Petula's Patch

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August 8th and the potted up tomato cuttings are having a day in the sun and putting on lots of growth.

The parent plant that they came from started life as a volunteer 10 months ago!

The clothes line in Winter helps out as part of the Yellow Podded Pea trellis.

The lower 'trellis' components are all found objects from hard rubbish piles.

The plants are from self saved seed.

Apple and Sultana Loaf, Pear Crumble and Chicken Wings.

Today was one of those thrifty, 'use it up' kind of cooking days.

2 soft apples, some pantry oddments and 3 tins of pears (bought cheaply as part of a bulk buy) became delicious food.

2 random chicken wings in the freezer were defrosted overnight and went into the oven to cook with the crumble.

Tomato Experiment.

These cuttings are some of the last surviving from a cherry tomato plant that self seeded 8 months ago. Winter has killed most of the rest of the plant now.

They are in a mild seaweed solution. Seaweed encourages root growth.

My hope is that they will develop adventitious roots and be ready to pot up in 4 - 6 weeks. For me, that will be a month out from Spring.

Fingers crossed!

UPDATE July 7th:

Answer for @sublimedestinyking

Roots have started developing! Not ready to pot up yet but we're on our way.

Week 2 of Winter and the last of the tomatoes from the self seeded cherry tomato plants have been picked.

Tonight some stale, left over, home made bread became a bread and butter pudding.

This is my Feijoa bush 1 week out from Winter.

The bush has now finished fruiting after flowering 6 months ago.

The Feijoas are dropping thick and fast at the moment. Some of them ended up in this Feijoa and Apple crumble today.

2 weeks until Winter and I'm loading up my vegie beds with as many seeds as they can handle. Over sowing and over planting in some cases. I want abundance and volume.

I'm gardening with a prepper frame of mind. Food shortages and high prices are coming (thanks Trump). Unplanted seeds left stored in the packet will not grow food.

I'm going particularly heavy with leafy greens (silverbeet and lettuce). I'd like to have enough excess produce to share with my neighbours.

Sir David Attenborough is 100 years old today - May 8th.

THANK YOU David for everything you have done and accomplished for this planet.