My tomatoes have begun to flower. And flowers because fruit. With 35 plants in and growing well I am hopeful for an abundance of tomotoes soon. I do enjoy the anticipation in the measured progress of growing vegetables.
The transformation of hard, furry, yellow fruit into the rich, glowing, red jelly is a delight to behold and well worth the jelly-making process. The result is delicious and tangy with a real depth to fruit flavour. I love it on toast with lots of butter.
My mum came to visit today, bringing with her a big basket of home grown apples. They're delicious and crunchy, juicy and sweet, with wonderfully upright stalks. I just ate one. Now I want another. Not because I'm hungry, but because they such a pleasure to eat.
Passionfruit are quite reminiscent of large, hairless testicles, but their innards are delicious. Fragrant and fruity with just the right balance of sweet and sour, especially when home grown. I love the sound crackle as the seeds are crunched between my teeth. Photo: Ed Riley
I have three Thomson Family Shiraz vines in my front yard. They come from Best's Great Western and there they make delicious red wine from them. I let the winemakers make wine and my grapes are scoffed straight off the vine. Even the cutest, tiniest bunches.
Homegrown produce has so much more flavour and texture than its commercially-grown friends. These brown pears arrived, as fruit often does, in a little bag with my mum. She grows many and varied fruits and veggies in her garden and is very generous with them. My response to her gifts is predictable - a little
There is a large nectarine tree in the back corner of my garden. It's visible from my kitchen window, so I get to watch it transform throughout the year from winter stick, to leafy spring blossom, through to fruit set and ripening. The tree is loaded this year with fragrant, fat nectarines. I toddle out
Beta vulgaris of the Chenopodiaceae family is a descendant of Sea Beet from the Mediterranean coast. It self-seeds in my garden with gay abandon and when they first pop their heads up, the baby red rainbow chard plants are as cute as a button. They are tough, grow quickly and look wonderful in rows in
We found a packet of marshmallows hiding in the back of the pantry. Naturally this led to talk of making fire. We built a pretty little fire just the right size for toasting. There's something so primal about creating a good fire and then sitting around watching it burn like a magical beast.
The season is a strange one this year on many levels. The tomatoes are late and not very prolific, but the ones I have managed to coax into existence are quite delicious. Sweet, juicy, and zingy, the little red orbs hang like jewels from the dying branches. They shout their tiny victory over the weather
