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• Micro is growing
  on Jan 22, 2011 in barbie's garden home page features miscellaneous lemoen duifie lemon dove
  Day 10 :   These last three days Micro is showing signs of becoming a fully fledged dove, in fact a Lemon Dove (Columba larvata) AKA: Cinnamon Dove or Forest Dove – we known it as a lemoen duifie. She sits on my shoulder after I’ve fed her...
• Roma Tomatoes
  on Jan 22, 2011 in barbie's garden gardening home page features roma tomato tomato
  My tomato plants are looking fantastic! I took the last photograph a week ago and look how they have grown. I can’t wait for them to mature. I bought a few Italian tomatoes from the grocer today, but they are not as tasty as the ones you pick from...
• Ants
  on Jan 22, 2011 in bugs christine's garden gardening home page features ants
  Ants, Ants Ants … they are everywhere in my garden at the moment … I thought I had got the main “nest” about 10 days ago and today I discovered another one on the other side of the house. So I spent my precious “gardenin...
• Plectranthus ‘Mona Lavender’ flowering
  on Jan 21, 2011 in christine's garden gardening home page features mona lavender perennials plectranthus
  “Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.” – From The Koran I work in my garden because I love to watch my plants grow. There are two things which really make me forget about the problems of the world – If...
• Sweet Basil beginnings
  on Jan 20, 2011 in barbie's garden gardening home page features basil culinary herb sweet basil
  Had a busy day away from the garden, so I’ll have to do a walk-about tomorrow and give you an up date! I mentioned that I have a seedling tray full of sweet basil amd roma tomato shots and that I’ll be transplanting them to larger, indivi...
• Fruits in my Garden
  on Jan 19, 2011 in barbie's garden gardening home page features figs fruit trees quince
  We are patiently waiting for the figs to ripen. I made green fig preserve for the first time 3 weeks ago and made 1,5kg worth of figs in syrup. They are really nice – for a first try – but the syrup is too runny. I’ll blog about that recipe nex...
• Baby Dove is doing well
  on Jan 19, 2011 in barbie's garden home page features miscellaneous baby dove
  Day 6 & 7 Micro, our little baby dove survivor, is part of the family now! She whistles in the morning like someone whistles for attention – so very cute. Hannes is making sure she gets all the flying practice in – we don’t want her to be p...
• Mildew on Lavender
  on Jan 19, 2011 in bugs christine's garden gardening home page features lavender mildew powdery mildew
  Now that I think I’ve identified what’s going on with one of my Lavender plants, I’ve been trying to research it online. And I’m not finding much. Doing a search for “Mildew on Lavender” doesn’t bring many re...
• Alyssum in little pots
  on Jan 19, 2011 in annuals christine's garden gardening alyssum pots
  Just before Christmas, Stefani (my daughter for those who don’t know) talked me into buying this crate with the little pots in it for the garden. It’s been sitting around for a month now “waiting” for me to plant something in...
• Unusual Planters
  on Jan 18, 2011 in christine's garden design home page features miscellaneous boats planters
  I love creative gardening – you know, when people do creative things in their gardens with plants and planting vessels. Like these two old boats filled with vegetable plants and the other with Nasturtiums. A friend of mine was in the little fis...

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