Catching up......

This packing and organising things is taking some time in between work and family, so I haven't been on as much posting. The garden is starting to bear fruits all over the place. The chillies, and I have a few bushes of them are ready for picking, this lot to the left need a while longer though. The sugar baby watermelons are just about there, I am dying to try one of these as it's the first time I have planted this variety. Don't they look gorgeous! Growing behind it is the amaranth crop, which I won't get to harvest this year, however I have ample seed remaining so will plant out next year at the new house. If you don't know much about amaranth, do a search at the top of the page, it's an amazing and useful grain! Now these are ready if you like them small, I tend to let them get bigger, we are after flavour not the heat in this house, and that is helped again by ensuring you remove the seeds when using them. Chillies also make a great herbal remedy or two, check them out on one of the many herbal blogs if you are interested. Wooohoooooo! I did finally get to harvest one of the loofahs. Now I can set about turning it into a bathroom sponge, instructions to the right hand side for those that may be growing them. I plan on also using the sponges for the kitchen, will be interesting to see how it all goes, ignore the bad photo, somehow I managed to cut half the picture out...sigh Just as food is for the tummy, flowers are for the soul (ok, and the bees). This lipstick pink rose smells heavenly, not like those new ones out, look good and no perfume! They look lovely mixed with the white york rose I have, must be a childhood thing, I always associate home with flowers amongst other good things lol The pineapple guavas are beginning to show their fruits, they seem to take a long time between flowering and fruit setting, and longer to grow! I don't think we will get to try these ones before we leave. The house we have purchased has a massive pear tree, a crabapple (which I know absolutely nothing about), small almond and a couple of others undetermined as yet, so it wont be entirely barren....just almost lol. Well time to finish for the day, no point in having a day off to race around like a headless chook I say! Hope your week is going well Take care of you and yours:)