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Grow your own
We can't let autumn pass without a pumpkin photo. These are ordinary old butternuts and Queensland blues - but aren't they fabulous!
We've had our first frost. If you haven't done the following already, do it now. Quick sticks.
- Harvest your pumpkins.
- Pick your kiwifruit.
- Dig your sweet potatoes.
- Bring in any remaining tomatoes, regardless of the colour. Green ones may still ripen; and if they don't there's always, yes, green tomato chutney.
- Plant green manure crops.
- Plant garlic. Getting a bit late, but not TOO late.
- Collect Chinese quinces, stew with a bit of sugar, pulp them with your stick blender and use your dehydrator to turn them into fruit leather.
Don't forget to;
- Collect any beans that have dried but are still hanging on the trellis - good for planting or winter soup.
- Crawl under your feijoa tree to find any remaining fruit.
- Pick up finger limes.
- Try and beat the birds to the ripe cherry guavas. Mind you, the birds are welcome to some of them.
- Spend some time watching the LBBs - the little brown birds - that at this time of year are hop-searching in mixed flocks through the shrubs around your house.
Happy very late autumn
Meredith
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