From Garden to Table

 Yesterday I harvested 2 kilos of cherry tomatoes, gave  some to my neighbour, used 500g in a Moroccan Tagine meal for dinner and cooked up the rest to make a delicious home made sauce. We will use this with pasta, on pizzas and when we make home made meataballs and bolognaise.

 The plants still have many tomatoes on them, so I will be picking again today and cooking again this afternoon. We use recycled jars and just add caster sugar and water, though next time I may add a few herbs too.

 Another first today, Creamy Spinach Soup, I am really pleased with it and will certainly be making it again.

Minced Beef and Spinach Curry

 Cooked up a wonderful curry tonight using spinach and garlic chives from the garden tonight.

Paths, Traps and Produce

 The front hedge is gradually becoming a hedge and now I have used newspaper and wood-chips to create a path to try and stop the grass continually growing into the garden.

 The mulberry tree is producing fruit and we are using the Mediterranean flytraps in all of our fruit trees. Hopefully this will be effective, and is less work than the exclusion bags we tried last year.

 Our kale and spinach has been very effective, now to find lots more recipes to use them in!

Here is the blueberry plant, lots of tiny flowers so we hope for fruit again this year. In the background is the fruit salad plant, we have not yet had fruit from this.

Spinach and Ricotta Frittata

We have lots of spinach, kale and rainbow chard in the garden so I am trying to cook some with every meal. So for lunch I cooked my first frittata, this recipe was very easy and I just used spinach instead of zucchini. It was delicious and we will definitely be having this more often.

Our Garden Today

Despite the cyclonic winds that we had last week most of our plants are doing well. We did lose a lot of Passion-fruits and leaves from the vine and the Fig tress look very unhappy. However, the winter veg and strawberries are fine and taste delicious.

WA Update 15th August 2010

We are growing Snow Peas up the old pool fence and they have just started flowering, cannot wait until we have some to eat.

The Everlasting Daisies are looking blooming marvelous out the front, though they do seem to have enveloped  the Fig Tree!

Pulled all the  Purple Dragon Carrots out today and planted  Cylindra Beetroot and  Darwin and Cos Lettuce, The Perennial Spinach and kale are still flourishing.

The little garden we put beside the front porch is now doing well, the Basil is large and bushy and so is the Purple Sage, in the front you can see more carrots and our first Coriander grown from seed.

Have now cleared out two of the volunteer tomato bushes and planted Borlotti beans and Massey Gem peas which will hopefully grow up the fence. Have also planted some more Thyme and Oregano which will be a ground cover. Watered everything in with a seaweed mixture and added lots of shredded scrap paper and the contents of our new Bokashi bucket to the compost heap.