Surviving the Frizzle Weather
Summer is a much harder gardening season than winter in Australia. Most years there’s a set of frizzle days sometime over the summer – days when the temperature is up around 40ºC for a few days in a...
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41 Degrees (106)
It is tipped to reach 41°C today. That’s 106°F for those of you in USA. My garden will suffer. There is no way out of that. There’s not much in the way of human food plants that are adapted to...
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Pak Choi Three Ways
We ate all the outside leaves of the young pak choi, mostly in won tons but also in soups and stir fries. Then I left them to flower and the tiny, stingless native bees feasted on the flowers, giving...
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Simple Things
Like these little origami seed packets, taught to me by Morag Gamble from Our Permaculture Life. Such a pleasure chopping up junk mail and turning it into these, and it makes sharing seed so barrier...
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Maybe I Should. Should I?
I posted this in August 2016. I did. I started something new and big. And here it is, July 2020, four years later, and finally the something new, and, as it turned out very big, is about to be born. I...
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It starts with a basket of greens …
The silver beet was getting smashed for a few weeks, I think by cluster caterpillars, then suddenly it wasn’t. It looked so gorgeous this morning, and the patch needed thinning. And the basket just...
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Goodbye Brassicas, it’s been fun.
But the cabbage moths have arrived, and I think that’s about the end for this year. We’ve had a good three months of harvesting broccolini, cauliflowers, kale, pak choi, napa cabbage, mustard. I still...
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Lizards and Slugs
Usually I leave the slugs to the bluetongue. I’d hate to starve him (or her) into deciding to live somewhere else. But he’s a bit too well fed, and I’m not. The carrots were a lovely patch of green...
View ArticleIn Praise of Craftsmanship
Every year in my community, as part of our winter solstice celebrations, we have a gift giving ritual. We draw names out of a hat six weeks earlier, and hand make a gift. This year, Garry drew me and...
View ArticleGreens for the neighbours
I try not to do gluts. With the new, tiny garden area sequencing has become even more important - 60cm trellised row of snow peas each month, no more or I will run out of room to plant before the end...
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