The Colour Purple

This summer we've been blessed with purple abundance. Our grinadella plant, now in its second year of bearing fruit has gone wild! At one point between 1 and 6 grinadellas were falling off the bush per day! They made stunning sweet and fragrant gifts for friends and family and towards the end of summer I finally stopped giving them away to enjoy the fruits of my labour!

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Then came the brinjal (eggplant - the one pictured below is our very first one harvested). Mom donated two plants to me (along with loads of other plants) after the body corporate at her home told her that she could no longer have a veggie patch :( Amazingly, the plants survived and THRIVED! We harvested so many that I lost count and it has been an incredible journey learning about this veg and experimenting in the kitchen with new dishes. It is more versatile than you would think and even my hubby took to it! (Thank you Mom!)

Out of the two olive trees we planted approx two years ago, only one decided it was happy and remained (the other was relocated to my brother's house) . As you can see below, it also bore fruit in numbers this summer. Last summer (its first), it only produced one or two small olives. This summer it produced 54 big juicy olives! (yes, I counted, and just look at how big these babies are!)