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.
Wooohooo, some of the garlic is up! From the first batch I planted ๐๐๐ 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. ๐๐๐
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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)...
I managed to get a net on the tree before the rainbow lorikeets could destroy *all* the nashis.
Pottering in the garden.
โ๏ธ 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.
๐บ 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.
๐ซ 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.
๐ณ 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.
So I took a spare moment to pop out to pick some of the hollyhock seed pods and realised that there were some, but Spring would be the best season.
But once I started pruning to get the pods, I just kept cutting. I'd been wanting to get rid of them from the veggie garden and sow some elsewhere.
So cut cut cut cut, chop chop chop, little digs little digs, and most of that great clump is out. Just one persistent large root that I'll take the choppers to tomorrow.
Now that feels good!
By the same author, an excellent post on #Purslane and how to use it.
@sister_ratched It would have been a good article for that person who asked about purslane.
I have found this too. My efforts to dry a lot of purslane have been vindicated ๐
This is from an interesting article about using garden greens including marshmallows and other mallows, hollyhocks and lots of others.
https://foragerchef.com/common-mallow-plants-cheeseweed
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I know I have posted this pic before but it is getting tantalisingly close to time to pick the pomegranates and quinces. I check them every few days, but watched kettles never boil ๐
I may make very small amounts of quince molasses and pomegranate molasses for occasional use (high in sugar which I am not supposed to have) or gifts. Altho I no longer have a juicer ... so maybe not this year. It depends, maybe I can borrow a juicer for a day.
Making quince molasses is fun. The juice will start off green-yellow in colour and gradually turn a bright red as it cooks.
Makrut limes are also on ripeness-watch, for Indian pickles.
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I was out in the garden to say hello to the bees earlier than they were expecting this morning. Not 1 bee on the 4 tulsi plants!
There are mushrooms growing after the last rains. No wellingtons are planned, they don't look right ๐คฃ
Caterpillars are on the finger lime. I know from past experience that they can decimate it. I will have to deal with them even tho I prefer not to.
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