In the Garden at Redgum

21.05.2009 Our first limes of the season will become...

lime marmalade![more]

27.01.2009 Monster Potato

You know how once you've grown potatoes in one spot, they seem to spring up in that same spot forever?[more]

15.01.2009 Stink bugs and instant eradication

Yesterday it reached 44 degrees C here and it was hot enough to drive the stink bugs to the bottom of our citrus trees in search of a cooler place.[more]

18.11.2008 Our olive trees are here and planted

Our olive trees arrived last month so we now have 44 olive trees planted.[more]

30.10.2008 Last night this is what we ate from our garden...

We've been eating broad beans a lot this week.[more]

18.09.2008 Home grown, fresh from the garden parsnips

We've just come into our second crop of parsnips for the season. You really haven't tasted parsnips until you've tasted home grown and fresh from your garden.[more]

20.07.2008 Parsnips from our garden

There's nothing quite like fresh, home grown parsnips.[more]

22.06.2008 Caught in the act - the egg thief

Lately our chooks have been "off the lay" and we put it down to the usual reasons, shorter daylight hours, some of them going through the moulting process combined with colder weather.[more]