The October vegie patch is pretty dam exciting with seedling raising in full swing and crops boosting away in the warming soil and air. Do your best to keep your head and don’t rush into planting summer loving crops on the first fine day! Its hard, I know, but wait it out until soil temperatures […]
September In The Vegie Patch + Greenhouse
By | LastUpdated September 1, 2024
Septembers plate is refreshingly green: saladings, celery, parsley, cress, silverbeet, kale, nettle, broccoli shoots for Africa, the last of the cabbage and – joy oh joy the first of the asparagus. There’s so much cool stuff to do in the garden right now, so much prettiness, you want to be out there every spare moment. […]
September Fruit Tree To-do List
By | LastUpdated September 1, 2024
The story of your fruit harvest starts now – in the rising of the sap and the swelling of the buds. It’s a tale told by the bees, as they go blossom to blossom; then taken up by a fruit that evades rats, possums, wind and rain. It’s a cycle, that if unbroken, creates baskets […]
August Fruit Tree to-do List
By | LastUpdated August 1, 2024
Here come the early plums! Gorgeous times ahead as fruit trees wake from their winter slumber. As the carbs start to flow, I swear the trees get a glow on. Cross your fingers the weather aligns and keep your eye on the prize because boom! from swelling bud to that first slither of pink to […]
