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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

A Little Question.....

The candle making was a huge hit last night with my little haul of wax making a 7cm round tea light sized honey scented dream.... The only thing I'll change next time is how I rushed the cooling/setting stage of my candle making by popping my mould into the freezer... As you can see in the pic below, it caused my candle to crack... But that's only effected the aesthetic appeal as this little beauty smells like heaven in a pot when burning away on my bedroom dresser.

I've been trying to grow passion-fruit for the past 3 years here on the farm and finally this year all of my hard work has paid off.... My vine is absolutely loaded with fruit and I'm now dreaming of all the delicious passion-fruit recipes that I'll be able to create once these babies are ripe...
So here's my question..... How do I know when to pick???? Will they turn brown and wrinkle up or do I pick them green???
Have you grown passion-fruit before??? What was your favourite recipe to use you bounty of fruit up??

Spring Seed Swap?

I had big plans of sharing a late Winter garden update with you all this post, full of beautiful pictures of Wintry produce such as peas (...