Tiny garden delights

Tiny strawberry

It was 37C here in Sydney over the weekend. That means it’s officially summer and just like that, optimal hiking season is over. Even walks with spectacular ocean views don’t offer enough to offset the discomfort of hiking in sticky heat under a broiling sun.

But with the advent of summer, there are more exciting things happening closer to home. It’s the start of strawberry season and this year, we get to enjoy some homegrown delights, even if they are tiny. The first one was only as big as the nail on my pinky finger. Nowadays, our strawberries are a little bigger, but still only just large enough to compete with the size of my thumbnail.

Tomatoes

The tomatoes are also growing, although these are looking too big to be cherry tomatoes like the person at the farmers’ market promised me they would be. Nevertheless, it looks like I might have a good harvest this year – fingers crossed.

Chilli plant

We’re also experimenting with a chilli plant we bought at the farmers’ market. These ones are supposed to be hot, just as we like them to be, but considering that the tomatoes are either going to be full sized or giant cherries, we’ll reserve judgment until we taste them.

And finally, we have high hopes for our dwarf lime tree – it’s growing happily in its giant container, and is bearing lots of flowers, although at the moment, none of them actually look like they’ll be turning into fruit any time soon.

Dwarf lime

This post was inspired by Photo Challenge: Tiny

Some of my favourite posts on this theme include:

• Polianthus’ tiny scrumptious morsels for being just like me – too impatient to deal with the fiddly business of making tiny amuse bouches
• Yinglan’s captured in the perspective of… for sharing a serendipitous moment
• Victoria’s living small for capturing a Spanish way of life
• Cuba: tiny grains of rice for sharing how they process rice in Cuba – and for the reminder that you should always wash your rice before cooking it!
• N4Nomad’s Karen Hill Long Neck Hilltribe for the fascinating photo of the woman with the long neck