The bathroom renos are underway, everything has been ripped out, floor sorted, new shower unit put in, now I am waiting for the flooring ppl to come put the floor covering down. Hubby has to complete the walling where the old shower was removed, then the plumbers back to put in the pedestal handbasin and the loo..........only then can I get the cabinet maker in to put in a room length vanity unit....after that the painter!
To top it all off, with all these tradeys running around we have had roof leaks that we haven't had before. Upon getting a few to check we have had each of them say the same thing, the old cement tiles have had it, as has all the cement etc up there............there goes $19,000.00!
On the bright side, by the time I retire there will be nothing left to do on the house and I can sit back and relax a little LOL
The heat here is just horrid. Friday they are forecasting 44C.....ugh!! Thankfully I am on long service leave that day, you can bet it's garden at 5am and hibernation from 9am onwards!
The yellow cherry guavas have got the most enormous crops on them, if you haven't tried them, buy a plant, they don't mind light frosts and are very drought hardy........and the taste is delicious:)My mango finally bit the dust. That horrendous run of 19 frosts last winter was just too much, no matter how much I nursed it it did not help. I will try another though, only this time in winter the shadecloth will come out!
The white sapote is going crazy, the black ones are doing it a little tough, will be interesting to see how they all end up.
The variety of berries are slowly taking off, there is a mix of boysenberries, youngberries, elderberries, silvanberries etc, they will eventually cover the fence on one side of the property.
We are training these over one side of the shed, not only will it look lovely it will cool the shed too.
Five red panama passionfruit are beginning to trail across the fenceline on the other side of the yard, this will not only provide us with a little more privacy (not that I mind really, we have a lovely couple next door) but will also provide more shade to the garden bed.........and in this heat you can bet it's needed lol.
The four grapevines are also putting on a display of grapes, albeit a limited crop as they are only a couple of years old. The birds have already found them of course, I am trying to decide if I should bag or net........any thoughts?
The strawberries were burning so badly that I have had to cover them with shadecloth, this of course has reduced the fruiting to some degree, however, given they are only new plants I would rather they grow and send out runners (which they are doing) for next year, by then we will have a permanent, lighter shade cover over that area.
I am hoping to get some amaranth in this weekend, I just love that grain, especially toasted (it pops like corn only the grain is miniscule), leaves a soft nutty taste, try it over your salads.....scrumptious, brilliant in almost any dish you can think of!
Well, that's it from me tonight, age must be creeping up, 10pm and I am ready for bed and a book lol.
Take care of you and yours:)
4 Responses:
I love your blue.
Your place sounds like a right little fruit bowl, very nice. Mind you, you can keep your 44C.
Your smart, heading off to bed at a respectable hour, I'm hanging for grim death until 1.00am and then wonder why I feel like I've been hit by a truck when I wake up in the morning.
Thanks Nev, change is as good as a holiday they say, the blog needed a revamp:)
I have about 40 fruit trees/berries mix, nothing better than fruit picked fresh from our own backyards.
I can't remember the last time I stayed up past midnight, come 10pm I am ready for bed, or like you I feel like a truck has hit me if I go later .....must be the old age thingy creeping up lol
Love the interesting variety of fruit you are growing. A friend just recently gave me a try of a fruit I have never eaten before called 'pepino'. It had a texture like a melon and tasted like a cross between a melon and passion fruit. Yum! She also gave me a couple of clippings as it happily grows here in South Australia, so I look forward to my own.
Hi Jason. We grow pepinos too, hubby loves them, the rest of us hate them lol. Shame you dont live closer, I could give you at least 3 plants, would still leave another 2 for the hubby!
The one thing I have noticed with them is that they take quite a while to ripen, at least here.
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