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25 Dec 2007Getting bigger but... Kamokamo (Maori Squash) and 'round the back garden
still just flowers. The vines are about 1.5m long now.
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24 Dec 2007Time to begin picking Zucchini and The River Garden (front yard) garden
Just ten days after the first flowers appeared, the first of the courgettes are ready for picking. I’ll let one go and see how big I can grow it, just for fun and for next years seeds.
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18 Dec 2007another picture Blackcurrants and 'round the back garden
Another branch that could hold the weight of all those wet black-currents.
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18 Dec 2007Rain & Gravity Blackcurrants and 'round the back garden
Some of the black-current bushes suffered some damage after the heavy rain we’ve had here the last two days. With all that fruit and the extra weight of the rainwater a few branches have given way to gravity. The plants can hardly keep the fruit off the ground. I will do a pick to lighten t...
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15 Dec 2007Strange bug 1 Potato Tire Towers and 'round the back garden
I photographed this strange looking flying insect at rest in my potato plants this evening.
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15 Dec 2007First colour Raspberries and 'round the back garden
I just put the bird netting up last weekend and yesterday I ate my first ripe raspberries. Should be a good crop coming.
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15 Dec 2007The Flowers 1 2 Potato Tire Towers and 'round the back garden
Just posting a closeup of the flowers. I ate some new potatoes that I dug by hand from the front garden last night. Smothered in melted butter just boiled with their skin on… yum.
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15 Dec 2007Good Progress Potato Tire Towers and 'round the back garden
the potato plants are up to my chest now. All are flowering. I’m going to knock over one tower in about a week and use the tires to start another crop.
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15 Dec 2007Flowering now. Kamokamo (Maori Squash) and 'round the back garden
They are doing very well at the end of the garden and flowering like mad now.
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14 Dec 2007Colour! Blackcurrants and 'round the back garden
Currents on two of the five bushes are starting to ripen. I ate the first one yesterday. They are big and juicy. No birds have breached the perimeter yet.
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