Holidays always get in the way of gardening. By the time we got back from the High Country, our veggie garden was full of nettle seedlings. I adore nettle, but it has a nasty habit of taking over when you aren't looking, so that was the first job. Besides, it had obscured the beetroot seedlings.
There was a lovely abundance of peppers in the greenhouse, and the chillis are finally getting some heat to them, as I found when I had a stir fry and my eyes were watering just frying the chilli and garlic. Hopefully there's enough for hot sauce.
The self seeded flat leaf parsley in the wicking beds loves it there and hasn't gone to seed all summer as it never dries out. We have lots of spring onions as usual, probably the easiest thing to grow and just sprouted from super market ones. Anyone can do this just in a pot.
There's a lot I don't bother planting from seed as it comes up every year, such as fennel, lettuce and coriander. Sometimes the garden knows what is best and doesn't stick to human schedules.
We have had a lot of quince but as I don't really have sugar I haven't been sure what to do with them. Inventing a honey quince cake might be a job for next week.
The eggplants finally bore fruit - only fifteen or so which is disappointing as I love eggplant. But I think I'll do these wicking style next year in the greenhouse for the longer season. It's meant to be hot and dry so that'll be a better option. El Nino will bring it's trials I'm sure.
We did our best to remove the last hops bine yesterday. I feel sad about it but it's very uneconomical in garden hours and takes over like the wolf it is. For my fresh hops next year I'll have to shout out to growers in the area. I'm going to get rid of the chayote for similar reasons. It's just too hard to maintain and whilst I can manage it, if we go away to Europe next year I can't imagine a tennant keeping it under control.
I managed to get Jamie to help weed one of the native beds that's the west side to our whole garden. The bottom end is the back entrance to the chook coop and I'm slightly embarrassed anytime anyone comes over as it's always a weedy mess. It took hours as the grass there puts down insane roots. But it looks great now. All it needs is mulch. There's a huge dumped pile of mulch in the reserve but Jamie has to hook up the trailer to one of the Landrovers and he is not willing to do it yet which is causing some argument, as I've been asking for some time. I know if it doesn't get mulched the weeds will grow and cause more work, but from his perspective is busy and tired.
I also found where one of the chooks has been laying, in the comfrey patch. Two have been escaping a lot and I can't figure out how. I know there's probably another clutch of eggs hidden somewhere as we aren't getting many in the nesting boxes. Sometimes I wish we didn't have chickens.
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I wish I have a garden too, having a garden needs a proper care and management and your veggies garden is not doing bad with what I'm seeing here, everything looks healthy.
I'm very grateful - it's hard work, but still, it's rewarding and brings us much joy!
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Wow! the egg plants and sweet pepper have yielded well. Those are my favorite vegetables I enjoy over here. Thanks so much for sharing.
I adore eggplant. How do you cook it? I love it roast the best, or fried with tamarind and chilli.
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My sister's duck also used to lay eggs on a bush inside my vegetable garden, once in a while we are surprised that there are now ducklings roaming around/inside the garden, and then we realized that the ducks again laid eggs on the bush.
Haha that's great! I guess you had a male duck (drake) as well, right? How are you, @afterglow, long time no see! Sorry about that.
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Yes, I got one Drake. I have been so busy these past few months but I was again able to start planting some vegetables in improvised pots, happy to engage in the community once again.
Aww lol...I love that second type of 'eggplant' you have there. The girls are pretty clever when they lay like that. It's always an adventure! Good looking produce..Yum!!
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Hahaha I love your play on words, and how lovely to see you on my post!
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It's like a different world. Having a garden with such things growing is like a dream for me. Don't take it for granted. What a gift.
I saw quince once and bought it. I had never tried it before. It was strange and not really edible raw. Well I guess it was edible but not enjoyable. The taste was pleasant but the texture was not appealing. I would make jam.😏 I can't imagine the thrill of seeing eggplant growing. Enjoy!
You know, I never take it for granted. I don't know if it's a kinda mindfulness practice, or if travelling and being on HIve show me how other people live, or whether I am just giddy with joy for being alive and privileged the way I am. Honestly I would slap myself whenever I feel ungrateful!
Now, it's only good with sugar really. It'd be interesting to see what you do with it. Baked quinces with spices/rum and some kind of cream (vegan of course) and pickled quinces with vegan cheese, or spanish style membrillo seem to be the only thing one can do with quinces! Once they are pickled I guess they'd be interesting in another kinda marinade like a chilli oil in some kind of wrap? I don't know, I find it hard to think out the box with quinces.
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Those darn chickens hiding their eggs. Its not like someone is going to take them 😮 that quince photo and eggplant photo too are very pretty 🤩 you could print and frame them
Today (Sunday) we are getting rain and everything that hasn't already taken off, will this week. Lots of flowers right now, very early for this area. And I have a robin in the nest in the azalea with 3 deep blue eggs...
Oh I love robins. We have Australian ones here but not really at our place. In the national forest near us there are pink breasted ones.
A greenhouse sounds like a good idea for planting, but unfortunately I lack the cost for all that, although I really want to have a greenhouse where I will grow grapes, hopefully next year your eggplant can have a big harvest
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We have a rucola here that is in bloom, and I just prefered to leave it so it can scatter itself all around without me having to plant it 🤗
Where in Europe are you heading to??
Good luck for the mulch!