Beets
December 13th, 2011 § 2 Comments
The beetroot has grown incredibly fast. The white and yellow ones especially. We had these roasted for dinner a few nights ago, delicious!
We also have ripe zucchini, squash and alpine (white) strawberries. On their way are the tomatoes, carrots, silverbeet, pumpkins and potatoes.
The peony bud shrivelled up and died, I was so disappointed, but I think the ants may have gotten to it. So I shall let it live for one more year, I am such a softy.
And the chooks. We left them in the care of our neighbours when we went away the weekend before last and the foxes got them. I thought F would be devastated (I was little sad myself) but we told him what happened (I don’t believe in telling children lies about what happens when animals die) and he seems to have understood and accepted that they are gone. We are going to wait until the New Year to get some more once G has built a fully enclosed chook run. That way we can leave them when we go away and not have to rely on someone else to let them in and out of their little house.
See you on the other side of the silly season!
Oh, it’s spring there! Or summer, even. How lovely.
(Poor chickens. I agree, though, it will be much easier for F if this stuff is presented to him in a matter-of-fact way from the get-go.)
Poor chooks. And holy garden batman, I am envious of your homegrown produce.
I miss tropical Christmas. We are so definitely having to go home to my parents next year.