I started this blog as a way for me to keep family and friends, (over 8,000 miles away) up to date on what I (and Dave), are up to. After a while, I felt bored with the daily writing and not having internet access readily available at all times for posting and adding pictures. That being said, I want to continue writing and posting about things that interest me- art, food and gardening, (and of course Dave and teaching).
I am looking forward to school holiday coming up in 2 weeks, which will give me 6 weeks off!!! More time for blogging??? We shall see. I am also looking forward to finding my camera, which is lost at the moment. This will allow me to get all the photos I want.
Another cold got me this week, which is annoying since I never get sick. On the bright side, I have already called my boss for work tomorrow telling them I am sick. It has been raining for 12 hours straight, so it may flood down at school in Mitimiti which will make my calling in not matter anyhow. Either way, I will be playing hookie and going to my other job at Oturu School, to get caught up on all my projects before prize-giving this Thursday.
Dave is building screens to cover the windows in our little house and I have been reading food blogs most of the day. Lazy, rainy Sunday.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Garden update!
Our gardens are growing so well!!! (I have misplaced my camera so when i find it, i will post photos). :)
Over the past 6 weeks, Dave and I have planted the following in our garden:
100 tomatoes: green zebra, tigerella, cherokee purple and sungold
60+ peppers: jalapeno, ancho and california wonder (our marconi red didn't sprout).
30+ cucumbers: pickling & green dragon
20 eggplants- tokyo black
100 squash: pumpkins- musquee de provence, spaghetti, zucchini, yellow crookneck
100+ garlic plants (actually, we planted these almost 6 months ago and they are almost ready for harvest).
200+ Genovese Giant Basil
30 Swiss chard (called silver beet here)
200+ bean plants: dwarf fire tongue, cannelini white & purple teepee
4 melons- jenny lind
heaps of leeks, spring onioins, nasturtiums and cilantro.
We also have containers with chives, rosemary, sage, thyme, a lime tree, rhubarb and lemon grass.
My goal for this weekend is to spray round up around the concrete pad that our batch and caravan are on, which hopefully will kill the kikuyu grass. Then, I want to pull out the spring flowers in the front and fill it with all the flowers/ perennials i started from seed, (borage, nepeta, echinacea, rudbekia, Snapdragons, celosia, sunflowers, eryngium, and i think i'm forgetting some).
I have got another cold from the kids at school, but oh well. I'm happy cause i weighed myself and i've lost 15 pounds since i visited the states in August!!! woo-hoooo!!!! A bit more to go and I will have dropped all the weight I put on when I quit smoking. :)
I also have been planning ahead a bit so we can store all our produce we are growing. We can put our sign out in front of the driveway and people can buy stuff, but I also just got some 1L & 1.5L canning jars to keep our pickles and tomatoes in. Yeah!!!
Over the past 6 weeks, Dave and I have planted the following in our garden:
100 tomatoes: green zebra, tigerella, cherokee purple and sungold
60+ peppers: jalapeno, ancho and california wonder (our marconi red didn't sprout).
30+ cucumbers: pickling & green dragon
20 eggplants- tokyo black
100 squash: pumpkins- musquee de provence, spaghetti, zucchini, yellow crookneck
100+ garlic plants (actually, we planted these almost 6 months ago and they are almost ready for harvest).
200+ Genovese Giant Basil
30 Swiss chard (called silver beet here)
200+ bean plants: dwarf fire tongue, cannelini white & purple teepee
4 melons- jenny lind
heaps of leeks, spring onioins, nasturtiums and cilantro.
We also have containers with chives, rosemary, sage, thyme, a lime tree, rhubarb and lemon grass.
My goal for this weekend is to spray round up around the concrete pad that our batch and caravan are on, which hopefully will kill the kikuyu grass. Then, I want to pull out the spring flowers in the front and fill it with all the flowers/ perennials i started from seed, (borage, nepeta, echinacea, rudbekia, Snapdragons, celosia, sunflowers, eryngium, and i think i'm forgetting some).
I have got another cold from the kids at school, but oh well. I'm happy cause i weighed myself and i've lost 15 pounds since i visited the states in August!!! woo-hoooo!!!! A bit more to go and I will have dropped all the weight I put on when I quit smoking. :)
I also have been planning ahead a bit so we can store all our produce we are growing. We can put our sign out in front of the driveway and people can buy stuff, but I also just got some 1L & 1.5L canning jars to keep our pickles and tomatoes in. Yeah!!!
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