Bean Burgers

January 17, 2012

This is the second in the Tuesday Night Vego Challenge, and already I’m cheating a little bit. Making this easily within the half hour relies on you having fresh or already cooked beans and bread rolls on hand. I’m starting to harvest beans for shelling now.  By the end of the summer I’ll have a big [...]

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Roots and Perennials Planting in Mid Summer – The Mulberry Trees Go In

January 15, 2012

Remember the mulberry cuttings I took back in late winter? A lot of them failed to take. They grew some lovely healthy looking green leaves but it was a trick – just the cutting drawing moisture up. When I checked, there was no real root development.  But a decent number did take, and back in [...]

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January 14, 2012

My post today is over at Simple Green Frugal Co-op. Love to see you there.

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2 Fruit and 5 Vegetables a Day for Mid Summer

January 12, 2012

We thought it was going to be one of those super bumper years for mangoes, like 2010, when the trees were flowering, but it’s turned into just an average good season. Mangoes  are biennial, and this is the good year, but it has been a bit wet around flowering time to be a huge year. [...]

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Gnocchi With Zucchini and Pesto

January 10, 2012

  I’ve just realised a problem with the Tuesday Night Vego Challenge. Do I post it on Wednesday? After making it on Tuesday? Or do I post it on Monday? For readers to make on Tuesday?  I’ve decided to forgo logic entirely, and just post on Tuesday. I actually usually make things several times to [...]

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Fruiting Planting Days in Mid Summer – Don’t Be Afraid of Shade

January 8, 2012

Remember the luffa seed I planted last month? It came up (a bit surprisingly – the seed was several years old). So today I planted out three seedlings along the left side fence of this bed, where some tomatoes came out. That’s the north-western side, so it will make the bed very shady, but for [...]

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Tomatoes as Themselves

January 5, 2012

This post is just skiting really.  Not a recipe at all, just an excuse to show off. Can you see how proud I am of my tomatoes? Tomatoes go up there with onions and garlic in my kitchen, as staples that I just can’t do without.  Up here in my frost free climate, I can [...]

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The Tuesday Night Vego Challenge

January 3, 2012

I’ve been mulling over a 2012 Challenge. I’ve enjoyed the challenges. The first one -  2010′s Muesli Bar Challenge - was a version of me yelling at the TV originally.  I got so irate about the LCM ads, so indignant about the blatant hypocrisy of an advertising campaign that tried to claim that a cheap concoction of starch [...]

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Leafy Planting Days in Mid-Summer

December 30, 2011

One of the best things about planting advanced seedlings is the head start you get.  I think people tend to forget how long plants spend germinating and as babies. These seedlings are a month old already.  If I’d planted them directly a month ago, this bed would have spent all that time hardly used, just [...]

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