kool man

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 30^th, 2013 at 4:08pm:



isnt this thread already in spirituality?

why are you clogging up the forum with garden threads?

while attacking benevolent types.. yours in LIGHT

namaste

- : )

adelcrow wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2013 at 6:11pm:


It takes me 4 days from start to finish to trim all my hedges, about 3 to 4 hrs each day. Given that I live on the Gold Coast where the dam things grow like they on steroids over the summer months.

It certainly doesn't feel bloody good for the soul

Our Sheena's Gold hedges seem to grow faster in the winter.

I have a policy of only planting something which will reward me with an edible fruit or vegetable. So far, mangoes. avocadoes, guavas, persimmons, bluieberrys, tomatoes, beans. however, only guavas, tomtoes fruiting atm.

Not much chance to do much this year, what with the arthritis then the hip operation.

But garlic, onions, spring onions, carrots in old tomato patch (still need to pull nettles etc from around seedless blackberries) this years tomato patch dug and peas, garlic and mustard planted, one patch with brassicas and chard. In the front, a few asian veges and quite a bit of broadbeans.

Need to clean up strawberry patch—once this damn cold is gone. tomato seeds in milk cartons as described in separate thread. (didn’t see this one.)

This is what gardening is mostly about—harvesting a glorious glut and preserving it for later. Bought 2Kg seville oranges Sunday, yesterday made 8 big jars marmalade. Looks good with a great color, and I think it has set OK:



In case you think I used trick photography  look and see how the thin shreds of peel are distributed pretty evenly from top to bottom.

Had some from that half–jar on toast just now—delicious! Let the juice-peel-lemon juice stand for 36 hours, added 2tsp pectin and a knob of ginger finely shredded and cut the sugar by 800g from the amount in the recipe—as you see, the set is fine.

Going to buy a kilo of ginger at the Market tomorrow and make preserved ginger (tried to grow ginger last summer, none came up  but will plant some Sep and see how it goes. Grew it before so know it can be done in Adelaide. Then used the preserved ginger to make a batch ginger marmalade. Will also make a batch with fresh ginger, 200g, finely shredded.