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Eating this week – 5 September
Last weeks vege diary didn’t happen. I went on a little holiday, plus I had a house guest which left me lacking time. Just because I didn’t write it down doesn’t mean we didn’t eat home grown veges. We had a leek and bacon flan and a coleslaw made from red cabbage. This week I [...]
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Eating this week –22 August
We are beginning to feel the shortage of home grown veges that happens in late winter early spring. As I stood in the garden working out what we would eat this week I realised that it was leeks or leeks,and maybe silverbeet. So we will eat one leek, still worth a $1.00, the last of [...]
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First planting
Spring is very close Plum blossom I’ve observed some other signs that spring is close. My last cabbage cracked. This is the beginning of it flowering. The cabbage must have sensed the sun and thought it was a good time to send out seed. The oldest of the spring onions are starting to flower and [...]
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Eating this week – 15 August
Did you see this article? I haven’t brought a lettuce for such a long time, but they are out of season, so of course they are going to be expensive. This week at the market I bought 3kg bag of carrots, $2.80 and large, beautiful, cauliflower for $1.50 and that’s all the veges I bought, [...]
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Good ideas
Since becoming a mother I have discovered a hitherto unknown talent for good ideas. I thought I might share my latest one. The family is preparing to leave the house and G2 calls out ‘Mum I can’t carry all my stuff out to the car.’ I, as the critical mother, took one look at what [...]
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Potential
If you are trying to feed your family from your garden you need to plan. At the moment I’m starting to think about planting seeds for summer crops. But I do have veges growing that will feed us between now and November when the abundance of summer usually starts. Broad bean flowers. The (in)famous silverbeet [...]
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Eating this week – 8 August
So how much have we saved this week? I bought 1/2 a celery, which cost $1.00, a small bag of brussel sprouts, $1.50, a bag of yams $1.50, a large grey pumpkin to make soup, $2.50 and the killer, a 10kg bag of spuds, $7.98. A total of $14.48. I spent $14 on fruit. On [...]
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Pests
Homely wife one, possum nil, I’ve won this battle, but the war continues.
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Stock Take
Before I begin seriously documenting what we grow in our garden I thought might clarify some things. As well as being big people we do have a big section – an acre and a half. This makes things slightly easier when it comes to growing food because we have more space. But when we moved [...]
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