Wednesday 21 May 2014
Saturday 11 May 2013
Autumn is a busy time in any garden with crops to bring in and process. This year we added a Excalibur food dehydrator to our ever expanding appliances. We ordered it too late to process the nectarines, plums and apples, but we did manage to dry our herbs and now we have enough rosemary, sage, parsley, basil mint, mint and Vietnamese mint to make several jars of herbal stock substitute to last several months
The results are much nicer than any store bought stock mix. I add dried onion and garlic along with the herbs and one teaspoon of salt.
Three years after starting a tentative food garden in North-East Tasmania, we are now starting to see the rewards of our efforts. Our garden has grown and changed over this time time and perhaps now is a good time to start a record of our efforts. Our site is an almost untouched half acre, half way up a hillside in an old tin mining town. The soil is good, but shallow and rocky. It has taken time to build the soils and to learn how to garden in this area. I am always surprised at how much the garden grows each year and how much we have achieved in such a short time.
The summer house last spring when we arrived back from a trip to the mainland, sowing a weedy vegetable garden and a crop of winter growing broad beans.
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