I can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve made the time to post – but there’s so much to do in my organic garden in spring. Yes, spring has arrived here in South Australia. And not a moment too soon I say. I’ve had enough of winter…. brrr One of the many little jobs [...]
Filed under: vegetables on October 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a follow-up on how my broad (fava) beans are doing, original post here. We get some frost here in the Barossa Valley – but not all that many. Broad beans seem to suffer a little with the frost. The top growth wilts over and it can look pretty bad first thing in the [...]
Filed under: vegetables on September 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
We’re so lucky here in South Australia, with our temperate climate… hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. It means we can grow quite a variety of fruits and vegetables and always have something ready to eat from the organic garden. Here’s a photo from a couple of days ago of my organic garden. It’s [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on August 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s a few photos showing how easy it is to grow a few salad greens in a container that you can bring indoors if the weather turns cold. I grew this container during summer, but you can grow lettuce and other salad greens in cooler weather too, it just takes longer. Start with a decent [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on August 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
OK… I thought I’d given my peas enough support. But there you go – you might think you’ve done something well, but Mother Nature can make you think again sometimes! I put in two start-droppers and ran some wire mesh between them. This would probably have been enough support, but my peas did grow quite [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on August 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
Filed under: vegetables on July 23rd, 2008 | 2 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 [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on July 19th, 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 »
Companion planting is one system that many organic gardeners use to help keep plants healthy and reduce pest problems by working with nature. Growing different types of plants close together often confuses pests, so that they don’t find your great row of carrots, say, and munch all the way through the row to the end [...]
Filed under: companion planting, vegetables on June 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
