You would be forgiven for thinking that I had dropped off the screen of the blogaverse for all the non posting I have been doing lately, but I assure you, I am still around. It's been raining which is wonderful, but water bucketing down from the sky is fairly non conducive to taking the camera outside. Very good for filling the tank up though, and I now have 3000 fabulous liquid gold litres to play with.
Apart from the rain, we have just been busy. And I haven't felt like taking photographs. I have felt like sewing and planting and buying new couches, and, as it happens, plush elephants.
This elephant was such a hit that he earned a place at the dinner table this evening, and apparently tonight I am sewing him a new jacket. Can't wait to see that happening, his measurements are not exactly catered for in your average Butterick pattern.
Although as far as I am concerned, he can sit unclad at the dinner table every night. He's got marvelous manners and never interrupts.
With all the lovely rain we have had, and then the glorious sunshine today, the garden is practically growing in front of us... so many fabulous things to share, and today I thought I'd show off my new fennel (hence the post title... I was trying to be witty.. trying). I put it in ages ago after Phoebe from
Ballynoe Cottage said she'd be interested to see how it would go here.
Well, it took a long time to germinate (months in fact), but this is how it's going.
Fare fabulously fair fennel.
13 comments:
Oh YAY! Go Ali! I'm glad you had a go!Its looking great!
My fennel died. Phoebe Fail.
Mr Phant is very lovely and looks like he is loving his cuddles from the two little pies!
Phoebe - WHAT??! You were going to be my fennel guide, I sowed the seeds without even looking, confident in the knowledge that wherever I was going you had gone there before me... oh dear. Well, perhaps you could just tell me what you did and I'll do everything except that :)
I LOVE the title! 5-star ;-)
Fennel you'll be pleased to know, does quite well here despite it being a tad warm. I didn't know the seeds took so long to come up, forgotten that one ... but leave one go to seed and you'll have rings on your fingers and fennel on your toes. It's delish cooked or raw, there's a ton of Fennel recipes around but take the simple route and slice it finely with a tossed salad or just steam and enjoy with anything you fancy. If you like liquorice, you'll love Fennel. It's probably a tiny bit late for it but go with it and pull up the bulbs when they are just a couple of inches across or it'll be too hot for it and it won't be so tasty.
Ooo Elaine you gorgeous young thing, thank you for your kind words on my kind of terrible title!
I'm not sure the seeds always take so long, I sowed mine directly into a bed that gets very little sunlight in winter, so it might have affected them... I have never tasted fennel! I am quite excited about it :) I will most certainly let a few go to seed... hey, speaking of seeds, I have more balinese corn... would you like some?
Oooooooooooooooo olifaunt is gorgeous! As is your sofa...and your Little Mud Pies!
Our fennel got lovely and fat and then baked and scoffed. Your fennel is looking dandy but may be getting warm up where you are (envy) - still frosty in the mornings here!
Might I suggest that Mr Elephant will need a bow tie to go with his dinner jacket. :)
Oh Ali, I just rememberd, I bought seeds and never planted them, oh well............no fennel for us then...your children are just the cutetest munchkins.....so, maybe you could post me some fennel then, you know, with some bananas, that never arrived!!!!!
Cute kids, cute elephant and cute baby fennel too! I'm looking forward to our rainy season now - I'm done with the heat!
I let some bronze fennel go to seed and now I truly do have rings on my fingers and fennel on my toes and in my strawberries and in my kale and in my compost.....
Phoebe was my guide too...I planted some after she did...because she did...and mine died too. *sigh*
Always love to see photos of your three kids. LOL I think the one in the middle looks a bit like the postman though.
Yum, I love fennel! My husband doesn't. But I should grow some anyways!!
Hey, there is this blog award thingy, I mentioned your blog, not sure if you do blog awards? http://eatatdixiebelles.blogspot.com/2011/08/sharing-love.html
Mr Elephant is most handsome. I've never grown fennel, but I've just grown my first radishes. I know, tragic - throw them in the ground and then a few weeks later it was "goodness, where did you come from?". :)
Celia I grew radish for the first time this year too! And I discovered something... I don't like radishes. But I do love how they grow so fabulously quickly - talk about feeling like a master gardener.
Dixiebelle, I am going right now to take a look. I love awards as you get to see some lovely new blogs, I just never pass them on because I cannot bear the thought of not mentioning every single blog I have ever visited.
Hazel, if I'd had my choice, it would have been the tree lopper man who come here a few weeks ago, not the postman. My goodness.
Ms Lottie do I need to be careful with the seeds?
Byddi, send it over here... for us the heat and the rain go together - and that's my idea of a very good time!
Suzanne I cannot think what might have happened to the bananas. Perhaps Australia Post needs a bit of a talking to, Hazel's pavlova never made it here either...
Judith, that is actually a most fabulous idea... now all I have to do is look for fatman bowties!
Mrs Bok, roasted sounds PERFECT!
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