Garden

Well this weather is doing wonders for my garden.
We have all been eating from it everyday and it really does have a lot of different vegetables, fruit and herbs.
Grapes

Almonds

Beans

Figs

Apples


Corn

Cos lettues

Carrots

Baby pumpkin

Basil


Tomatoes

Finger eggplant

Yellow zucchini

Rockmellon

I must say I find nothing more relaxing than to sit in the mornings eating my brekkie while looking at the garden. It must be all that green. some people are so afraid of green things these days. We have had peaches coming out of our ears as well from our very old tree in the drive way. so peaches and icecream, peach muffins, peach smoothies and my neighbour has shown me how to preserve them in syrup. so not only will we have peaches in summer but all through winter as well. lol

Little Ma has been making some awesome juices in our Thermomix rocket machine using apples, sugar-beet leaves, carrot top leaves, nasturtium leaves, water-spinach. she just uses a leaf of each which was inspired by a woman on Gardening Australia called Kemi Nekvapil who is British born and passionate about growing and eating fresh raw food.
"The idea of raw food is that you keep food at its freshest and most nutrient dense. The fresher something is the more life it has and you're basically eating life. Once you cook it, you take the life out of it.
This link takes you to the episode she appeared in and what she put in her smoothie including stinging nettle.

ABC Segment

We made Brushetta several times this week with the tomatoes and basil on good italian crusty bread and extra virgin olive oil.

I recommend everyone to grab a couple of packets of seeds and just chuck them in the soil randomly. thats how our garden started and it really does work and is fun to transplant the seedlings when they pop up. And don't pull all the weeds because you can eat some of them as Kemi shows.

Happy gardening
MnM