Spring has made a
huge difference in the garden.
Everything has grown
quickly and vigorously.
Of course that means
bugs are everywhere!
All the trees are
flowering and are buzzing alive with bees. The birds are busy building their
new nests right next to our bedroom window.
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| Beautiful birds |
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| Beautiful nest |
This poor little
fellow unfortunately didn't make it. Brought down from his nest with the wind;
we tried to rescue it. The parents were feeding it for three days but mother
nature had a different idea.
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| Poor little bird... |
The vegetables, snow
peas, bok choy, radishes, beans, spring onions, silver beets, lettuces, have to
be picked every night and end up on the dinner table.
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| Harvest for one night |
Tomatoes galore!
Fresh, plump and juicy! Until you taste a freshly picked tomato you don't know
the real flavour.
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| Green tomatoes |
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| Ripe tomatoes |
Raw, cooked,
stuffed, sauces….We even eat them like apples during the day. Glorious
tomatoes!
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| Cold stuffed tomatoes... |
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| Hot stuffed tomatoes... |
The strawberries...
we eat them as we pick, sweet and juicy!
The flowers have
also appeared everywhere. Some we didn't know we had in the garden!
The curlews have
also come back in our grounds for an intermittent feed of scrap and like it so
much, that I think they're thinking of nesting there. That would be something!
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| Waiting to be fed |
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| Testing for a nest??? |
After the occasional
rainy days we had lately, everything is green again. The cassava cuttings I
planted are looking very promising and so are the banana trees we planted. The
new choko vines are rapidly climbing in the trees and we hope they'll bear as much
fruits as when we first arrived.
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| Everything'sso green! |
Next season's
persimmons, oranges, mandarins, cumquats and avocadoes are getting bigger and
the macadamia nut tree is now full of baby nuts. Yum… Can't wait until
February/March!
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| Persimmons |
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| Macadamia nuts |
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| Avocado |
Another project for
the future is to build a gazebo right at the top corner, near the fence. We
would then get an uninterrupted view of the lake, mountains and fields...
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| View from the proposed gazebo |
How can we be so
lucky to live in such a paradise?
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