Garden and Growing

This Means War!

November 22, 2010

There is a small war being waged out in our garden. It’s me against the snails and slugs. Two weeks ago the Middle Boy and I planted out the seedlings that we’d lovingly coaxed into life on our kitchen window sill. There were zucchini, water melon, rock melon, tomato, beans, basil, dill, cucumber, pumpkin and [...]

Pop Pop Popcorn!

November 8, 2010

Last spring I ordered an odd variety of corn – golf ball corn to be precise. In the Eden Seeds catalogue it says: Beautiful diamond shaped kernels, pops bright white, vigorous plant yielding 3 to 4 cobs each up to 4cm. We planted the seeds, and despite the corn not doing so well (possibly due [...]

Wordless Weed-Day

October 13, 2010

I’m playing Wordless Wednesday at BabbleOn today! Related Posts:Sunday Selections – Swimming with FrogsLovely Links – Garden Pretties…This Year’s Summer Garden

Grand Garden Plans

August 9, 2010

August is fickle. It is definitely still winter here, but August tricks me with it’s sunny days. The sunny days confuse my brain into thinking spring has already come. It makes me want to put on shorts and go outside to dig in the garden. But if I were actually silly enough to break out [...]

Tomatoes in May.

May 17, 2010

It’s gotten cold here. Not quite freeze your toes of when you get up to pee in the middle of the night for tenth time kind of cold… but cold enough to put the fire on every night and to watch the frost glittering in the sunshine on the way to school in the morning. [...]

Just Your Average Day on the Pickle Farm

April 27, 2010

A quiet Sunday morning on a long weekend. The Baldy Boy had just left for an hours bike ride before I handed over the keys to the three external children. I was going to invoke my ‘free pass’, cooking snicker doodles before a child free afternoon of singstar and dinner with friends. The suddenly I [...]

The Story of Dash the Rooster.

March 17, 2010

*** This blog post is about killing and processing our own home grown chicken. There is no graphic images, and I don’t describe the process in detail, but if that is not you thing, that’s ok, I understand, click away now *** In the very early spring of last year Jasmine, our bantam hen, hatched [...]

Here Chook Chook Chook…

March 11, 2010

We have some new residents at the Pickle Farm. Two weekends back I took a deep breath and did a brave thing. I bought four young hens from the farmers market. It might not sound like a very brave thing but since we’ve been loosing chooks to the dreaded chicken plague (aka mereks disease), slowly, [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Printable Christmas Cheer
December 14, 2011

We are in need of a little brightness around here, and some Christmas decorations that Noah can’t pull down and destroy… Click on any of the above images to download an A4 (letter sized) printable poster to add some Christmas cheer. Or shrink them down and print them onto cards and share the joy. Check [...]

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2011 Christmas Printable Series – Print and Fold Gift Boxes.
December 12, 2011

I think I am done with my Christmas shopping…. hopefully… maybe. We still have a few hand made gifts to finish off but I don’t think I need to go near another shopping centre (well except for food) till after Christmas. So now that the gift are all organised I need to wrap them. This [...]

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2011 Christmas Printable Series – Jar Labels and a Strawberry Jam Recipe.
December 5, 2011

Lots of rain + some sunshine = bucket loads of strawberries! Over the past few weeks we have had strawberries coming out of our ears. We have made muffins, and smoothies and cupcakes, and pie and we’ve eaten so many fresh strawberries I am actually kinda over them (I never thought that would happen), but [...]

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