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The summer garden is finally kicking into full gea

The summer garden is finally kicking into full gear. After a slow start to the season I have been busy harvesting the early fruit - figs, apricots and peaches - and the first tomatoes and cucumbers. It is cooler and wetter, which I welcome wholeheartedly after two intense years of summer drought.
I like to interplant the garden beds with lots of summer flowers along with the vegetable plants. Dahlias are one of my favourite easy care flowers - I don’t bother digging up the tubers (as recommended) for the winter and they are always the first hibernating flowers to break through the soil in spring. Sadly dahlias only last a few days in a vase. Although, this is not a huge issue as I have, ahem, planted quite a lot of them over the years so have a regular rotation on the table. What are your favourite summer flowers?

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Happy new year my foodie friends 💜 How are you?

Happy new year my foodie friends 💜
How are you? Gosh, there is a lot going on in the world atm. I feel very lucky and grateful to be enjoying a mostly normal summer here in NZ (with some overseas whānau missing). I realise this isn’t the case for many others around the world and hope some ease will come in 2021.
My 8yo son made this cake to celebrate the New Year, yes a few days late, but he made it (mostly) by himself. I am loving watching my children catching the cooking bug, there is certainly some truth to the saying ‘“the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”.
For the cake base he used the Chocolate Beetroot Mudcake from my Homegrown Kitchen cookbook swapping mashed banana for the beetroot. Then he made his own lemon icing (a bit runny🙃) to write the words - with a bit of assistance. I was initially a little sceptical about lemon icing with chocolate ganache but it was quite delicious - he’s got good taste!

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Wishing you all safe and happy holidays ahead ✨

Today I share the final recipe in my festive serie

The bees sure love blue borage. You only need to p

The bees sure love blue borage. You only need to plant borage once and it will keep self seeding for years to come. It is one of the favourite wildlings because it invites the bees in close to pollinate the garden. I purposely let the self germinated seedlings grow in the garden beds, or nearby, so the bees will pop over to check out the vegetables too (and fruit trees).
And once the plant is spent it is also makes excellent mulch as the hollow limbs breakdown easily into the garden or compost. Mind you, remember to use gloves when removing borage because it is somewhat prickly. ⁠
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