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All vaxed up and no where to go! What is to be done? Vetiver and green Tea
All vaxed up and nowhere to go!I'm therefore sentenced to potting around outback. Mind you, I gotta make a list of what is to be done?Otherwise, I won't build a head of steam and I need to last to the end of the week outdoors, outback, quarantined at home...And such gardening weather! The botanicals call to me like over sexed bulls.So each day I attend to WITBD --…See More
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- I grow vegetables on what was sand along the shores of Moreton Bay.After years of mulching I have a rich loam to work with and plenty of earth worm helpers.
I also run a Vetiver Grass nursery.
- I am interested in:
- Vegetables.Vetiver grass. Various cuisines and the plants they make use of -- especially Turkish, Mexican, Caribbean, Korean and Sri Lankan.
- I can offer (you can't offer too much or too little - we don't mind)
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- http://www.growvetiver.com/
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All vaxed up and no where to go! What is to be done? Vetiver and green Tea
Posted on August 3, 2021 at 17:00 2 Comments 1 Favorite
All vaxed up and nowhere to go!
I'm therefore sentenced to potting around outback. Mind you, I gotta make a list of what is to be done?
Otherwise, I won't build a head of steam and I need to last to the end of the week outdoors, outback, quarantined at home...
And such gardening weather!…
ContinueMaking Grow Bags with Double Decker Milk Crates to Grow Tubers
Posted on July 3, 2021 at 19:00 7 Comments 3 Favorites
I have a milk crate LEGO garden where I grow my herbs.
It works a treat.
Since I wanted to explore the grow bag experience for growing tubers -- especially Sweet Potatoes -- I've tweaked the milk crate + weedmat system to engineer a deeper soil trough to accommodate underground tuber development.
Here's the DIY.…
Using plastic weedmat as mulch for growing vegetables in the Kitchen Garden
Posted on June 9, 2021 at 20:00 13 Comments 2 Favorites
Last time we blog-interacted I was talking up the pleasures of cardboard as a garden mulch. As of today it looks something like this:
It offers a certain rustic charm as the fibres begin their rotting journey.
Sentenced…
ContinueUsing Cardboard as Garden Mulch.
Posted on May 23, 2021 at 19:30 6 Comments 1 Favorite
I may be a registered member of the Mulch Supporters Club but I never understood the Permaculture fetish for wet paper.
More trouble than it's worth.
Laying out the beds at the Vetiver plantation sure enamoured me to cardboard as a mulch understory and now it looks like I'm addicted.
Cardboard, after all, is mashed up wood chips...and it's available any and everywhere. More so, in fact, than newspaper.
So I started using cardboard keenly and experimentally in the…
ContinueDesigning Garden Bed layout using Vetiver Grass Clumps
Posted on May 1, 2021 at 22:00 2 Comments 0 Favorites
This is the layout/design I'm experimenting with.
I actually mix up the food plants rather than block plant, but they…
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Comment Wall (18 comments)
- At 22:34 on February 13, 2021,
Janey said…
Aw what a shame - but you can’t beat the tide- probably even with a rock wall...our beach lost a lot of sand this year too. It’s been exactly one year now since we planted our 100 tiny vetiver plants and they have grown so quickly and made a huge difference to soil- lots of worms wherever we dig and they grow 6 inches a week, - so make lots of mulch! Also stops grass from invading new beds and keeps dogs off!
- At 21:53 on February 8, 2021,
Hey Dave the vetiver I got from you for my sandy garden at Straddie are going great guns, I even had enough now to give some to a neighbour and spend the word about wonderful vetiver!
- At 18:38 on March 28, 2020,
Susan said…
Hey Dave, I use "after photo" - it's free but with ads.
- At 9:11 on March 27, 2019,
Dianne Caswell said…
And you probably could do that to Dave.
- At 10:37 on February 2, 2019,
Oh, and I forgot how good his jokes are too????
- At 8:29 on February 2, 2019,
Love the Updated Profile and Avatar, you really have a gift Dave, you are an inspiration to all our Members I am sure. Could I say to all if you are a newer member please take the time to read through some of Dave's Blogs etc I promise you that you will gain a different prospective on how Sand can become Humus. Be sure to read about how Dave has inspired Children to garden at his local school, and his Cooking and Recipes skills have gone from strength to strength.
- At 15:37 on February 23, 2016,
- Thanks for friend request.
- At 12:06 on January 10, 2015,
Thanks Dave for your recipes ,will you be going to lissas garden visit as I can give you those brazillian spinach if not will bring them over for you cheers
- At 16:52 on December 21, 2014,
Hi Dave havent forgotten you caught up with work .will get them over to you in the new year sometime hope you have a good xmass
- At 8:32 on December 16, 2014,
Hi mate leave us an address at darren_and_deb@hotmail.com and I will get them over to you
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Vetiver grass helps to stabilise soil and protects it against erosion. It can protect against pests and weeds. Vetiver is also used as animal feed. (Wiki.)
GrowVetiver is a plant nursery run by Dave & Keir Riley that harvests and grows Vetiver grass for local community applications and use. It is based in Beachmere, just north of Brisbane, Australia.
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