Pulled garlic today -

The garlic I planted before the last trip to France. Photos soon. Just wanted to note that it came up - hoping to remember what kind it was, after coffee....

Eating broad beans, lettuce, kale. Tomatoes coming on (advanced seedlings in and starting to fruit), raspberries about to go crazy, peas and beans just about ready to pick, zucchini and squash doing nicely (the patty pans are flowering)

Apples and oranges

and paris market carrots and purple dragon carrots and cylindrica baby beets and gourmet delight bush beans and zucchini and mixed heritage radishes and there are jaune flamee tomatoes as well in there somewhere and - oh yes - eggs. And a long green chili. No pattypan squash today, but there will be strawberries later, I think because I'm hoping to re-do the netting a little bit later (if the rain holds off). At the moment, the netting is so cumbersome that I need to send a neighbour-child in under it - and then pay him in strawberries, which is fair but unphotographed.

The oranges surprise me - they've been hanging around since winter, and the tree is flush with new growth, but these are still as sweet as anything (though hard to pick without climbing.)  The apples from the hen's run are gorgeous - but we didn't net them. We will next year. The others from the ballerinas are not quite ripe - we only netted half a dozen of those just to see if they're worth the trouble.

A possum pulled the netted nectarines down. Clearly we need to think this through.

Made up a couple of dozen pitticelle and *gasp* froze them - but we've already tried it with latkes, and we know that if you blast them (frozen) at 240 degrees fan-forced for ten-fifteen minutes, they crisp up very, very well.

The next lot will go into the dehydrator for soup mix.  :)

Canning Day can't be far away...

Remember those Black Russian tomatoes we put in in September?   Brought these in this morning. They should go very well with Paul's bread and some cheese. It was bucketing rain yesterday and is warm and sunny today and everything is going a lit-tle bit insane in the garden. I predict weeding when the earth dries out a little. It's too wet to get out with the basket today, so I'm going to start looking for recipes. Especially zucchini recipes.

Coming on from September

Just made up a bunch of Rosetta Costantino's pitticelle di zucchini. Perfect! Simple and quick and delicious.

So - 14th - 17th

was cold with buckets of rain. Then gorgeous weather, warming, but very high winds. And today it's raining again.

We may have lost all the lawn seeds in the deluge - we'll wait and see.

During the gorgeous patch, I stuck in a couple of oxheart tomato seedlings from the local centre along wiht the eggplants and some zucchini seeds

Bowral Weather

CURRENT CONDITIONS IN BOWRAL, NSW
Current Temp:10.1°C	Humidity: 59%	Pressure:1007.8hPa
Feels like: 7.5°C	Wind Speed: 20kp/h (Gusts: 28kp/h)
Dew Point: 2.5°C	Wind Direction: N/A

Current Observations @ 20/09/2013 8:00:00 AM

FORECASTS
Friday, September 20	6°C - 15°C		Possible shower
Saturday, September 21	5°C - 18°C		Mostly sunny
Sunday, September 22	4°C - 16°C		Possible shower
Monday, September 23	7°C - 20°C		Sunny