Gardening is so much fun when you have buddies to share things with. Our newest neighbours S&D are very much into growing things organically, and we’ve been happily exchanging seeds and plants and produce with each other. One of the things … Continue reading
You know how I keep mentioning that our garden is in a rather natural (overgrown) state? Well, a lot of underbrush has grown, and amidst all those self-sowing plants sprang a vine that worked its way up other plants and … Continue reading
The hot weather has been hard on our plants. Many of them have been struggling to start fruiting, and some of them didn’t succeed before they died off. I was worried about our mystery marrow plant because we had just … Continue reading
We harvested the first (and only) pineapple last weekend. It had ripened on the plant while we were away for a short holiday – stubbornly so, I may add, because we had “requested” that it not ripen while we were … Continue reading