gracing the table today.

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The first pomegranate from the tree.

After much hesitation I picked one I think is ripe.

Isn't it a beauty!

To be cut later today, to confirm.

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Jolly possums! (I presume).  

🌳 I found one of the netting bags on the ground under the quince tree, without a bare fruit on the tree or a dropped fruit on the ground. Grrrr. Some are ripe or close to, so I better start the picking.

🍓 I lost all of my strawberries this past year (as mentioned prev) except for 3 plants from runners that managed to survive the drought and neglect until Jan this year when I started to nurture them. One of those has produced a set of flowers and I picked 🍓🍓 2 perfect, ripe strawberries 🍓🍓 this morning for breakfast.

🌧️ It rained well overnight - gentle, almost silent rain - and the ground is soaked. I am very happy about this state of affairs. Unless it was an April Fools' joke.

🌻 Gracing the table today, yellow nasturtium flowers.

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The fruit fly people are coming regularly now. Two teams, I am told. And because I have ripening fruit each team comes fortnightly, week about. The gal team was here again today. They check the fruits (and reported no problems).

The guy team sprays baits close to where the fruits are.

If no more FFs are found they finish May 18th.

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Wooohooo, some of the garlic is up! From the first batch I planted 💃💃💃 The second lot won't be far behind.

Also, I have a minute finger lime that I think is ready to pick. After some years growing in a pot and refusing to set fruit, I have found a tiny dark ruby fruit that I will pick today. How did I miss it all Summer? I watered the pot every day. It must have been well camouflaged behind the leaves and prickles. Progress! I'd given up on it every fruiting. 💃💃💃

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My bean problem is ongoing.

These were well past being usable as green beans, but I don't think they would have stayed on the vine long enough to become mature seed. I'll probably #ferment them and see what happens (anybody who knows my work would have guessed this outcome)...

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I managed to get a net on the tree before the rainbow lorikeets could destroy *all* the nashis.

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Pottering in the garden.

❄️ After all Spring and Summer spent erecting shade cloth, fixing when we have high winds, moving as the sun moves to a more northerly aspect, it is now time to take the shadecloth down. Piles of shadecloth exist now, like drifts of snow.

🌺 I got the big choppers out and removed that last hollyhock root. All the ripened seed pods are in a pile to scatter in areas I wouldn't mind them growing.

🫘 I changed my mind about the bed I will plant the broad beans in, so I'll need to weed it first. It is one more suited to double-row planting.

🌳 I've been thinking about what to plant in a "guild" around the fruit trees. There is a sort-of semi-guild already from the sorts of plants that self-sow there but I've been wondering about being more intentional. It turns out that I have a range of things already that I can grow from cuttings or roots and plant there. (I was watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZ7lHWKTzU Its for Wales, I think, so the plants don't all work here, but the ideas do.)

Luckily I also found some more garden pots under some shadecloth, for the cuttings.

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