FRUITS OF DECEMBER

The raised garden beds are again flourishing. The only fertilizer I use is from the worm farm and I never seem to have pests in abundance.  Firstly I have never grown cucumber before and had no idea they were vines like pumpkins.  The cucumbers seem to move very quickly from flower to fruit.

and hide successfully under the large leaves. My basil was struggling, but one dose of worm wiz solved that and now looks very healthy. Usually I would pull capsicum out at the end of summer, but at the beginning of this year, I left one capsicum plant in. It looked so sad over winter, but has flowered and now has 3 green capsicums. Two new capsicum plants have also been added to this garden, but they just have tiny flowers so I will look forward to seeing them next month.  One silly broadbean plant resprouted as I was pulling out the large plants in spring, so I left it there and now have this late crop in summer.



The strawberries are much bigger than last year and lilac flowers are on the chives and eggplant.  The cherry tomatoes have produced a wonderful crop, especially considering they self seeded from last year's plants.  The little cos lettuce are begging to be harvested as well as one flowery one left over from spring.

  Up in the olive grove the little avocado trees are still holding onto about 15 fruit despite some unexpected hail and very expected strong easterly winds.

So what do you do with all this homegrown produce?  Typical Aussie bbq?