Doing: .... Armed with a tin of Bliss Balls, I toddled off with the girls to meet up with local simple-living gals, Nicola and Tricia today. Hi Ladies!
It was a gorgeous day and the kids all had a blast at the park. Given that most of my real-life friends aren't into living simply at all, I can't tell you how nice it was to chat to some like-minded souls for a change. Thanks girls :-)
As a parting gift, Tricia bestowed upon each of us, a jar of honey collected by her apiarist Dad: doesn't the sunny glow of that untreated honey look divine? Yum.
She also kindly offered us a few of the bags of spent mushroom compost her hubby bought yesterday from a mushroom farm - look at all those little button lovlies just bursting out of the compost:
Will be interesting to see how many mushies we get from the bags, but for $2 a bag, we can't really go wrong.
Making:... Bliss Balls
In The Garden: ... Watering the seedlings I potted on and planted out yesterday. And trying to work out where the heck I'm going to plant all the rest of the leafy greens I have in seedling trays. (Lets not discuss the brassica space-crisis).
... Mmm, raspberries. Only a few, but enough for a lovely little mouthful of sweet raspberry goodness every day as I water my seedlings. I'm definitely making room for more raspberry canes this winter.
...Look, look! More luffa flowers. I counted four female flowers amongst them this time, with their characteristic tiny luffa-to-be at the base. There were 7 or 8 male flowers also so I'm hoping these will all be pollinated and I might actually get a few luffas after all.
Dinner:... Battered local fish fillets, chips and a giant Greek salad.
Listening to: ... Busy Woman's Radio National interview she did yesterday.
Contemplating: ... The stack of onion seedlings I still have to plant out... and Sunday and Monday are good moon planting days for root crops apparently. Must find those packets of carrots seeds too :-)
11 comments:
Pssst... if you need more raspberry canes, let us know. :)
Hi :c) I randomly came across your blog and now follow it. Nice to meet you!
What's a luffa?
hehe
It was a lovely morning thanks Julie :-)
Your such an efficient blogger! I have been meaning to post a pic of my Dads honey for days - and I have been equally slow posting re the murshroom compost.
Little Eco was so tired after her exciting morning she slept for hours giving me plenty of gardening time. I found out that our backyard blue tongue has either had a baby - or shrunk considerably :-)
Looking forward to another catch-up. Its nice to know i'm not the only person I know 'in real life' obsessed with sustainaility :-)
Cheers,
Tricia
I really should proof read my comments prior to posting. So many typos! Oops!
I pulled my luffas out because I have no patience, i thought it was too late for them to flower. Good on you for having patience.
Hey, great idea about meeting up with the other ladies - how did you manage to meet them in the first place?
Cheers
Veg! I will email you, you little champion veggie-grower you ;-)
Hi Pheenix,
Hello! Nice to 'meet' you too :-) Luffas are also known as loofahs - they are often sold as natural skin exfoliators. They are actually the inside of a plant when it is all dried out, and make great kitchen dish scrubbers etc.
Hi Tricia,
I'm not surprised Little Eco slept so long! My girls wore her out I think ;-) Good news on the baby Blue Tongue!
Hi Deb,
I reckon I would have pulled them out too, had I needed the space for something else, so I was amazed to see them finally flowering! Fingers crossed for some actual luffas now.
Hi Trina,
The other two ladies came across my blog, noticed I was a local and emailed me :-)
Cheers, Julie
Sounds like a lovely get-together :)
I owe you an email, but given that my eyes are blurry with tiredness, I'd best do it tomorrow!
Myummie! All of your pictures look so delicious: honey, mushrooms, raspberry. I actually discovered raspberries in my garden too! I'm so excited, hope I'll have the delicious fruit out of my own garden by the end of the summer...
Hi Julie
I´ve been a silent reader for some time now. Love your blog. Makes me nostalgic for the 13 years I lived in Sydney before arriving in Sweden.
I´m really envious of your mushroom compost!. Have relatives who have built up an exhibition garden estate in the UK. I thought they would be using lots of compost to achieve the wonderful plant growth. But no, never compost because of the danger of weeds. They always use spent mushroom compost. It doesn´t give much in the way of nourishment to the plants but is apparently unsurpassed for improving the structure of the soil. I managed to ferret out a source here. Sadly the couple couldn´t make ends meet with their mushroom farm. I´m still looking....
Cheers
Ramona K
Uppsala, Sweden
I had to laugh at the "brassica space-crisis." We're in early spring here, so there was loads of room for the brassicas we planted out tonight. BUT I'm going to have a "tomato/pepper/squash" crisis in a few weeks!
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