Category Archives: Gardening

Zucchini Madness

  Every Spring I forget about zucchini-I look at the tiny innocent looking plants that my Mum gives me or that I plant in a peat pot or that I purchase at the nursery and I think- I’ll plant two … Continue reading

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Proud Mama of a new Peach Tree

We had an old peach tree in our garden-I don’t know what variety-it must have been decades old. It had the most delicious free-stone peaches ever. I think the poor tree died from old age. It gave out gradually so that at the end … Continue reading

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Take advantage of the heat- Roast up!

  You know how it’s Summertime and the living is easy extremely hot but you still go on baking and heating your house so much the the windows steam? Well at least take advantage of that heat and double up in your … Continue reading

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The glory of Mother Nature in June

This post is mostly just to record the beauty of Mother Nature in June- I hope to look back at the pictures when the Winter months inevitably come or even in the hotter months ahead when all of the blossoms … Continue reading

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