Tag: The kitchen’s garden
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Long Shots, giggly piglets and bottles of beer.
This is the lane from the house to the gravel road. We are looking East. On the right which is the South side is the sweetcorn with the Maize up behind it. You can see how tall the maize (field corn) is when you see my tractor in front of it. Also look at how…
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More Wine Less Whine
Yesterday we bottled the Vidal Blanc wine from last seasons grapes. The wine has been working in its little glass barrels for almost a year now. And the little taste I was allowed before it flowed through the pipes and into the bottles led me to believe that this will be a definite improvement on…
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Trashy novels and the Big Fat Chickens Plan
In between the weeding and feeding and lifting and pulling. And cooing and catching and patting. And watering and weeding and pruning and picking and shucking and bagging. I read a trashy novel. The whole thing. It is true I am a fast reader. I am not going to tell you the name of the…
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Milkweed for Monarchs and a Daily Piggie Feast
Surely these ravenous beasts need weaning soon she thinks. Sorry Charlotte not for couple more weeks. They are in training to drink water from the spigot. Do you see the little spigot poking through the fence, this is attached to a hose that runs out of the base of a big water barrel on blocks.…
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I can’t see you, so you can’t see me and a floating chook!
Little piggy games. Funny dog Games. Yesterday we sowed all the high summer vegetables all over again. The secret to growing lots of food across a whole summer is successive plantings. Already we are eating like kings. Last night we had lamb burgers flavoured with mint and fresh garlic, slathered with a chimichurri made from…

