Monthly Archives: November 2012

Cabbage Moths

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

My broccoli is really healthy this season. It’s been a great crop of leaves, but the flowers have been kind of stunted and I couldn’t figure out why. It gets plenty of water, a regular feed of chook poo tea … Continue reading →

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Humans are sooooo Stooopid

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

Only a stupid creature would build a fence around really tasty vegetables. My poor chickens can only watch in horror as we fortify and re-fortify the veggie patch. I wonder what they think. Probably that we have pea brains are … Continue reading →

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Protecting my Avocados

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

My avocado tree has avocados for the first time this year. It’s something like 8 years old and it started from a seed sprouting in my compost heap. I’ve watched and hoped and waited and worried and now it looks … Continue reading →

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Saving Oragnes

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

Joe has an orange tree and he no longer bothers harvesting the fruit. He knows what keen garden produce people we are so he offered Frank a tree’s worth of oranges if he’d come pick them. Frank trundled over on … Continue reading →

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Possums have moved in

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

In April we hung a parrot nest box in the gum tree in our back yard. Nothing moved in by early spring so I despaired. Then, a couple of weeks ago, Frank saw a possum dart out of the box … Continue reading →

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Bee Health Check

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

It’s been 3 weeks since we stole the honey from our bees. After the trauma we put them through (and they put us through) we’ve left each other alone to settle down to a normal bee/human existence. We knew we … Continue reading →

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One Native Raspberry

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

I can’t exactly claim a great raspberry harvest this year. In fact I’ve had exactly 1 berry from my native raspberry plant. And I didn’t even have that – I let Frank eat it. The raspberry bush was a freebie … Continue reading →

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Honeycomb Recipe

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

This post is about the sweets, not the contents of a beehive. Since harvesting honey from my bees’ honeycomb my mind has been busy thinking of ways to use it. Being a tragic junk food junkie, my first thoughts ran … Continue reading →

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Enough Greens

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

How many greens is enough? I’m not sure there’s ever enough. I’ve been constantly sowing and planting out a variety of seedlings and we’ve been able to harvest non-stop for months now. In fact, the beds are pretty chockers with … Continue reading →

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Peeling Gum

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Laura Rittenhouse

Our little gum tree is becoming quite a mighty thing. At about 9 years old, it towers over the massive oak behind it in our neighbour’s garden and it’s finally spending some of its energy to get fat, not just … Continue reading →

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