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Naranjilla for our garden.
A slightly overpriced, but ever so tasty, naranjilla. They go by the much more marketable name of ‘the golden fruit of the Andes’ now. This fruit is easy to grow, yeilds plenty, shades a good area and has little thorns on the leaves. A multipurpose plant indeed!
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Free mushrooms!
Volunteer mushrooms popping up in the straw mulch during an unseasonably wet spell. I’m not sure what they are, but it shows that mychorrizae are growing, and that just may be the most important thing in the world.
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Salami
Can I go vegetarian and still have my salami too? That’s the big question in my life at the moment. I can do without factory farmed, industrially processed meats, but love home made preserved meats so much.
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Native Oxalis in a pot!
Our little native Oxalis has a small tuber and bulbs that you can eat. This type of Oxalis loves to grow along with other plants in pots. Some varieties like to grow in lawns.
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Rubbish.
This bugs me. Vandals set fire to plastic rubbish bins when they are put out at night. The bins cost the owners a small fortune to replace, not to mention the toxic smoke from burning plastic and rubbish and, of course, visual polltion
Ligaya Garden
a little garden near Gawler
