Just sometimes when I really think about all the time, and hard work, and effort that I put into my vegetable garden, I sometimes get a little discouraged by the sheer lack of edible results.
Things die on me all the time, the fruit trees are mostly new and I am impatient, I plant the wrong things for the climate and I plant the right things but at the wrong time... Feeling a bit hopeless about it all doesn't happen very often, because just like a holiday I like vegetable gardening for the journey, not solely the destination... but sometimes, just sometimes, I think it's really nice to arrive.
And today, I kind of feel like we made it out of the airport and had a bit of a look around.
For dinner we had barbecued chicken, eggplant and capsicum. All from the garden. Apart from the chicken which came from the butcher. The green paw paw was going to be part of a salad but it tasted awful so I gave it to the chickens.
And the bananas are in there because I might just try to work them into every photo I can until we actually eat them.
Finally, a "today's harvest" photo.
18 comments:
And what a beautiful photo it is on that red table. I hope it was as delish as it looks. Well done, Little Ali! Grandma is proud of you!
I am wonderfully jealous! Great work!
Yay!
urk!!!! tell me when the yummy stuff is ready! why is it so much easier to grow the yucky stuff that nobody wants to eat? does this mean you're growing choco's as well? double urk ... gag... urk... gag
Great stuff Ali; Rome wasn't built in a day you know. As you get more experienced with gardening you discover what works and what doesn't, and what the conditions in your garden are best suited for. What I would like to know is how you got from marble-sized capsicums yesterday to great big ones today... You must have used some of Hazel's patent plant tonic! :)
I think you probably picked the paw-paw a bit prematurely. Even to eat one green it needs to be reasonably mature.
Thank you nanna! Lol, Hazel you are way too young and way too cheeky to be anyone's nanna yet :p
Phoebe and Veggie, thank you :)
And Tess you are not getting any veggies on your plate at brunch this weekend!
Hi Mark, I was wondering what people might say about the capsicums! In my mind there is a sharp divide between seedlings I've planted and seeds I've sown, and am only really proud of vegetables I've grown from seed. Seedlings are cheating. So yes, these capsicums are much bigger, but they were seedlings.
Does any of that make sense?
And yes, WAY too premature for the paw paw, I think I knew that when I knocked it off the plant, but I really wanted to stretch out the harvest!
Beautiful "today's harvest" photo! I will definitely try growing eggplants this year.
Your eggplant look marvelous and shiny. I think I'd be disappointed not to see bananas in the background of every picture from now on! ;)
Eating ones own homegrown veggies is such a fantastic thing...Bravo! I hope you're keeping a garden diary...that way each season you'll know what worked and what didn't and perhaps why!
Yummy!!
Onya Ali! Nothing beats a harvest. Food you've grown always tastes the best. The eggplants look fantastic.
Oh Missy, the eggplants were yum o! I sliced them up thickly and barbecued it, it's my favourite way of preparing eggplant.
Theanne I guess that the blog is my diary in a way, although I do like the way that some people have a tally for the year on theirs. Maybe I'll start up a tally when my produce is really overproducing!
Kat, I will now attempt to work in that bunch of bananas until they are ripe, my own personal challenge!
And Vrtlarica, I think eggplants are fabulous and can't get enough of them. I need to plant MORE!
Lovely harvest! I agree about the eggplant, quite the nicest vegetable to grow and eat! Once those pawpaws get a bit bigger you will really enjoy their flavour in salads.
Oh that's good about the paw paw AA, this one really was teeny tiny, I am not sure what I was thinking! Too curious I suppose :)
Oh my goodness, I am in awe, and as jealous as can be! It's a good day here in Chch when I get tomatoes and zucchinis for a basic salad. Your garden is amazing!
Great stuff Ali! You should be proud - be patient - you're doing well!
Aww thank you art mamma and Wendy, it really was all very tasty, and I was so proud to be serving up home grown food :)
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