update vege patch with views in the corn showing my it might make a good kids hiding place.

Really glad you are having a good season in your garden pepe.

Lovely photos

ramshackle chook shadehouse – but they like it and it hasn’t blown away yet.

greenery – lebanese cucumber, kale and cabbage, nz spinach

Lucky1 said:

Really glad you are having a good season in your garden pepe.

Lovely photos

thanks L1 – all seed planted on december 1st – soil kept damp the whole time.
i have proved that i can grow a late summer crop here.
the corn has grown 60cm higher in the last week.

Well I am just thrilled to see your garden looking so FAB TAB.

Lucky1 said:

Well I am just thrilled to see your garden looking so FAB TAB.

Elsewhere is just survival.
Out the front only the hedge has survived the rest is pretty dead. The tough fruit trees – fig, mulberry, bay, quince get watered on sunday as do the toms but the toms look sick. The citrus is being kept alive and so is the pool garden.
Anything apart from the ‘structural’ plants and the edible veges aren’t getting enuff H2O.
Lavendar,rosemary and herbs are ok.

Pepe your vegies look stunning. The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye………………and how green can you get? Lovely.

Here’s a pic of my kale Pepe. it’s Scotch Kale, and when I was a kid in the UK we called it curly Kale.
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u218/Javlon_album/back%20garden%202008/th_Kale.jpg

Here’s a pic of my kale Pepe. it’s Scotch Kale, and when I was a kid in the UK we called it curly Kale.
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its quite different to mine OC.
it looks more like lettuce.
how do you cook it ? – is it still a cabbage/spinach substitute?

pepper said:

Here’s a pic of my kale Pepe. it’s Scotch Kale, and when I was a kid in the UK we called it curly Kale.
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its quite different to mine OC.
it looks more like lettuce.
how do you cook it ? – is it still a cabbage/spinach substitute?

I just cook it like Silverbeet or Spinach etc, with a tiny drop of water in the saucepan. I grew Black Kale once and didn’t like that at all but this one is more tender and has a milder flavour. It’s pretty too !

I grew Black Kale once and didn’t like that at all but this one is more tender and has a milder flavour. It’s pretty too !
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kale does look ornamental – that colour combination of purple and green is pleasant and the curly leaves look more like flowers than veges.

mesclun (lettuce), cucmber and ms peppers homemade pesto (using roasted almonds) and tonights meal with feta triangles)

Yum!!!

like the rooster plate…

oh, and the food looks good too :D

a couple of observations

1. the native grasses in the paddock are attracting a group of twenty grass parrots to our place. driving around our suburb i notice our paddock has a few patches of green grass that the others have not – no livestock on our place is probably the reason. (also noticed a cat sitting and watching the parrots – not sure whos cat)

2. ms P picked up a rubbish bag full of fast food wrappers on our road frontage. so i guess we are exactly the distance from maccas required to eat their meals. i put my rubbish inside my car and can’t quite fathom what people are thinking as they chuck theirs out the window ? do they think its more important to keep their car clean ?

2. ms P picked up a rubbish bag full of fast food wrappers on our road frontage. so i guess we are exactly the distance from maccas required to eat their meals. i put my rubbish inside my car and can’t quite fathom what people are thinking as they chuck theirs out the window ? do they think its more important to keep their car clean ?
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We lived in 2 places where walking the people finished their junk food feed, right in the front of our place. Not so much of that where we live now.