Kitchen. Garden. Love.

Kitchen.

Garden.

Love.

3 Ingredients for Life.

  • Tansy – Natural Insect Repellant

    This gorgeous old fashioned looking herb is called Tansy. It has cute little gold button flowers with a fern like foliage. Tansy grows to around two meters, and can be quite invasive, so be careful where you plant it. I love it! It’s said to be a natural insect repellent too! So grow it in […]

  • The Glenlyon Village Market

    The Glenlyon Village Market is on the 3rd Saturday of the month. Glenlyon is my town, it’s dinky cute, with only a general store, a fire brigade, and a hall. The village market has the rad locals selling their homegrown vegies, eggs, preserves, cakes and stuff. It’s all true blue prices 30 cents, 2 dollars […]

  • Me Little Sweet Pea

    Oh, sweet pea you are so splendid. Sweet peas are such beautiful flowers, blooming in white, pinks, and reds. Sweet peas are climbers, and grow quite tall… 2-3 meters! So, remember they need plenty of room to grow. Plant them near a wall or a fence or pop up some lattice for them to meander. […]

  • Potato Harvest

    Delicious home-grown potatoes are one of the many pleasures of life. Boil ’em, mash ’em, fry ’em, butter ’em, devour ’em I say! The varieties of potatoes are endless too! Desiree, Pink Eye, Kipfler, Pontiac, Sebago – the list goes on and on. Get a collection of different types for a beautiful colorful display when […]

  • Kasundi – Tomato Chutney Recipe

    This is a delicious Kasundi recipe! It’s an Indian type tomato chutney. Lovely with cheese and bread, or my sausage roll recipe, salads, rice, couscous and bbq meats, the list is endless. I usually use my red tomatoes, but I had so many little yellow tomatoes I decided yellow chutney would be even more fun. […]

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