More produce from the garden

We managed to rescue most of our peaches from the peach tree this year.  We beat the birds and the netting meant we were able to get a good crop. I have made a couple of batches of peach and vanilla jam.  We don’t eat much jam but our elder daughter’s family enjoys this particular…

This season’s last batch

Today i made my last batch of tomato sauce for the season.  The next door neighbour will be the recipient of this sauce as he provided the tomatoes. I have run out of sauce bottles and went to the four thrift shops in Bairnsdale to see if they had any bottles for preserves but they…

Another cumquat/kumquat crop

I have written previously about our cumquat tree in the garden and this year the amount of fruit produced by such a small tree is truly incredible.  I have made cumquat marmalade until we have more marmalade than we know what to do with so I thought I would try something a little different and…

Garden produce. . .chillies are something we can grow successfully

At the moment we have chillies that are ready to harvest and this harvest is on-going.  I picked some yesterday and strung them for the kitchen.  We still have some of our dried chillies from last year but it is always nice to have fresh ones hanging in the kitchen. Previously I have made sweet…

I think of Popeye when I think of olive oil!

Not that we are likely to be producing any olive oil but we have managed to harvest some olives from our little olive tree. I wrote previously about how we needed to net the tree to protect it from the parrots. This is our harvest. Not a great deal, about 180 olives or enough to…

Cumquat time again

I have posted previously about the cumquat marmalade I make.  The tree that we planted two years ago is now well established and produces fruit almost continuously. Today I changed one kilo of cumquats into several jars of cumquat marmalade.  You can find the recipe on the previous post. I also prepared one kilo of…