sorry for my tardiness..
I hope you had a truly amazing day. You deserve only the very best. May the year ahead be wonderfully special for you..
love ~ Nonna xx
visit for the long weekend, and we are all attending the Hobart Cup tomorrow.
Having a lot of fun putting our hats and accessories together :)
to come along to puppy school this week.
It was so much fun to see our little boy socializing with sooooo many cute little puppies.
.... they are slowly ripening – yay!
These will be a blackberry tart with sorbet for a weekend treat!
..of jam making this morning.
All up 20 jars of capegooseberry & lemon, and zucchini, ginger and lemon.
NOT..KEEPING..UP !!!
I was only meant to be out for a short while today, catching up with the watering and weeding, and instead found ALL this to harvest and more.
- Cape gooseberries to become jam tomorrow
- Zucchinis to also be made into a zucchini/ginger/lemon jam
- Potatoes to store away
- The coriander also had to be lifted and I will dry the seed heads
- Planted more seeds of cress and rocket
with a wheelbarrow that is past its use-by date, and a replacement tyre is going to cost three times as much as the original wheelbarrow?
If you are anything like me, you make it into a great salad bowl. DH drilled a few holes in the bottom for me. I filled it up with compost and potting mix and have planted an assortment of seeds, and voila !!!
of zucchini pickles have started off the beginning of my preserving season. I can already see that it is going to a long, long, one….;-)
Passage to Power by Leslie Kenton
I bought this book a few years back and had only skimmed through it, as I was forever loaning it to friends. Well, the last time I loaned it out, it was never returned, and in frustration, I purchased a new copy for myself, and have now managed to read it all AND, it won’t be going out of the house EVER!
I picked kilos and kilos of zucchini this morning ~ the beginning of a huge crop.
I have sliced and grated them with onions, and tomorrow morning they will become our first pickles for the season!
thankyou for being a wonderful friend here. You deserve only the best on your special day
Much love ~ Nonna
to this precious little puppy who has come into Ume and B’s lives.
He makes us smile every day, and is such a joy. Playful, full of life and just plain happy and cheeky most of the time. He has had a few health issues, but Ume and B are getting those under control with the help of fabulous vets.
This past week he has started to join us on our morning walk and has just added a highlight to our days.
that my girls are starting to enjoy sewing as much as I do.
Even though they don’t get a lot of time to pursue this interest, whenever they come home, they always manage to find the time to make a quilt each.
This past Christmas Tidds made a beautiful contemporary quilt, and N made a stunning quilt for her partner and a baby quilt for a dear friend.
yes, it is definitely your birthday here!
Hoping that the year ahead is bursting with wonderful moments for you.
Have a happy day and an awesome year
Nonna xx
I was totally obsessed with keeping the frost of all my cape gooseberry plants this past winter, and every night I was out there with blankets covering them up, so that this summer I would have early fruit.
Well, early fruit I have, and now I am going nuts trying to keep up with the jam making. I have managed to make more jam in one day, from this precious little berry, that I manage to make ALL year. Usually I am nowhere near picking over the plants until April/May, so to have made so much in January is a bonus.
Absolutely no shortage of this wonderful jam this year!!
.... and one of the reasons I haven’t been on here as much.
A larger garden equals a much larger portion of my time, and as tiring as that is, it has been very satisfying to see it flourishing and producing so much.
We have the best crop of tomatoes that I have ever planted. Berries and fruit are in abundance. Have already harvested my first section of potatoes, and the next two crops will be dug up in the coming weeks.
I have prepared and frozen much of the stone fruit already in preparation for jam and chutney making.
Our first early apples are now only maybe a week away from picking, and then the dehydrator will be coming out of storage ready for drying fruit.
... I have managed in the past 2 weeks to make FOUR quilt tops.
Two are for gifts, and two will be for sale. I just now need to put each one together and complete them.
