Category Archives: Summer Harvesting

Saturday Spotlight – Majestic Butter Beans

I’ve decided to start a new series of posts, called Saturday (occasionally Sunday)  Spotlight  (mainly because everyone loves alliteration don’t they?).  Each post will highlight a specific variety of produce that I have grown and how it performed in my micro-climate (Melbourne’s Northern suburbs).  If anyone else … Continue reading

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Monday Harvest – 18th Feb 2013

Its been a warm week here with another one forecast for next week (albeit slightly cooler).  I do like to have a couple of proper heat waves over summer otherwise I feel a bit cheated.  I don’t always enjoy the … Continue reading

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Top 5 – Summer Vegetables to Preserve

For many Australian kitchen gardeners February is the most bountiful month of the growing year.  (If you have any doubt about this check out the Witches Kitchen’s haul, impressive eh?) February is a month in which the volume of produce can start to … Continue reading

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Harvest Monday – 11th Feb 2013

Last week was definitely my best harvesting week of the year thus far.  Pretty much all my summer crops are producing at the moment (except for some very late planted corn) and I’m really enjoying the harvests. This week the … Continue reading

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Top 5 – Summer Fruits and Methods to Preserve them

In November I bought a Fowlers preserving kit on eBay.  Annoyingly my mother gave hers away a few years ago.  The kit I bought used to belong to a woman who was moving into a retirement village.  The woman has 8 sons.  … Continue reading

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