Food | Shed on a One Acre Block

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Life on the one acre block is busy. Its not just the looking after the block, as in mowing and general upkeep, but rather all of the distractions. In order to get a bit of discipline in the process, we have designated Sunday as the gardening day – just as Monday is housekeeping day.

The past few weeks, we have been pruning back some of the shrubbery along the drive and in front of the house, but this week, we lifted the Sweet Potatoes. Just one patch, and just one clump produced a thick bed of vines. When the vines were pulled back, and we started lifting the tubers we hit some monsters. We have a couple of different varieties here, but this one must have been the Godzilla variety! The ‘small’ ones to the right of the photo are about the size on sale at the supermarket.

Su baked a medium sized one for dinner – in the oven, skin on. The result was delicious – crisp crunch skin like a jacket potato, rich creamy insides, with melting butter.

By way of contrast, Su has some succulents. One variety has spectacular leaves (stems?) – long and curving. It started to show signs of buds. Su watched, waiting for the flowers to bloom. But when they did, the result was somewhat underwhelming – tiny nondescript yellow flowers. But they did look pretty good in a close up photo with the macro lense.

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