shiukopuppy's Blog

It's been cold and gloomy but we are still growing plants. The strawberries I have only seem to produce during winter and spring so we have lots of young strawberries! We ate our green mangoes and they were delicious! And we still have some limes to eat. The lemons are almost matured and the olives are still turning from green to purple in the greenhouse. The madarines are getting larger all the time and the Asian vegetables, lettuces, rocket and shallots are still growing, but slowly. I can see lots of flowers forming on my native Australian plants, so at least there will be winter flower displays!

I spent my weekend in the futile effort of raking up leaves. It is at least healthy, if pointless! :) I trimmed the raspberry, red and blackcurrant canes and tidied up and fed all the strawberries blood and bone. The fruit tree buds seem to be swelling, but my boyfriend says they do that in winter. He must have learnt this from one of his bonsai books? He pruned and trained some bonsai this weekend. So we had a nice weekend!