Asparagus declares it is spring

This asparagus spear has snuck up on me - I've finally had it long enough that I can start to pick the asparagus and we've put the house on the market - I must have asparagused the whole of NSW. I'll need to pick this one today or it will turn into a fern. I can keep picking all the spears that emerge for a couple of months before I let any grow into ferns. Lady with an asparagus farm told me to cut new shoots under the ground. Now I've had this plant in for five years I can cut about as much as I want to.

So asparagus, silverbeet, broccoli, cauliflower, nasturtium, rocket and lettuce, capsicums and chillis, various herbs and a few varieties of lettuce.

Bon appetit

Baby Cauliflower

Minature cauliflower - guess it's time to pick it as the floweret is starting to open up. It's just so pretty - but soon it will be cream of cauliflower soup.

View from my computer

Love this tropical outlook - spoiled rotten really

Garden by Gaia - weeding by me

One of the reasons I love my garden is that the whole structure has been designed by mother nature - my only role has been to remove the rubbish and plant some ground covers.

Home sweet home

Tell your friends - my home is waiting to be adopted by a loving family
Looking pretty good - hope someone falls in love with my place

Family cleaning recipes

Start with a plastic spray bottle from the supermarket - fill with water and add one ingredient to each bottle :

Lavender oil; half teaspoonful - general cleaner - great for inside the car, inside cupboards

Clove oil; about ten drops - kills mould - inside wooden cupboards seem to like it too.

Tea-tree oil; about half teaspoonful - antifungal as well as antiseptic - spray round toilet - foot and wound spray

Vinegar; 2 tablespoonsful - great for glass -

I've been having fun with these recipes and just realized the plastic spray bottles were taking over my cupboards - they've been sneaking up on me one at a time.

Bicarb soda - buy it in bulk from the produce store or the health food store.

Cooking salt - coarser - antiseptic abrasive.

Long and winding road

I can't believe the way you feel a million miles from care walking up my driveway
And who knows what you will see - native ginger, cordylines. Got to start letting go - hope to find someone who will love this place.