Now thats the colour we love!!
Tamarillos getting close to ripe…

Figs!
There were only two there when I put the bags on to protect them from birds eating them…

This is an experiment… I got the kids paddling pools for mixing soil for the dozen new blueberry plants, but after I’d finsiehd that they were just sitting around doing nothing. Then I had a brain wave: peas grow well in cooler time of year, and as a plant they are Nitrogen fixing… So I now have four paddling pools full of peas (& one full of kumara) and when they finish, I’ll dig them in and use the soil for my tomato plants next Spring!

Its funny how much we take things for granted. As a kid my Dad always planted a massive strip of peas on the side of an entire paddock… So whenever we wanted peas for dinner, us kids would go pick them… And while you pick you also eat lots of them raw, which is really the best way… But when Satoko was over staying on holiday, she saw a bag of frozen peas I had in the freezer, and was like ‘What are they???’ – she had never had peas before! But hey, I’d never eaten Edamame until I went to Japan…