By produce. This is the basket of capsicums I just hauled in. Four bushes, none taller than 18 inches high, and they deliver such a bounty. I don’t know whether to freeze or bottle … need to check my books. This weekend I have mashed and frozen a huge pumpkin, a hundredweight of potato (so [...]

I spent the weekend preserving - tomato ketchup and pickled garlic. Here are the recipes.

Tomato Ketchup

Either you will like this or you won’t - it is very sweet, which I love, but others say they think it is too sweet. But don’t cut down on the sugar as that is one of the preservatives in [...]

No, no kitchen photos yet. Sorry. I am waiting on the builder to do the last 10%.

I thought I’d update on my progress on the self-sufficiency experiment. I wanted to become 100% self-sufficient in vegetables this year, and about 40% in fruit. Inevitably, I was over-optimistic.

I am doing well on the vegies. [...]

I bought in most of the onion harvest some 3-5 weeks ago and they have been in storage since. I planted mostly Cream Golds. I planted 120-odd, thinking this would be nowhere near enough.

Well, they grew … and grew … and grew, thriving on complete neglect. I have harvested about 100 of them (the others [...]