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08 Feb 2008Scrumptious Kamokamo (Maori Squash) and 'round the back garden
I’ve eaten one kamokamo now. I picked it at the size of a large fist, quartered it, and steamed it for about ten minutes or so, then shared it in a meal with the neighbour who gave me the plant in the first place. Kamokamo are delicious! I have two more on their way. I’ve found that t...
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04 Feb 2008What variety are these? 1 Beans and 'round the back garden
I’m picking beans regularly now. A few people have asked me what kind they are and I honestly cannot remember the name. It starts with ‘B’ I think and they are an old ‘heritage’ variety. They are a yellow/green when growing, bright pink (as pictured) when mature, an...
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23 Jan 2008Harvesting Potato Tire Towers Harvesting and 'round the back gardenWe caught the end of a cyclone earlier this week. A few plants got damaged including my potatoes. They got thrashed by the wind so I decided it was time to harvest them anyway. I got a total of 8kg of spuds. Less than I had hoped for but the size of them was impressive, There were several potatoe...Storms
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08 Jan 2008Abundance Raspberries and 'round the back gardenSince the last post about my rasberries I’ve picked another 400g, which I added to the 400g I already had and made into a batch of jam. It made two 600ml jars. And this afternoon I just picked another 700g which I am about to make into more jam. At this rate I’ll be picking again on t...
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03 Jan 2008Done for this year Blackcurrants and 'round the back garden
Yesterday I picked 1.8kg of ripe blackcurrant from the five plants I have. They are now sitting on my kitchen bench in the form of about 6 litres of homemade jam.
More pictures here….
http://radio.weblogs.com/0128644/2008/01/03.html#a1067
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02 Jan 2008Picking at last Raspberries and 'round the back garden
I picked about 400g of raspberries destined for my jam pan. There’s heaps more fruit coming through too. I think I’ll be picking again in just a few days.
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01 Jan 2008Birds-0 Me-1 Raspberries and 'round the back garden
My first attempt at protecting my raspberry crop from the birds was a failure. The silver-eyes (or wax-eyes as they are also known) got in and feasted. So I had a second attempt and made a better job of it. I put up bamboo framing, tied together with strawbale twine, and hang the bird netting ove...
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