Cooling colours and Comebacks
Or when you start to go off the colour green … Some clever people claim that there are infinite parallel universes and that therefore every permutation of circumstances will exist […]
Tag Archives: grapes
Tutti Frutti
It’s easy to forget about fruit. Certainly the fruits which grow in my garden seem to survive and produce with very little intervention. I know crops are better if you […]
Wet and Drying
How it must look to my neighbours is anybody’s guess. On weekday evenings I can frequently be found out in the garden in complete darkness, fumbling about with a flashlight […]
Peas please!
Yesterday I was admiring the progress of the Karmen red onions which went in the ground only five weeks ago. Their tall green shoots indicate a strong root system developing […]
on the grapevine
OK birds, you’ve had your share.. Watching blackbirds and robins eating my grapes in recent days spurred me into the annual vine harvest. Working along the fence where the vines […]
Colour coming through
As we approach the later cropping season, much of the vegetable garden is green again, with colourful early beetroots, radishes, carrots and rhubarb long since lifted and eaten or preserved. […]
On the grapevine
There are two grape vines in the garden here, one black and one green. The past two years only the black grapes came through, with no fruit at all on […]
Juicy Fruit
A week ago I picked most of the grapes from our two vines. With a plan to put them through the Magimix juicer, I was pleased to get quite a […]
Heard it through the grape vine
The grapes are very nearly ripe now. Trailed along the fence, they catch the afternoon and rapidly shortening evening sunshine. A couple more weeks and we’ll whip them off and […]
Grapes revealed
Cutting back a lot of vine leaves today revealed a plenty of grapes coming along nicely; more than we realised we had. The bunch in the photo is a close […]
