vegetables – The Red Wren

Summer Fruit and Vegetables

It’s been a hot summer in Melbourne, an odd summer really. There hasn’t been much middle ground. It’s either really hot, or back into the mid-20’s. Until this week there’d been very little rain. ...

Our Home

Flowers and tomatoes.

Spent a little bit of time cleaning up the front garden today. It still needs a lot of work, but it’s starting to shape up into a garden rather than a lawn! This year I wanted to have a fabulous ...

Gardening, Our Home

Hot days…

are good for and

Gardening, Life and Outings, Our Home

In the garden

If you’re in Melbourne you’ll already know that today has been just beautiful! (Election results aside!) I spent a great deal of it out in the garden doing some long needed trimming and planting. ...

Gardening

Herronswood

I’m currently enjoying a nice week off work. I’ve done a bit of crochet (more about that later), stocked up on some flannels to make a baby quilt, done some pottering in the garden and visited ...

Gardening

Happy Valentine’s and Tomatoes

I noticed while harvesting the tomatoes that they look like little hearts! A few weeks ago I showed you the tomatoberries! Well – there’s piles of the now. The blue container is ...

Gardening

Tomatoes

I planted a ‘tomatoberry’ tomato this year, named for the small strawberry shaped tomatoes. It’s been a real success, every morning I’m bringing in a handful of tomatoes ...

Gardening

Seedlings!

Wow- I am so many posts behind after having such a frantic December. We planted seeds a few months ago and for nearly two months – nothing happened! After a good soak in the December rains, ...

Gardening

The Harvest

We harvested some veggies last weekend. Carrots, potatoes and leeks! We also got the dirt for our new veggie patches and planted some things. The one below is the herb bed. The parsley has been ...