Feverfew, Passionfruit, Italian Parsley and Aloe Vera

Feverfew

 Having been very busy at work since February the garden has been neglected and it shows as we have very little produce available to use at the moment. We are lucky that we do not need to survive from this garden or we would be in trouble. However there are a few plants which are growing well, above is Feverfew which we planted to encourage beneficial insects, it has daisy like flowers in summer and the ladybirds and bees love it.

Italian Parsley

 Another flourishing favourite is Italian Parsley, we grew this from seed and have been thrilled with the results, great to look at and delicious to eat, no garden should be without it.

Passion-fruit Vine

 When you read about passion-fruit vines, it should be time to trim them back, but ours is covered in green fruit. Luckily i listened to Roots and Shoots on ABC radio yesterday and a caller explained that she no longer prunes back her vine as those small green fruits will ripen and grow once the weather is warmer again. Meanwhile it provides a fantastic screen.

Aloe Vera

 This Aloe Vera plant has grown from a very small cutting I bought at he the local environment centre, I have never used it yet, but hope to do so once it gets larger.

Delicious - Edible Garden

 Too busy to do anything in the garden this weekend other than admire the beauty of this Grapevine and the Passion- fruit flower.

 

And the first ripe Blackberry, with hundreds more to follow, delicious.

Planting, Peas and Passion Fruit Flummery

This is the first time that we have grown Snow Peas and I was really happy to pick some today, they will be delicious in a stir fry later this week.

Also picked another Passionfruit  and was able to make a Passionfruit Flummery for dessert tonight.

The Everlasting Daises are still looking stunnning on the front nature strip.

And today we have topped up half of the garden, transplanted seedlings that have grown from the seeds planted a few weeks ago and added a whole lot more. Not sure how it will all go, but we have lettuce, Red Fig Tomatoes, Yellow Pear tomatoes, Mini Eggplants, Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes and Bok Choy.  We also used worm juice on all the potted fruit trees and added paper to the compost bins.

Below are some photos showing some of the other workers in the garden, thank goodness for insects.