Messing with the natural order of the Universe

Well in my last blog post I was wishing for Spring, and for a few glorious days it looked like I got my wish, so much so that I was a bit worried that I had messed with the natural order of things!  The sun was shining, it was warm enough to brunch outside without a coat and one of my roses is flowering, whoops, hang on, I’m not that ready for Spring after all!  It’s OK though the big duvet was back on the bed last night and it is back to being rather chilly, still got some beautiful blue skies though.

Hurry up Spring – Recovering from the wild weather

I miss lettuce. I’ve spoilt myself for supermarket lettuce, I bought a couple of bags after it got too cold to grow in the garden and didn’t like it, it just smelled weird. The broccoli has been fantastic but I miss lettuce in my sandwiches and summer salads … hurry up Spring!!

Monster broccoli, my pride and joy!

Pinterest Sunday - Mason Jars, sofa & duvet and Cushions for Katie

Pinterest Sunday is a very close relation to Lazy Sunday and Hungover Sunday.  All three Sunday varieties start the same way with me looking out of the window and thinking 'hell no, I am not going out there'!  

far too rainy to think about gardening

A pumpkin hunting holiday

I’m a bit late with my blog post for this week, I’ve been on holiday, hooray for me … a two day week at work is just the way it should be!  However, I haven’t been slacking, I’ve been hunting pumpkins!  Please excuse the grey photos, it was a rather grey rainy day!

Peirce Orchard - Central Otago

Glorious Garlic - definitely no vampires round here

It finally stopped raining! FINALLY!  I was afraid that I was going to miss my date for planting out the garlic.  

I put garlic in nearly everything, I love it.  I reckon it goes in about 80% of my evening meals.  My favourite meals all have garlic in there somewhere!  I planted some last year and was only moderately successful, it looked like garlic and tasted like garlic but in miniature.  It was about half the size that it should have been.  I think it may have been because I planted it a bit too late, or perhaps because our spring/summer was so dry this year and they didn't get quite enough water to plump out?