I know it's been a busy season lately with a lot of prep work going on around the world for new planting as well as harvesting.
We have only got one tiny little planter box and a few potted plants now that we tend but even in that small space we've been able to get an immense amount of satisfaction and pleasure from the few plants that we are growing.
Our little apple tree loved the transplant into it's bigger pot and some new soil. It's been putting out new shoots in clumps and is looking so much healthier than a couple months ago. I'm hoping that it will go from strength to strength. We'll see what is does as we're in autumn now and I think it may start slowing down now. Shame, it's had a rather rough few years and tolerated three vastly different climates.
The little Strawberry plant that I was concerned might not make the transplant surprised me and has produced two sets of new leaves. I think we might have got lucky with this one. LL is over the moon with excitment to have her own strawberry plant and counts the new shoots every time we are outside (in between pinching off some basil leaves and munching them).
The last time that we visited the storage unit I made a point of collecting the last few pea seeds that we had and we put those into the planter box too. They were old and hadn't been stored properly so only two of them have come up, but that's still two plants that we didn't have last month, I call that winning (albeit on a small scale lol)!
Today I was reminded of these little ones needing something to climb up while reading a post by 
I didn't have the best thread to use but this cotton yarn will have to do for now. It should provide enough climbing support for a season and I have a massive ball of it so if a section needs replacing it shouldn't be hard to do. I'm hoping this criss cross pattern will be enough to get these peas going. I have another two of these wooden trellises in the storage unit. I'm thinking of making an additional pair of planter boxes that we can maybe grow some extra things in but I'm still undecided on this.
We currently have many sweet basil plants at the front and although these are meant to be annuals, they just seem to keep on going. We've been adding their deliciousness to various pasta dishes and the aroma when you pick them is divine.
The little tomato plant has been producing the cutest cherry sized fruit. They don't actually turn red, they go dark yellow to orange when ripe so I've dubbed them good idea tomatoes - they look like little turned on light bulbs when they are ready to eat. Lory eats them straight off the plant, they don't even make it indoors.
The Frangipani succulent that I rescued from the ground in Oudtshoorn that had been knocked off the tree by the landlady's worker has thanked me for the save by putting out a whole crest of leaves. This was one of my mom's favourite plants of all time. I don't know how many Frangipani plants I gave her through the years, but the joy she would derive from seeing them in full flower is an image that will stay with me forever.
And for the super observant peeps reading this - YES those are apples in the planter box and pot. I now chuck our green waste straight into here as well as egg shells. I know it may seem wrong to be feeding an apple tree with deceased fruit of it's cousin, but it doesn't seem to mind at all.
