Things have been quiet, though as always, I've been busy. Not sure I have much more to say really. Maybe next month I'll start going through the back log of photos, creativity, events and memories and start sharing them again. We shall see.
In the meantime, here are some photos of the pumpkins that sprung up out of our glorious compost from when we did the front garden beds in September last year. For the first time ever we had butternut pumpkins!
I was hand pollinating some of these, but our neighbours have bees and they were buzzing around most days too. Steve wonders why I bother, but it feels very pointless to have a huge sprawling pumpkin vine with nothing to show for it.
The pumpkins grew up and over the retaining wall and alongside the water tank. Aside from accidently shading out the little flowers we had there, it's actually the perfect place for them, so we are now thinking we will convert that strip of grass into a pumpkin patch long term. I'm the only real pumpkin fan in the house though, so maybe it's not the wisest of investments. Perhaps it could be used for corn too.
In the meantime; pumpkin scones anyone?
