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I discovered that I love tomato juice! So, I have been letting the Beefsteak toms get really ripe, then slice them thinly and salt. My salad spinner basket works better at draining them than my colander, so it sits on top of a cake rack over the salad spinner bowl. I sieved out the seeds this...

Thats okay, lol, I dont like them either.

Yesterday I dead head both the bronze and florence fennel. I kept some of the bronze to dry for the kitchen. Harvested a few more beets which emptied one end of a bed, once I pulled the cucumber out as well. This got weeded of as much convovulus roots as I could find. Once all that was done I...

Today I planted out a couple of rows of lettuce, beets and 3 of red onions and sowed another 6 green beans.(there's just me, so I dont need too many all at once). Harvested the hard leaves off my lemon verbena for my future baths and a few sprigs of new growth for my teas. My baby leeks werent...

I had another go at cooking down the beefsteak toms. Had to stop and think about how I used to do it, cos last weeks took foreeeever! This time, they got a cross cut on the bottom, a quick blanch then peeled and some seeds squished out, then cut up and put in a colander with a small amount o...

I did some this month, my first at sun drying rather than using the dehydrator. They turned out really well. Today, I decided that they were dry enough so they got popped in a jar with Olive oil poured over.

One of the arborists didnt bother to get back to me, the other said he had a job to do my way on the 25th that would also need road management people so he'll see me then....I didnt like that, I wanted a quote, not a turn up and expect me to give him the job. So, today, I messaged an out of town...

I use 'zucchinis' for the little 'normal!!' sized ones and marrows for the monsters that hid til they just couldnt any more...or waited til you had to go out of town for four days before they grew a couple of feet long.

Lunch. Fish I caught on sunday. Coconut cream with my tomatoes, shallots, pickled cucumber and a tiny bit of coriander leaf. This is what we used to call 'raw fish' before we knew about sushi. I think you guys call it ceviche. Its now know as 'Island raw fish'. Here, its made with lemon juice to...

yep...3 hours later, I'm still waiting to hear back from the two local arborists. If I dont hear from them by tomorrow, I'll call the out of towners I used years ago. Today was so stinking hot, all I have done is cut up some of the twigs for mulch and slice and salt the tomatoes to see if it is...

Two hours tying up the tomatoes and trimming leaves off, weeding.....everywhere. That was monday. Yesterday, I was up in the Banksia tree trimming twigs and branches off so I could get a better picture of what needed to be done with a huge trunk that looks seriously stressed. This had been...

Fresh from the garden. I like to steam the cobs rather than boil them, but on the BBQ they taste fab grilled in their 'jackets'. When I got home, I found 3 huge marrows and the cucumber had 6 enormous fruit...cos I had forgetten to take them up with me. I had a go at making some lacto...

Last sunday, I had to go up to Auckland to babysit my grandson. I took a big bag of sweetcorn and another of Hawera (Black Doris seedling) plums. We had a 'corn fest'...yum and with the plums I made them a few jars of jam. I did take up some of my kim chi radish and some of my preserved lemons...

ROFLMAO!!!! No they are not quails.....they are sparrows. They have built a multi bird nest on the north side of my house making good use of some dead (hopefully) Ivy. There are 2-3 nests in that big bundle of straw

@flowerbug, that was a whole weeks worth of chores, not just one day! Tomorrow is my first day back at work so i took it easy today. Julia- nice neighbor, was given some H4 boards of differing sizes as part of her wood stock and asked if I could make use of them- "Yep! and no, you can not burn...

Last week it was so stinky hot, I spent most of my time in the front yard where its cooler due to all the trees I planted over the years. One of the first things I did finally get around to was making a little path with two steps down to the side of the house. My old steps had been 2 flat rocks...

Zuchinni, cucumber, arugula/rocket, lettuce, my homemade lemon pickle- a la Madhur Jaffery...oh man, what a pick me up. So glad I have 6 liters of it! Oh, I found some seriously old marmalade in the bottom of my cupboard. I havent had a grapefruit tree in over 10 years! This marmalade is to die...

The one is the bag is cos there wasnt quite enough to fill another jar. I love sauerkraut, good thing the place my DD works makes some really tasty ones. This is my first Daikon Kim Chi, usually, its the cabbage one. I had a taste this morning, not ready. Today has been yet another crazy summer...

Yesterday, I started work on the next bit of mowing strip for the lawn...then it started raining. So it was back inside. On the way, I harvested the Jin Mat Korean Daikon (4) and made some Kim Chi with them. So far, I like these. Smaller but fast growing, not so strong tasting. Each one was...

This has been a busy week so far. Dump runs on Tuesday and today to get rid of the Mulberry branches that I didnt want to keep for firewood or kindling- too much of the stuff. So far3/4's of it is now gone or sitting in the parking area drying out. I was going to start cutting it up but found...