Trying to switch to WordPress.com because Sarah said it was best.
It’s taken a few days, but I think I’ve done it!
I love having a photo of *my* garden at the top of the page, instead of Blogger’s Green!
Now I just need to do something in the garden, so that I’ve got something to write about!
Actually, [...]
