Because of our fairly mild climate here in South Australia we can continue to plant veggies all year round. I’ve been a bit slack in my organic garden lately, but am now getting back on track.
I’ve cleared out all of the finished plants from summer, except for two different varieties of zucchini that are still […]
Filed under: vegetables on April 29th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is what we’ve been up to for the past few days. Putting up frames, digging trenches, repairing burst water lines, covering frames with felt tape etc., etc. We’ve been putting up our first poly tunnel. We want to be able to grow summer crops through winter.
On one side we intend to grow […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
If you have an organic vegetable garden, consider keeping a worm farm. Even if you live in an apartment and mostly container garden, keeping worms is a great idea. For one, you can feed your worms most of you kitchen scraps, which means that they are not going to land-fill. Secondly, they turn your waste […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 19th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s an update of the post I did recently on growing organic salad in a container. That way you can have fresh salad veggies right at your back door any time of year, even if you live in an apartment.
If it’s really cold in your area and you want fresh salad greens over winter, you […]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on April 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
Quinces are a fruit you don’t hear much of any more. There’s the odd tree at an abandoned house garden, but people just don’t seem to include them in their organic gardens. Well, I do!
I’ve just made a batch of quince jam. It’s delicious. My grandma used to make it, as well as preserved quinces, […]
Filed under: Recipes, Uncategorized on April 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s a great idea to have a space in your organic garden to grow a few aloe plants. They are fairly easy to grow and propagate as they are succulents. They grow really well in my area and any temperate zone as they are a semi-desert plant. If you live in a colder climate, […]
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Today was a perfect day to spend in my organic garden. There was a bright blue sky, with occasional whispy, white clouds passing on a just a breath of air.
I pottered around my garden for most of the afternoon. Tidying this, pulling up that… throwing bits to the chooks. My organic veggie garden’s become a […]
Filed under: companion planting, vegetables on April 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Comfrey is a wonderful herb to grow. It has multiple uses in my organic gardening “system”. Here are some of the ways I use comfrey:
I use the leaves as an activator in my compost heap
the chooks benefit from a few leaves being thrown into them to “self medicate” every now and then
The deep roots mine […]
Filed under: Herbs, chickens on April 3rd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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