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I walked around in the rain, sighed and went out to visit a friend.

I'm chomping my way through the last of the apples. The Feijoas have produced a bumper crop and I now have a couple of chutney recipes as well as a non alcoholic fizz drink recipe to try out. First lot of the Fuyu Persimmons got cut off the tree today- my dog was very interested til he smelt...

Not that I have heard, but what a nice idea!

You need to dig up your corn and plant it again, but this time in a block or they wont pollinate properly. They are wind pollinated not by insects.

Depending on whether you actually get frosts and how bad, you should be able to grow carrots, peas, brassicas of all types, leeks, loose leaf lettuce. You can also look at shallots, onions, spring onions, broad beans. I'm taking a punt with a late sowing of beetroot, its just come up, but I...

Wear gloves when you go to town, was em when you get home, then wash your hands as well. Apparently this bug can sit on shiny surfaces for 72 hours. Dont forget to wipe down the laptop first.

I managed to run around and weed eat the edges and the rock walls out front, then mow both little front and back lawns and get an small part of the next path done before it started to rain again. Check my seedlings and pulled a few weed sprouts too. Had a chat through the shrubs with my...

Honey that has been taken from the hive with all cells fully capped and stored where it cannot reabsorb moisture will keep amazingly well. Its hydroscopic and will absorb moisture from the air. Its also this same property that is what helps you heal when applied to wounds. It literally sucks the...

Stay home, dont accept visitors.

I had to get milk powder too. It doesnt taste the same as it used to and once I open a pack, i need to keep it in the freezer or it seems to go off. Just checked the updates site this morning. It hasnt been updated from yesterday yet, but I did notice that only 7 people are actually in hospital...

We are in our first day of lock down and will be for 4 weeks at least. I dont think anybody here was expecting that as we dont have that many cases and havent had a single death from this to date. I do question the timing of this, more so after reading through this thread. I had ordered some...

I had Silkies once what great little birds they are, unless thy are trying to follow the kids to school. Mine were 'borrowed' from my brother and by the time i got them, most of them were at least 5 years old but still laid every day in summer. At eight years old, they got to go live with my...

Um....sorry, cant stop giggling. It is nice to see someone so enthusiastic over the beautiful randomness of nature.

I had two choices- water tank/solar power....at the time, I couldnt get my head around the solar power thing and knew I did need water- for the garden and for emergencies. Two of the best choices I ever made were getting a gas (bottle not mains) cooktop- when the power goes out, I can still make...

I weaned myself off TV, having the radio on for background noise, got a carbon neutral firebox installed with a proper wetback so over winter my hot water bill is zero. I can also cook on the top and often have a pot of vegie soup burbling away. My eletrical bill is minumal, thanks to 'my hour...

Please dont sow the new comers. They will cross and ruin your native plants

While I have also been spending way too much on those really interesting, unusual and hard to find seed, I have been saving my own, one in particular is Nigella- an old type of love in the mist. The flowers come in blue white and pink and I use the seed in my cooking, now that I actually have...

Yes!! I agree whole heartedly. We all have soil that is local and its not all the same, but i am thinking that what our soil and our plants, be them annuals or perennials need is organic matter and I have come to the conclusion that we need to adding and literally pouring in organic carbon. I...

I dont know about that, yours' sounds more in tune with nature.

I promised the person that I have been getting my mushroom bags from, that I would not grow non native species that could cross with our native ones. I was told that the Burgandy- whatever else its called, is a native and I hope it is because I also think we need to try to keep our native plans...