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Chelsea Pickering
Naturopath | Nutritionist | Gardener
Natural Medicine to help you to grow better health
Kid's health & nutrition
IBS, SIBO & digestive issues

14/01/2022

My first echinacea flower from this plant. Can you 👀 the 2 little photo bombers?

I planted this from seed, along with 2 others, in Spring 2020. Echinacea originates from parts of North America where the winters often have snowfalls.

To increase germination rates, it is recommended to place seeds in the fridge for 2-3 months to mimic that natural cold dormant period, and to then plant out in the springtime.

10/01/2022

My beautiful basket of Mulberry leaves I harvested today.

The second photo is the before photo, and a result of my reaction from when a decent sized 🕷 ran out of the basket & halfway up my forearm 😬😬

It was a slow process picking up each leaf & shaking it before putting it back in the basket 😆

09/01/2022

One of our little garden friends parked himself right outside the back door today, much to everyone's delight.

All the rain has had them singing with delight these past few weeks. Today's warm day though has meant he's spent the day moving from leaf to leaf trying to stay in shade.

29/11/2021

L A T E N I G H T B A N A N A H A R V E S T

The bats realised before we did that the bananas had ripened. Thankfully we heard them in the tree outside the lounge window before they damaged the lot, but we still lost about 30.

At least for the next week, everytime the kids say 'I'm hungry' I'll be ready with an answer... 🍌🍌🍌

27/11/2021

S A T U R D A Y I N T H E G A R D E N

1. The first of the Coastal Peach almost ripe and ready to eat.

2. Three headed lilium - the first one to flower this season.

3. Bleeding ❤ vine in flower. We've had it for three years & it's really struggled. We moved it three months ago & it is now one happy little vine, flowering for the first time.

4. 'If I can't see you, you can't see me': One of this year's baby Blueys playing hide & seek in the same way toddlers do 😆

5. Striking bromeliad in flower.

6. Natural pest control. Golden Orb spider in the corn patch 🕸

7. The first of the fijoa fruit forming, plus there's a second flush of flowers currently starting.

8. The Stevia almost ready for its second harvest this season.

9. Even weeds hold great beauty if you care to look 🐞

10. Self sown Calendula patch.

26/11/2021

E L D E R F L O W E R

I've been watching this flower head bloom over the past week. Yesterday I decided it needed one more day to fully open, and of course today it was windy and a lot of the flowers got blown off.

Thankfully the pumpkin leaves below caught them for me, and I was able to harvest them anyway🙂

25/10/2021

My sweet mini sunflowers, making me very happy indeed
🌻🥰

16/10/2021

Our beautiful Hoya showing off it's spectacular flowers 🥰

29/09/2021

What's the safest & most effective pest control in the garden....?

Kids!! 😂

These 2 are exceptional pest hunters, and often come to show me their latest finds.
This haul was achieved in only 20 minutes, at night, with a spotlight each!

They're also a little enterprising with this skill of theirs.

It cost Grandma $2 each.

Pop helps them negotiate their payment based on their haul. In this case, Grandma was clearly very happy with the results!

27/09/2021

The first Ginkgo leaves emerging.

It's been a journey with this little tree.

When I first bought it I planted it in a corner on its own, which caused me to neglect watering it, and unsurprisingly it promptly died.

A little while later it made a remarkable return to life, so I moved it to a different space where I would give it better care, which seemingly gave it shock & caused it to die... again.

A few months later it again miraculously started coming back to life, and it was at this point I realised that after 14 years living in SE Qld, I'd forgotten all about deciduous trees 🤦‍♀️😆

24/06/2021

Can you name this fruit?

It is sometimes called egg-fruit due to it having a meaty texture similar to that of the yolk of a hard boiled egg.

The flavour though is far different. It has a sweet earthy taste to it. That is, when you first taste it you don't immediately realise it's sweet. You notice the texture first, & then all of a sudden you realise that what you're eating is actually very yummy.

We harvested all the top fruit today with the ladder before the bats realise it's ripe. Most of it was ready for harvesting, the rest will ripen inside. The fruit at the bottom of the tree we left to ripen on the tree as we can keep an eye on that.

The name of the fruit is in the comments to see if you could guess right 😊

21/06/2021

Our first bean harvest of the season.

Plus a pak choi that needed saving from the bugs.

Made for a very lovely side dish with dinner tonight.

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