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| Carrot Harvest |
On Saturday, daughter and I took a walk in the garden and she pulled up the rest of the carrots we grew. It's not a lot, but, we are very pleased with them. I will add the carrots to a stir fry I am planning to make and the leaves will be cut up finely and made into a mallung with grated coconut, turmeric, and other spices.
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| More Amaryllis |
The second stem of amaryllis has started to bloom. I am hoping that the amaryllis bulb will form new bulbs and I'll have a clump of amaryllis growing in the garden.
When M was here on Friday, he started clearing the area behind the shed and removed over half of the plumbago hedge that was growing along the wall:
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| The Cleared Area |
We have big plans for this area, so watch this space!
Word seems to have spread among the garden birds that the blueberries are ripening:
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| Birds Perched On Wire Near the Blueberry Bushes |
This pair of birds (not a good photo at all, since I took it from inside the house) were inspecting the blueberry bushes (not seen in the picture - the tree in the picture is one of the lemon trees). I think they might be finches; the male bird (perched lower on the wire) had a red throat.
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| Blueberry Pancakes with Bacon and Syrup |
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| Avocado Pudding |
- Garden produce
- Working appliances
I look forward to seeing what you are doing in the cleared area. I have an amaryllis bulb that has been dormant for over a year that just started to put out leaves. It's too cold here to grow them outside like your beautiful red ones.
ReplyDeleteWe should have the area cleared in another week or so and then you'll see what will be going there. :)
DeleteI hope your amaryllis will bloom this year, June.
I love blueberry pancakes!
ReplyDeleteThey are quite tasty, aren't they? :)
DeleteI love how the amaryllis and nasturtiums complement each other with their bright colours. The pancakes look yummy, and I never thought of using the carrot tops to eat, although I have eaten beet tops which are delicious. I can see I need to branch out more. I know in many countries, greens from some root vegetables are staples, and delicious when cooked in the right way.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bushlady. The stonery is looking very colorful, right now and I love it. :)
DeleteYes, we often tend to grow vegetables for a certain part of the plant and tend to ignore the rest of the plant, don't we? But, most of the time, other parts of the plant are edible, too.
So many lovely things from your garden. I've heard of others having success with avocados. I hope you do too!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Hannah Jane. I've sprouted avocado seeds before and I have a little avocado tree in the garden that I grew from a seed. It hasn't produced any avocados, yet (and might never do so), but, that doesn't matter. It can just be another tree in the garden. :)
DeleteBeautiful harvest from the garden. The carrot photo looks really lovely, very appealing .
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sharon. I am happy to have vegetables from the garden. :)
DeleteThe pancakes look delicious, and what a great use of your blueberries!
ReplyDeleteI found one of last year's remaining carrots when I did a bit of gardening, at the weekend. Xx
Thank you, Jules. A handful of blueberries go a long way when added to pancake or muffin batter! :D
DeleteYay! An unexpected bonus from your garden! I wonder what you will plant in your garden, this year?
Lovely photos of the carrots, flowers and birds. Your blueberry pancakes look fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda. The garden is coming along nicely, this year.
DeleteThat's a pretty good carrot harvest. I watch a few frugal blogs in the UK and they get really really super low prices on vegetables around the Christmas and Easter holidays. Carrots, potatoes, parsnips, brussells sprouts, things like that. For 5 pence to 15 pence a bag. So really good prices. This one lady puts them in a burlap bag with leaves from her yard and stores them for months in her cool garage. Most of the vegetables do just fine. She doesn't have any trouble with little animals coming in for a nibble which would be my worry. Anyway, I saw your carrots and thought of that.
ReplyDeleteI'm envious of those prices that's for sure.
M did a good job cleaning out that area. I'm assuming it's for the chickens? How nice that will be for you to have your own eggs.
That's a nice garden wall :)
Thank you, Debra. We tried growing carrots the year before and we didn't have much of a harvest when it came to the carrots, themselves; just the leaves! So we were very pleased with this year's harvest. Yes, I've seen the super low prices on vegetables in the UK around Christmas and Easter.
ReplyDeleteYes, that's the area we are planning for the chicken coop and enclosure. They'll have access to the rest of the garden, too, but, the coop will go back there. We are hopeful that there will be eggs to look forward to. :)
Thank you!