Our lemon crop as juice
Well, wasn’t much this year. Let’s see whether next year’s crop will be a bit more plentiful. 🙂
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Well, wasn’t much this year. Let’s see whether next year’s crop will be a bit more plentiful. 🙂
Well, with the last moving around of our wooden planter boxes, one of them needed a bit of stitching back together. So we decided to look for getting new ones, but in the end, didn’t really want to spend $150…
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With spring just around the corner, it was high time to get things started in the garden. We haven’t yet decided how we want to organize the garden, so Jody found plans for a vertical herb garden online. Had to…
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Yesterday, we harvested our first mandarin. The only upside of the cold weather is that citrus fruits start ripening. Up here in Hamilton, we’ve been lucky. Neither snow like on the South Island (60cm in one day in some places),…
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This has been a crazy strawberry season! Not only did it start already early in October, no, we also had so many of them that we collected them and gave them away at work. Oh, and did I tell you…
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Question: what happens, if you miss harvesting a courgette in perfect growing conditions for too long? Answer: this! PS This is a 30cm ruler and regular sized courgettes for comparison.
During the week, we managed to put all the remaining boards on that make up the sides of the vegebox. Thanks to the weather forecast looking good, I bought some more wood on Saturday to continue with the next stage…
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The weather was a bit dodgy on Monday night (only managed to quickly mow the lawns), so we had to postpone further work on our vege box. Despite the weather forecast predicting rain today, it turned out to be quite…
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It’s been long in the planning, but finally got around to: a vege box! We bought some timber to match the existing vege box yesterday (better not ask how we transported them back to our house…) and I started setting…
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