The Equinox and full moon coincided last night ...... I love the full moon ..... and only recently found out I was born on a full moon ... perhaps that explains why I am so drawn to it.... the Equinox (when day and night are of equal length) brings with it the change of seasons and is also something I really look forward to .... cooler days of Autumn after the somewhat exhausting heat of Summer is something to revel in and reviving and preparing the garden with new season crops is also a joy..... I've made a start on the planting ... and setting up the garden beds to discourage the feathered girls from digging out the seedlings as quickly as I put them in....
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| The changing of the seasons..... Welcome Autumn !! |
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| First of the broccoli, cauliflower and leafy greens in. |
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| Re-purposed poly pipe and bird netting to make covers to hopefully keep the girls out |
Our first year getting a crop from the Pink Lady..... we netted the tree... and after a long wait for them to ripen properly ... we got around 40 apples.... our two other apple trees (an orange blenheim and an Akane) didn't do as well and we hadn't netted so just stewed and froze the handful of apples the lorikeets and their pals left us.
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| The last of the Pink Ladies from our tree... |
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| The last of the tomatoes.... Roma's did amazingly well... others not so good as last year. |
Our grape vine also produced several bunches of grapes which took FOREVER to ripen ..... and I'm not sure why the bunches have large and tiny grapes on them... this doesn't seem to happen with commercial grapes... we had netted them but the birds still managed to find the way in and ate their share !!
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| First time for grapes on our vine. |
Grabbed lunch this week at the Cannibal Creek Bakehouse in Garfield.....Lovely little spot and the guys are busy baking their delicious sourdough.... and the cafe has great food ...I ate a freshly baked foccacia straight out of the ancient wood fired oven !
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| Always love and share tea presentations.... lemongrass and ginger just for a change from my usual green tea .. |
My gorgeous G-boy.... now in Grade 3 !!.... come home very excited with his ribbons from School Sports... He came first in the hurdles.... who knew !! Also ribbons for relay and discus ... So glad that he loves sports and competing and is doing so well at school.
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| Big smiles as he wears his ribbons....... just love this little guy. |
Hope everyone enjoys Autumn and spends happy times with loved ones.....especially you Carolyn. !
Pink lady are our favourite apples..how exciting to have grown some of your own.
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