Green Thumb Sunday

Join

After confusing marigolds and geraniums over the years, I've just discovered that I like geraniums. Though my mum tells me they are not called geraniums any more. I brought three different coloured geraniums for the window box outside my kitchen window. This is one of them.

Jess from the garden

Garden Update

I was just checking the lemon tree and it looks like its finally given up on trying to reproduce. For the first time since I planted it last autumn it has put out new leaves, instead of flowers. Must make sure I give it a good fertilize this weekend. The tomatoes could also do with a fertilize. The rosemary in the lemon tree pot needs to be cut back. I think this weekend I will cut it right back, some I I will use in a roast, I might freeze a heap and try and strike cuttings from the rest. With me luck with that.

Everything else in the garden is going well, I went for a walk this morning while I watered. Both the normal mint and Vietnamese mint and going overboard, in particular the Vietnamese mint, it needs cutting back too. I suppose I could freeze it too. There are more flowers on the cucumber, and one cucumber ready to eat, must make a Greek salad tonight to go with the quiche. The corn is still growing, but a worry that it is not getting enough water, but there is not much I can do about that. There are lots of watermelons in the watermelon patch. Basil is finally taking off, after the second batch I planted; don’t know what I did wrong. The tomatoes in the bath and doing better than the pots, but the hanging cherry tomatoes, near the back door are also doing really well. It is everyone’s habit to pick one or too as they walk past and have a little snack. Spinach to be eaten might have spinach pasta later this week.

I have just realised that because tomorrow is the 1st after today was the 31st we get two watering days in a row, so I think I will try and fertilize tomorrow morning after they have all had a good drink today.

The camomile in the herb garden has had beautiful flowers for weeks now and are just starting to die off, but the feverfew has come into flower with similar shaped and coloured flowers, the flowers are just a bit bigger.

I picked a heap of cherry tomatoes for breakfast, but realised I don’t have bread for toast, I think there are dried biscuits so I might use those. I love having fresh produce for our meals, I’m really beginning to understand the concepts of eating what is in season.

6 weird things about me

I have been tagged by Carol and have been thinking about it for awhile. When asked Miki said there is nothing weird about me, but I think he might be biased.

1) I never wear a watch, because if I do the battery goes flat in about a week.

2) I like to listen to heavy doom music like Anathema sometimes. But I also listen to classical music, jazz and folk to name a few.

3) I married my first serious boyfriend

Ok this is getting hard now

4) I'm married, but I still live with my mum. Well Ok, she lives with me in a granny flat, but I still think that counts as weird.

5) I don't wear makeup or jewelery (Other than wedding ring).

6) I'm obsessed with "shining my sink", thanks to flylady.


That is six weird things.



I forgot to tag people, so i'm adding it in now. I tag sweetpea

Green Thumb Sunday

Join

I have been very excited to see my corn growing, soon they will be ready to eat

Silver

Join

When I read that Silver was this weeks photo hunt, my first thought was my wedding ring, which I think of as silver, but it is really white gold, so that didn't count. And then I thought of this

But that's not silver I hear you cry, thats wood. She mustn't know anything. But wait a minute let me open it. This box is a very precious gift from my Nana.


See this is my Nana's silver cutlery set. I love this set, and I open it on an inregulary basis just to look and touch. Some of it needs a polish, but these one's don't.


They are very shiny and I love the way the catch the light.

I wish I was brave enough to use it, but I haven't yet. Maybe one day, I will have a proper dinner party and use these, and the special tea set she gave me.

New books

Yesterday I had several appointments and with an hour and a bit between them, somehow I ended up in a secondhand bookshop. I can't imagine how that happened, but luck was with me and I found a couple of very interesting books.

The first was "The country diary of an Edwardian Lady" by Edith Holden. The cover looked really interesting and when I started flicking though it, I realised it really was a diary from 1906. Very quickly I realised how close this was to being a 1906 version of a blog and I just had to buy it.

The first discovery got me excited and I kept digging :lol: and suddenly I found a bible that I had never expected to find. "Esther deans' gardening book: growing without digging"
Ether Dean created the idea of no-dig gardening which I have been using to create my gardens in the baths. The book is amazing and I now have a much better understanding of how to make the gardeners and the science and process behind the steps. For more information on Esther Dean and no-dig gardening try Gardening Australia which is how I originally learned about it.

I was very excited and kept looking. I found two small paperbacks about gardening with Australian Natives. Grow Native: Creating an Australian Bush Garden by Bill Molyneux and The Native Plant expert by John Mason. Grow Native, in particular looked interesting as a book to help me plan and develop the native local garden at the back of my yard. The funny thing was when I visited my mum to show her my purchases I was telling her about the books and my description was "I got a fairly heavy text book type on native plants and gardens." at which point she interrupted with "Bill Molneux, I've got that book." But I guess I needed to buy my own copy, as I flipped through it again I realised it was signed by the author which is pretty cool.
So that I was impulse buys for yesterday, but I have spent a lot of time since scanning, flipping and reading them all.
To all the Australians out there, I hope you have had a good Australia Day.