Tag: tomatoes
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Peahens on the Catwalk, Kitten in the Garden
Pania and Tui. Posing for the paparrazi. Signatures later! Maybe. Lots of flat-out farm work again yesterday. Working on the little hoop house, and bringing in as much produce as is left in the gardens, tonight it is meant to freeze down to 35F (1.6C) so it a race against time. Who knows if the…
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Boys and Chicks
I love having children on the farm. Just having fun. After the mandatory swim, this fellow gathers eggs, feeds the cats, (Egoli was found at his house so he always brings him and Tiba a little pot of food each). He picks tomatoes in the gardens then settles down with a little jar of dried…
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The Winter Quarters
There comes a time in the year when I must accept that winter is coming and I have to start getting The Farmy prepared. Not that I am giving up on summer quite yet you understand. But the cold winters here are deeply unforgiving of a casual attitude. It was a beautiful late summer day…
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The Kitchen’s Garden Garden!
The gardens this year have largely been a disappointment. Crops like the potatoes, cucumbers, zuchinni, butternuts, pumpkins, and beans have either refused to fruit or curled up and died due to that extreme heatwave we had. But the aubergine, beetroot and capsicum all in the drought resistant frog garden are doing very well. Now that…
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Easy Tomato Chutney
My mother was the jam maker and my father preserved hundreds of jars of fruit,every summer. We ate one huge jar of peaches or pears every day at breakfast – if the season had been good. So it was kind of rare for one of my parents to make a chutney or relish. My great…
The Kitchen's Garden 