Welcome autumn

Turning over from tomatoes to broccoli.

Newly trained chooks  turning over the compost heap

Last year's compost ready to be turned out to the garden over winter

Two baby chooks who aren't such babies anymore ready to go with the adults.

Autumn could be worse.

Quail, native succulents, salt bush

2015 Henschke Joseph Hill Gewürztraminer.

Simple and beautiful; Tomato and Basil

I'm so sorry I forgot. This is one of the nicest things I ever eat but they always come from my own garden.

Citrus gall wasp: You're only helping if you kill thrm

I've spoken about the gall wasp before. I said that it's important to cut them off your citrus and I hope I said that it was important to dispose of the galls.

Yep if you just cut them out leave them there (see the holes in the galls) they will take to flight and give you an even bigger problem next year.

Couscous Salad: I might just get healthy

I'd like to be 85kg before I go to Perris in May. As a personal trainer once said - "you can't outrun a bad diet" so this is perhaps a start.

Loquats for my students

I'm teaching tomorrow -Saturday - so I might as well take some loquats to my students.

The birds have found them so if I don't take them off now there won't be many left.

Two steaks and a beer

No I don't plan to eat them myself. But here they are.