1stop Organic Gardening

I walked past my organic veggie garden a day or two ago on my way to feed the chooks, and to my horror my 30cm tall (12 inches) broad beans were all bent over. I was mortified! Then I took in the surrounding landscape…. misty, very cold, crunching sound as I walked… yes, there was […]

Filed under: chickens, vegetables on July 31st, 2008 | No Comments »

This doesn’t have anything to do with organic gardening, but I just had to show you the tenacity of some plants. Take a look at this photo below of a really old geranium plant “growing” (more like hanging on by a thread) in a very decrepit half wine barrel.

This is how we found it when […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on July 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

Here’s an updated photo of the lettuce we’re growing in our poly tunnel, taken late this afternoon. They’re looking great, even though they are growing quite slowly for lettuce grown by this method (nutrient film technology).

I’ve read that some commercial growers can have lettuce grow to saleable size within 4 to 5 weeks. Pretty impressive… […]

Filed under: vegetables on July 23rd, 2008 | 2 Comments »

If you’ve read a few of my posts, you’ll have already worked out that I really love herbs. I mean, they are just such wonderful and versatile plants. They have so many gorgeous scents and flavours and there’s one for just about everything that ails you.
But it’s not just people that can benefit from […]

Filed under: Herbs, chickens on July 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »

When you’ve been organic gardening for a few seasons or more your soil will become more and more nutrient rich and teeming with micro organisms. That is providing you keep adding organic material to you vegetable garden. Otherwise you will quickly deplete your soil of it’s goodness and create nutrient deficiencies.

You can see in this […]

Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on July 19th, 2008 | No Comments »

If you’re new to organic gardening, you may start to panic as winter sets in and you see some of your herbs starting to dissappear! But please don’t worry too much.
You see, some herbs die back during winter. The leaves may wither and die, but the bulk of the plant which is underground will be […]

Filed under: Herbs on July 16th, 2008 | No Comments »

Well, OK - this was my second Saturday at the Barossa Farmer’s Market, but I forgot the camera last week in all the excitement.
So it’s been two weekends now and I’m really enjoying the buzzing atmosphere, the delicious smell of coffee and hot breakfasts and the vast array of produce from the other stall holders. […]

Filed under: Herbs, Uncategorized on July 13th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Well it’s winter here now in the Barossa Valley. Today it rained most of the day and it was very cold - very cold for us that is. It was 6°C in hubby’s shed this afternoon. This is a photo I snapped out of the window of the car the other day. It’s a vineyard […]

Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on July 7th, 2008 | No Comments »

I’ve just read about foods that block fat absortsion. And do you know what? Most of them are found in the veggie garden and orchard. Of course if you grow your own grains, you’ve got pretty much all of them covered.
So do you want to see the list (alphabetically listed)?
Apples
Apricots
Artichokes
Avocados
Barley
Beans
Berries
Broccoli
Brown Rice
Brussels Sprouts
Bulgar
Carrots
Cereals
Corn
Figs
Flaxseed
Kiwi fruit
Melons
Mushrooms
Nuts
Oats
Okra
Oranges
Parsnips
Pears
Peas
Potatoes
Prunes
Pumpkins
Raisins
Rhubarb
Sweet Potatoes
Tropical […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on July 4th, 2008 | No Comments »

I’ve been propagating herbs from my organic garden for the past four months or so, leading up to my first market day at the Barossa Farmer’s Market - which is this Saturday, July 5th. Here’s a photo of some of the herbs I’ll have available on a regular basis.

I have grown them on in our […]

Filed under: Herbs, Uncategorized on July 1st, 2008 | No Comments »