SIMPLE LIVING SUNDAY: In the garden
I’ve come back home after a short holiday
interstate. Spring has certainly sprung,
though some of the flowers look a little the worse for wear after a couple of very
windy days.
Two of my
friends have come back with me, just for a few days. One of my friends is good
at gardening and cooking and loves to be kept busy. He doesn’t like to sit
around relaxing for too long, which has largely been to my benefit.
With his help this is a sample of what has been achieved: |
| Coconut buns in coconut cream sauce |
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| Using up vegies, quiche from scratch |
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| Tomatoes and capsicum |
I’ve been trying this vegie garden caper for a couple of years now. Previously I had a low maintenance native garden. Now I have a smaller cottage garden out front and a vegetable patch and small garden areas out the back. If my friend hadn’t helped me then the vegie patch would still be small and sparse. I’m sure it wouldn’t have extended beyond a few carrots and broccoli. I have read a lot on the internet and watched lots of programs about gardening but I still found it difficult to know what to do. For example, when I first planted the carrots I didn’t know whether I was supposed to separate the bunch of fine stems and plant singly or whether one plant was meant to have several stem-like parts.
Getting a helping hand has made a big difference.
And a hoe! I still don’t know many things but simply watching my friend dig up
the soil has taught me a lot, including the fact that I could do that much on
my own, if I had a hoe. I didn’t realise
how much easier the job is with a hoe! (No shovel, either…)
Have a happy Sunday.
