I have been gardening growing produce for two years and what an enduring passion it is. I love soil, compost, my worm farm, plants, seeds and working in my garden everyday with my doggie hanging around looking interested. Newspaper, shredded documents and letters, pea straw, lucerne and sugar cane mulch are like dessert for the garden. I get a bit stiff and achey but I wouldn't quit for quids. My pumpkins, cucumbers, tomatoes, capsicums, silver beet, herbs and flowers are satisfying but even more is my growing connection with all things natural. It's as though I can feel every tree and flower and blade of grass and merge with them. Do you experience this too?
My succulent arrangement I photographed on a milk crate - looks Oriental, doesn't it?!
Pumpkin takeover!
Just having visited Israel (January 2015) I missed the daily fresh salads and grew the ingredients and made my own.
I grew up in a very cultured, urbane and intellectual family. We shared a love of history, politics, literature and art. Now in my 60s I'm immersing myself in the world of nature and gardening which had been an enduring but relatively neglected area of my younger adult life while I enjoyed teaching literature and creative writing, presenting music on radio and travelling the world - pursuing my cultural passions with joyous satisfaction. Now I am passionate as I learn, read, write, plant, grow veggies and flowers, walk and stroll in pursuit of my love of nature, (while still writing, broadcasting and travelling).
My garden gave birth to these offspring whose umbilical chords have been cut.
Yana found the bowl and I have planted in a succulent for her birthday.
Green tomatoes to ripen indoors and for green tomato relish.
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