Garden Updates – Covid Crazy

Well there is nothing like a lock down, as we all now know, to re spark up the sleeping projects.

So whilst it has been over two years since the last veg patch blog update, I have continually shared news and inspiration from the garden on my instagram page, same name! Check it out.

The funny thing that happened over on instagram was a rediscovery of my photography passion and I’m now living my dream of being a travel photographer – albeit the travel is around my garden, trips to the foreshore and the other odd trip here and there.

Now, due to the Covid restrictions, my travel is pretty much just around the garden. This also means that the garden is getting a lot more attention and I even have time to water the veg patch every day, which makes a big difference to its wellbeing.

The big news is that over the last two years we have done a bit of a reno on the house and rejigged the garden. I am so happy to restart this blog to share some of the beauty and peacefulness of my garden, as well as the veg patch exploits. So happy to share it all, photographs included.

Thanks so much for reading this, don’t forget to give it a like, and I’ll try to keep writing something often xx

Scene from the garden

October – a very seedy time

 

October Seeds

Whilst concentrating on getting the vegie garden happening, the garden at large has been growing and producing. I have cut several bunches of gorgeous flowers from the garden to brighten up and smell beautiful in the house: delicate pink and white flowers in July – August, purple and white flowers in August – October.

Acacia

Black Kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus)

The flowering gum,

Spotted gum (Eucalyptus maculata), and the

Paperbark (Malaleuca delbata?), have also flowered.

The Leopard tree (Caesalpinnea ferreahas – native to Brazil) been amazing and has produced hundreds of seeds. Not sure if it flowered? It smells amazing, like a lemon tang.

Jobs – find names of the trees in the garden

Love Is A Loaded Passion Fruit Vine

Love Is A Loaded Passion Fruit Vine

I love my loaded Passion fruit vine during February. Passion fruit thrive in the subtropics and almost anywhere that is not frost affected. Our vine, is 4 years old now and produces the purple fruit, Passiflora edulis. It was planted to grow on the boundary fence, but amazingly it has grown over the safety net around the trampoline. The effect is magnificent, and is a very good use of the vertical space created by the net. The result is a bouncy, leafy bower, complete with dangling sweet treats.

Packed with Vitamin C and iron, the delicious healthy balance between acidity and sweetness lends itself to complement many deserts and ice creams, though most of ours are eaten straight off the vine. I will give away and process much of the fruit in the coming weeks as the crop quickly ripens. It is wonderful to pull out frozen Passion fruit pulp mid-winter for a treat.

Fun fact – a Passion fruit is actually a berry, and within each berry is typically 250 seeds.

Endless Passion fruit is sweet compensation for the lack of leafy greens from the garden at the height of summer, but for now the laden Passion fruit vine is ripening at the rate of 2 or 3 Passion fruit per day – one for me, one for you and one for the freezer, perfect!