Yesterday, the 4th Sat of the month, the first Farmers market of the year for Bathurst, i thought you'd like to tag along, not a lot of chat needed
Beautiful fuschias, but too expensive for me.
Chinese foods, we're lucky like that. a Chinese family from Cowra, they are recent arrivals, i think refugees.
mostly native plants, i've bought hundreds from Judy.
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and what i bought from him. Has anyone had any experience of edible chrysanthemum? he had some but couldn't tell me much about it. i didn't get any, this time but maybe next time i will?
Beautiful fuschias, but too expensive for me.
Chinese foods, we're lucky like that. a Chinese family from Cowra, they are recent arrivals, i think refugees. 
mostly native plants, i've bought hundreds from Judy.
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and what i bought from him. Has anyone had any experience of edible chrysanthemum? he had some but couldn't tell me much about it. i didn't get any, this time but maybe next time i will?
Oh thank you for sharing that! I haven't tried edible chrysanthemum but I've looked at the seed too. I bought sugar snaps too. This year I'm fencing them so the dogs can't get to them!
ReplyDeleteI went to our farmers market this morning and bought some lovely fruit and veg. It looks similar to yours not surprisingly! The gladioli are gorgeous. Instead of the Chinese we have big veggie stalls from the local Hmong community :)
ReplyDeletehi Deb, i did it for you as i remembered you wanted to visit the FMs.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland_chrysanthemum
http://www.evergreenseeds.com/garchrysshin.html
see above links for edible chrysanthemums
that's funny about the dogs, don't they just love peas. charlie insists on being given a pea when we're out in the vegie garden.
Sarah yes i remember the Hmong stalls, very fresh vegies. but we have home made cooked food which you can re-heat at home, black sticky rice, Vietnamese spring rolls, radish cake........
ReplyDeleteHow lovely to toodle around your market via your pix while I am swathed in grey & rain & cold over here. I'd give an arm for a tableful of those native plants, please! I do have my Borlotti's to look forward to and I see you bought a "dwarf" version. How dwarf...as in 3 feet/1 meter?
ReplyDeleteInteresting pictures of the FM; many things the same we have, and some really exotic ones. We have something like the Seedsavers her too, very important work.
ReplyDeleteChristi, the native plant stand is one of my favourites, most of the plants there have been propagated from local varieties, true indigenous plants.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how dwarf the borlottis are, there are no instructions. i'm guessing about a foot, 30cm.
Ulla glad you enjoyed it, i can see who the gardeners are here by your responses.
When we're on holiday in France we visit some great markets selling local produce. Lots of lovely vegetables, wine, fresh baked bread and gorgeous cheeses. That's just naming a few things they sell. Gosh, my mouth is watering as I type!
ReplyDeleteBathurst farmers market looks great too!
Of course, you know that I love the glads the most! It's wonderful to see the colour and hustle of the market. Lots of choices in the summer. We have choices too, but right now they're in our grocery stores and the produce is from many different countries. Local is the best though, but I'll just need to wait a while for that.
ReplyDeletecan't get over how huge and healthy those veges look. thanks for sharing your experience.
ReplyDeleteI love a walk around a market! Thanks for the pictures.
ReplyDeletehow i love those farmermarkets. Would be nice to walk there with you Kaite..........
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WOW what beautiful tables full of freshly grown produce and local too ::))
ReplyDeleteI do love a good farmers market
We'll have to really start frequenting our local market next summer...I think that's when we might miss our garden.
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