I’ve got aphids…as a grower of chillies this is the same as saying my children have headlice…other gardeners run as fast and as far away as possible not unlike parents of children without headlice! It’s been too hot to use white oil and controlling the aphids by hand has been an epic fail. I did however discover another avenue of control via Saucy Onion who blogged about her aphid infestation.
I love fresh herbs! It’s satisfying being able to walk out my back door and cut fresh herbs as I need them. But invariably, winter sets in and the herb garden becomes somewhat dormant. And that’s where drying the bounty grown throughout summer comes into its own!
We need to have a potted garden-warming party because there are a number of new occupants. Firstly welcome two new oregano plants to the garden. The original is one is still growing great guns but
Meet Harriet the Jalopeno chilli. She came to live with us today. She’s a mature tree with a fair bit of fruit already growing so she got a sassy looking electric blue pot. I have big plans for the fruit that Harriet bears. I’ll be smoking some to make chipotle’s, i’ll be bottling some in oil so i have chilli infused oil to cook with and I’m hoping to make pickles and good some fabulous Mexican dishes with them. In other chilli news, we have four other bushes full of fruit. Mr SuziWong was very happy with the flavour and texture of the chillies even though they weren’t overly hot. He said they had a “bit of bite once you get to the seeds”.
This is my first tomato harvest from the potted garden! I swear that the image hasn’t been edited other than to re-size. The colours of these tomatoes are amazing! By the time this picture was taken i’d already eaten two tomatoes. They were sweet and juicy and bursting with flavour…just like tomatoes are supposed to taste like. They smell strongly of that vine smell…a true tomato smell that promises a fresh sweetness only home grown vine ripened tomatoes can deliver. The rest of the garden is going great guns! I’ve regularly harvested basil, parsley, mint, cos lettuce leaves and curry tree leaves.
The chilli trees are fruiting so it looks like we’re going to have a brilliant chilli season that will hopefully reap enough fruit to freeze throughout winter. Most of the rest of the potted garden is looking as good! Feel free to take a wander through the garden…
Good morning and welcome to the morning news update, I’m Suziwong.
Graphic photographs of the last moment of four inmates awaiting execution for the senseless attempted murder of two tomato vines have been illicitly released to the ‘media’ from someone who appears to have been a corrections employee. The department of caterpillar corrections released a statement this morning apologising to the public for the blunder.
Be warned that the following picture which graphically depicts the hardened criminals post execution may upset some readers.
Last evening we went to get Indira a new home…in a potted garden that means a new pot. I’ve never bought a glazed pot before, but this striking red, extremely deep pot yelled out to me (not literally of course, i’m not freakin crazy…a little weird perhaps but not certifiable) ‘take me, take me, i’d be the perfect home for Indira Naidoo your curry leaf tree’. We ummed and ahhed for a while, debated over the colours and textures of similar shaped pots, but we decided to take the advice of the afore mentioned pot and take it home.
Writing my thesis is driving me nutty. I had ordered a curry leaf tree from Daley’s Tropical fruit tree nursery in northern NSW and it arrived yesterday looking lovely! See my last post where I introduced the new arrival which I’ve named Indira (explanation in last post! LOL)
Then this morning a small package arrived marked “fragile”…i was wondering what the hell I had ordered online that was “fragile”…well low and behold when I opened the package this little baby was inside; pot wrapped in plastic and jammed tight with shredded newspaper. What I think happened was when I was looking on Daley’s website it said that they were out of stock but could register to get an email when stock arrived. I then found Paradise nursery and ordered this one. I vaguely remember getting a text last week from an unknown sender that said go to Daley’s website to get your curry leaf tree. I think I assumed that it was Paradise emailing me with details of where to order one from because they were out of stock. I assumed this because I’ve had a shocking time trying to find curry leaf trees….well…no harm done! This little cutie will be put outside in the shade to ‘harden up’ and then will be re-potted on the weekend. Since I named the other curry leaf tree Indira, i thought I should name this one too…I don’t want to start any sibling rivalry! She is so tiny it looks like Indira (the ‘curry leaf tree’ variety, not the ‘Indira Naidoo’ variety) had a baby, so i’ll just call her baby…”no body puts baby in a corner”…in honour of Patrick Swayze and THAT line the the movie Dirty Dancing. The pot garden is looking brilliant at the moment.
I’ve been looking for a curry leaf tree for ages! On top of that I’ve been drooling over Indira Naidoo’s curry leaf tree that she grows on her edible balcony at http://www.saucyonion.blogspot.com it’s a seriously good looking curry leaf tree. Last week I finally found an online source for a curry leaf tree in Qld Northern NSW and today she arrived. So in honour of Indira’s fabulous looking curry leaf tree, i’ve named curry leaf tree Indira. She’s currently hardening up in my back yard and in a few days time i’ll repot her into a lovely new home/pot on the weekend. Welcome to Adelaide, Indira!
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