Lilly Pilly resurrection in progress

Mum's Red Cactus

She sent me a two leaf cutting of this a few years ago. While mum died in July, her memory lives.

Wow! Many eggs!

Each of these babies is now laying an egg a day. So in collection, you don't wanna miss a day!

Lemon: I love a good prune

Hard prune tonight. Love it. Should be fine this time next year.

Can't help but cook for them

As the kids get older and it becomes clearer and clearer that they want (aye need) me to butt out I've found plenty of other things to occupy me. That means I do a lot less cooking, especially given the way menu choices have 8ncreased tge degree of difficulty.

But the combination of a friend giving me a (fmaily sized) fish and some lamb, a message I saw about "Nutella rollups" and a lazy night at home meant that I did a little more cooking tonight.

Grafting to self seeded peaches - nice

When you see what you think is a peach tree spring up in your driveway, you're probably right. But you'd be wrong if you think it'll give you nice peaches. Stonefruit tend not to work that way - it's a team effort between the rootstock and the scion wood.

The good news is that if youve got a strong sapling then you have the first part. Then to just graft to the top.

Ive got one in the driveway where I've budded about five donut peaches and espaliered them, as well as putting a heritage "Giuseppe Masciantonio" on the upright. Both should give me fruit this year - I think I did them three years ago. Also a little one in the garden has only had one summer as the three year ago attempt failed. But I should get fruit on that too.

The experiment continues.

Probably not the cleverest thing I've done

Sure, the glypho will kill the weed. But the overspray has hurt the lawn. So, wipe on really is a good idea.