Showing posts with label mulberry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mulberry. Show all posts

Sunday, April 4, 2010

TWIG-22

 Ahhhhh at last I've had a few moments to get stuck into those jobs crying out for attention - and to enjoy the delights of the autumn garden (my favourite time of year around here....the mornings are crispy, but not cold.... the days a warm but not hot and humid... the wind is gentle..... beautiful!)

 this was supposed to be a white dahlia....
ooops someone got the labelling wrong!
I'll move it out of the white bed at the end of the season


we've harvested the HUGE crop of pumpkins and squashes...


  (this is just a small sample of the hubbard and blue banana and etc. squash sitting on the back verandah right now)

To my great delight our black mulberry tree decided to set another round of fruit.... and are they ever beauties!



and at last I've knocked some jobs off my 'to do list' (wheeeee)

TO DO

* order bare root fruit and nut trees
* take cuttings of hydrangea and woody herbs
*plant out decorative garden bed below the house


Completed

Autumn seeds planted: Ruby silverbeet, italian brocolli, red cabbage, late season carrot, hollow crwon parsnip, masey pea, oregon snow pea, italian white garlic, purple garlic, snowball cauliflower

old bath moved (at last!) and filled with water ready for the water plants (water chesnuts, water cress and more)

we've carpeted the path area in the vege garden (its true! we covered the ground in some old carpet we received - and we'll cover this with sand in the next while.... the carpet will keep the weeds down for a long time, before it eventually decays)


  camellia sasanqua - 'fuji-no-mine'... 
these are just starting to flower - the trees are wonderful when covered in white blooms



 blushing pink iceberg rose (its a lovely frothy mass right now....stunning!)
 
 
Picking/ eating
endive,  ivory eggplant, thai eggplant, pontiac potatoes, cherokee wax beans,  pak choy, green capsicum, sweet basil, roma tomato,  dried bortolli bean, black mulberries, white mulberries, watermelon, rockmelon, raspberries

Friday, August 21, 2009

spring?

Its not spring until next week - but tell that to the trees...




the apricot began its blossom run a few weeks ago (and with it - so began the aphid invasion.... grrrrrrrrrr)



The white (or 'king shahtoot') mulberry (Morus macroura) is not far behind - the leaf bud is about to unfurl and with it will come the fruit.

But before I can gobble into their super sweet long fruits its neighbour the Black mulberry ( M. nigra) will be ready - look its already got fruit on the go...




YUM!

all this reminds me - I haven't pruned the trees yet - eeeeek! this happens every year...

note to self - DO THE PRUNING IN JULY...

Monday, December 29, 2008

back online...

Well as anticipated – it is taking some time to get fully back up online after the lightning strike wiped out my modem and computer at the end of November – I' m still not all together yet - although I’ve got an operational modem, I’m working on a borrowed computer…

In the time I’ve been offline the garden has EXPLODED into full production!



All the beds are full – and we’ve been eating from the patch since early November


Fruits are ripening in the orchard (yum!)




Ohhhh and look what Santa gave me for Christmas….