A Summer Harvest

This is a post about the summer harvest we are currently witnessing. While winter is a time of scarcity, summer is a time of plenty, as everything tries to grow as fast as it can before the fall comes. I too wanted a part of this, so a few months ago I planted my own herb garden (with the help of Robin). I also planted a jalapeño plant and four pimentos.

The herb garden, including italian parsley, sage, thyme, tarragon, rosemary, mint and basil. I did have chervil but it was attacked by aphids :(

The pimento's ripening.

The jalapeños... mmm tasty.

Along with this, Robin has had a bountiful harvest of tomatoes, assorted chilis (seen above) as well as garden peas, beetroot and herbs.

Along with our harvest, we have been frequenting the farmers market only a short bike ride down the road. Corn is in season, as well as assorted beans, onions and more beetroot.

One of the best things about summer here is the local fruit, including berries, peaches and apples that were picked in the morning fresh, and sold in the afternoon.

Nothing better!

Hot weather

We have been having some pretty hot weather over here. It has also been humid. Those from Brisbane would probably doub that given there is no ocean here, but remember, most of around here is swamp!! The difference is also that there is no afternoon sea breeze, and the sun goes down around 8:45pm so it stays hot and humid really late. This was yesterday's maximum map. We had 96 top. Of course the temps are in F not C. To give some indications of the relationship:
104 - 40
100 - 37.8
96 - 35.6
92 - 33.3
88 - 31.1
84 - 28.9
80 - 26.7
76 - 24.4
72 - 22.2
68 - 20

To compare, these were the max temps in Australia yesterday.

Thank goodness for airconditioning!