After the rain
some minor repairs were needed and a few things didn't survive, most noticeably the recently planted new
Tamarillo
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| Tamarillo seedling went toes up |
but our wonderful neighbour Chantel provided us with another, we planted this one up on a large mound in the sweet potato patch to help keep it's roots a little drier. The orchard area can get a little damp with lots of water, which we had ! Thank you so much to our wonderful neighbour
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| Tamarillio redux. ! |
Some of the plants of course LOVED the wet, the Orange Jasmine went mad with flowers and it's wonderful perfume wafts through the house
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| Orange Jasmine |
when life give you limes, you make lime cordial
The lime tree has gone into overdrive, producing a huge quantity of fruit, we have sold some and made Lime cordial, with the recipe sourced from Sally Wise's book
Life in a Bottle with others but we have way too many. It's a little sweet for us but previous attempts to make it less sweet (sorry for messing with the recipe Sally !) by using less sugar, ended in the disaster of fermenting cordial ! So we just squeeze more fresh lime juice in, to tone the sweetness down.
We also use them often just cut in 1/2 and squeezed into some cold glass of water. This was a favourite drink of ours whilst in Cambodia last year.
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| Sally Wise's book "Life in a Bottle" + excess Limes = Lime cordial ! |
Garden
the garden is on the go
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| Corn coming along |
and the chickens are on the grow
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| Male = meat, female = eggs |
