The cucumbers planted nearby are still tiny, but the rampicante squash is rambling all over. Tastes pretty good (like a courgette/zucchini) when young, but I’m looking to store the big one.
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New Zealand Garden Diary: Perennial Edibles and Sleeping Bumble Bees
This summer is very cool and my tomatoes, courgettes and pumpkins are sulking, but the beans are getting going and the bees and I are enjoying the flowers in my garden, including the artichokes.
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And there are some edible plants that keep going and going. I love how the walking onions are gradually moving around the vegetable patch.
New Zealand Garden Diary: Bees and Broad Beans
I love watching the bees do their work around the garden. Especially in the broad bean bed.
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New Zealand Garden Diary: It's Spring and the Birds are Busy
The birds are very busy in Lyttelton at the moment. I saw a pair of kingfishers on a fence by the Bridle Path this week, the grey warblers are singing their little hearts out and the skies are a superhighway of sparrows.
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Blackbirds are one of the many non-native species introduced to New Zealand by (homesick? crazy?) Brits a hundred or so years ago. They do very well here and they drive me crazy as they mess up garden beds and disturb seedlings looking for earthworms, etc. But I guess they have got just as much right to be here as me.