Wild seed garden

 The seed garden is looking a little like wilderness - I'll have to do some more work in there.

About to harvest some onions - good, they will make some more space for something else. They take up such a long time in the garden bed.

The radish forest

 Abandon all hope ye who enter - the Black Spanish Radish Forest.

I'm collecting these for seed - they're over my head and tricky to get past.

A fair bit of food

 We're now getting a fair amount of food from the AP orchard garden.

Baby carrots and turnips

 The same plus purple radishes

We're getting a large amount of baby carrots.

Globe artichokes can feed you

 Contrary to what other gardening authors say, I think globe artichokes are well worth growing. We have whole meals of artichokes in early summer.

They are very easy to grow - a kind of low-maintenance food source, just waiting around to be picked. A bit fussy to process but once you get the hang of it - well worth doing (they're delicious!).

Globe artichokes cooked in butter with warrigal greens.

First earlies

Here's some of our first early potatoes (and a "Black Spanish" radish). Earlies are always much appreciated but there's never enough.

Spring - WOW!

Here's the view from our kitchen window, paulownia trees flowering and into the young citrus forest.

The gates to the seed garden.

The arch to the plum tree that gave us 12 crates of plums in the driest year ever with no watering.

Clive's garden - named for a departed friend - looking blooming wonderful.











The kitchen garden from outside the window below.

   

Lisa's herb garden going mad.

I love spring!

Truth, liberty and radishes!

Here's Lisa's looking like Joan-of-Arc with a Spanish radish.

 Lunch was a radish salad from the garden (with borage flowers)