Self Sufficient Culture

Mandy Onderwater:

Sep 4, 2025

Grandmother Goose:

I agree, they're better when red... unless they're white strawberries. Either way, properly ripe for me please.

Sep 5, 2025

Mandy Onderwater:

Ripe and sweet for me

Sep 5, 2025

Mandy Onderwater:

Just made some pea and ham soup. Took around 3 hours, and my first time ever making it. It smelled similar to my mum's, so I decided to taste it. Yeah.... I forgot I don't like ANY soup whatsoever :ROFL:

Sep 5, 2025

Mandy Onderwater:

To note, I didn't make it for myself :noproblem:

Sep 5, 2025

Grandmother Goose:

It is the 6th day of spring for Australia. Warm sunny day. I've been feeling hellishly hot off and on, more on than off, since midday and thinking it's just me being perimenopausal, and then I looked at the weather forecast for tomorrow and discovered that it is currently 31C/87.8F. It's not me. It's genuinely a hot day.

+1

Sep 6, 2025

Grandmother Goose:

In other news, I had a bare patch in the garden and decided to sprinkle a mixed handful of pollinator happy flower seeds in that spot. A few things came up, but Icelandic and/or Californian poppies dominated the area. Right in the middle of them there was a larger plant come up that I couldn't ID, had never seen it before, didn't match anything from the seed packets I'd sprinkled. I decided to let it grow up big enough that a good clear photo and the internet could help me ID it with fair accuracy.

Sep 6, 2025

Grandmother Goose:

It was rather pretty, lots of leaf growth, big leaves, almost brassica-like, with very large purple poppy flower starting to emerge (I took a peek under the bracts to see the petal colour) and was quite liking it, standing out like a feature among the smaller poppies. Alas, keeping it was not to be, for it was an opium poppy. :shock: