June 2016 Blog Posts (5)

Recovered and coming…

Hi fellow gardening loving Brisbanians.

Please show your love and support for local Brissy girl, Sarah Hamilton from Bee Yourself, I'm sure a few of you are already acquainted with her. She's doing a marvelous job for our local native stingless bees. 

We recently did a little video showing off the "ladies". Hope you enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqxdDoQB-A

Hi Everyone,

Winter is here but we wouldn't know it.  25 degree days are lovely but not seasonal.  Thankfully the gardens are still pumping out produce.   Eggplants, zucchini, Broccoli shoots and the first of the peas.

I also have capsicums still pumping on.  This is the first of Dianne's perennial caps ripened up.  I also have lots of other capsicums from the old…

Today was the first day of the rest of my life. 

To mark the occasion I market-shopped for seedlings and produce.

'Tis my big day out every fortnight.

Being on the chilly side -- finally -- my gardening preference went with a good selection of brassicas and some purple carrots. For gardening umph I purchased a heap of Mizuna seedlings which I find to be a no nonsense versatile…

Now that the rain has come -- and gone -- I guess I can have more confidence in what's a'happening in da soil.

Today's tasks are clear: plant out the seedlings I've grown from seeds and mulch the potato plants that have come up.

I dug up some purple yams…