Postcard:World Naked Gardening Day
World Naked Gardening Day is here....
Never enough.
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Please advise how to grow garlic
Dear All,
Would anyone please give me some advice regarding growing garlic at backyard garden? Where can I find the seed, which is suitable for local climate and what is the time to plant them? Thank you in advance.
Cheers,
Joe
Read more…bean fly attacking young bean plants?
Hi everyone, new here, and hoping for a successful winter bean crop with a little help from your good selves.
I'm successful with snake beans in the last two summers. Winter beans, notsomuch. The problem I only recently diagnosed: bean fly.
I've plan
Read more…Keen to try this variety
You know how it is. You go to the local IGA for some milk and you leave with an unusual variety of seeds that you've never heard of.
We eat a lot of eggplant and I seem to have great success with them (fingers crossed). I'll wait a few more weeks a
Read more…Pandemic gardening: a guide for Autumn planting in SEQ.
Robyn Francis -- one of the matriarchs of Permaculture in this country -- has made available this great resource for free download.
Robyn writes:
With so many people rushing to get a garden growing to Pandemic-proof their lives, I’ve prepared this pl
Read more…KUMBARTCHO NURSERY DURING THE PANDEMIC
To all the wonderful supporters of Kumbartcho, as of 2pm 20th March
2020 the Environment Centre at Kumbartcho closed as a preventative
measure to minimize visitors exposure to the Coronavirus.
HOWEVER THE GROUNDS AND THE NURSERY ARE STILL OPEN AND
Taking the opportunity to plan & plant
This weekend, I was supposed to be heading to Bali. Obviously I'm not. So, rather than let the time go to waste, I'm getting organised to the months ahead. We were also supposed to be going to Japan in May, but that's a post for another day.
I was al
Read more…THIS IS AN INTERESTING CONTRAPTION
While looking around on that Utube site, I found this interesting contraption. The yanks do everything in a big way. I wonder what this machine costs.
Our son has a vacuum sealer that he uses for meat etc. This may be adapted to do a similar job.
Read more…We have our 2nd wicking bed ready to go
Finally (finally!), we have completed preparations of other parts of the garden which meant we could have a load of soil delivered. Our wicking beds are made from reclaimed hardwood sleepers and fence palings, lined with reclaimed carpet, new builder
Read more…A solution to cut extreme heat by up to 6 degrees is in our own backyards
The largest temperature reductions were in the hottest suburbs and those further away from the coast. These significant reductions were mostly achieved thanks to backyard trees.
So this benefit that urban trees provide has two key aspects:
maximum
Egg Plant recipe
Andy and Roz,
Here is the recipe I promised to send about 2 months ago. I only ever make the stacks 2 slices high.
For those who seek yeomany and want more land to urban farm
We had been asking around for at least a quarter acre of land we could take on as a Vetiver nursery extension. To rent, like agistment.
And we were successful:
- Width: 20.3 meters wide .
Length: 93.8 meters
0.48 acres/1957 sq metres
All good for us
Read more…Growing Raspberries in Brisbane
So here’s the scenario: our builder showed up with a heap of gifted produce as well as some tomato plants, a pigeon pea plant and a pot with some raspberry canes. The canes look a bit sad at present but he tells me that’s because his chooks have been
Read more…Cypress Hill pomegranate plants - cutting grown
Hi all,
I have three "Cypress Hill" pomegranate plants to give away. I have really struggled to find information on the variety online, but that's what it was labelled at the (random) nursery I bought the first one at.
I've picked my first fruit this
Read more…Bad Eggs can cause salmonella -- like recent outbreak in VIC backyard chickens
I've been washing my eggs...and that's wrong.
- Families with small flocks of backyard chickens need to be aware of safe handling practices to minimise the chances of becoming sick
- The Department of Health and Human Services and Agriculture Victoria a
Vegetable and Fruit Storage: Reusable Produce & String Bags
For the last year or so I've been a keen user of mesh plastic reusable produce bags.
As fruit and veg storage systems go, these draw string bags are the best I've used.
I take them shopping with me and don't use the plastic bags supplied for selected
Read more…What To Sow In The Subtropical Autumn? ... by Jerry Coleby-Williams
What food plants can be sown or planted in the subtropical autumn? Autumn can be tricky because crops and pests are responding to our warming climate. Australian summers now last one month longer and winter has correspondingly shrunk. With meteorolog
Read more…The best of the YouTube gardeners?
I am, more and more impressed with some of the generic gardeners offering tips and tricks on YouTube. I likem their POVs.
My favs are:
What are your favourite YouTube gardeners? Aside from ou
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