1stop Organic Gardening

Just a quick post here to let anyone in South Australia know about a gorgeous garden I had the privilege of visiting recently. It’s at the Jacob Creek Retreat in the Barossa Valley. The great news is that they are having an open garden weekend this weekend coming - that is Saturday 8th and Sunday […]

Filed under: Herbs, Uncategorized on November 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »

My mum’s been away travelling around Australia, through the desert mostly, during our winter. Now to say my mum’s not a gardener is a bit of an understatement, but she might read this - so I better leave it at that.
When she got back I offered to help her with a few of the fruit […]

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

Here’s a photo of an area of our organic garden that we haven’t used previously. We have terrible soil and have had to bring in soil and build raised beds to have any success with growing our organic veggies.
Our soil is non-wetting, sandy soil. In fact it’s just like beach sand, without the shells. The […]

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

I’ve alway thought that having chickens is a great advantage to any organic gardening /permaculture system. I mean they provide you with eggs, meat (if you’re that way inclined), chicks if you have a rooster, fertilizer - and they eat bugs and weeds if you’ve got somewhere for them to forage.
Trouble is, they can eat […]

Filed under: Uncategorized, chickens on September 28th, 2008 | No Comments »

We’ve had some glorious spring weather here in South Australia this past week or so.
Some lovely warm spring days and a couple of wintery, windy days too. Today was just perfect for being out in the garden.
We’ve decided to sell some produce at our local farmers market (Barossa Farmer’s Market) and are gearing up for […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on September 17th, 2008 | No Comments »

If you want more plants for your organic garden, then propagating from your own plants or other people’s plants can quickly increase how many plants you have.
There are a few different ways to propagate plants. Dividing them is probably the easiest way to create more plants, but not all plants can be divided. For instance, […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on September 6th, 2008 | No Comments »

Now that spring is here and the sun is daring to warm our earth here in South Australia, it’s time to start tidying up my organic garden so I can make a fresh start for the new growing season.
We haven’t seen much of the sun of late, but the past few days have been gorgeous […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on September 3rd, 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 got […]

Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on August 30th, 2008 | No Comments »

There are quite a few ways I go about improving the soil of my organic garden. Growing legumes happens to be one of the easiest ways to add some nitrogen to the garden, while also getting to eat some of the harvest.
I’ve just pulled up my latest lot of snow peas and took a photo […]

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

What a gorgeous plant. Yes, I mean both to look at and the flavour… it’s divine! It’s a recent discovery of mine. I don’t know why I had never heard of it until recently, but I’m so glad that it’s part of my organic garden now. Perhaps I should say part of my collection of […]

Filed under: Herbs, Uncategorized on August 15th, 2008 | No Comments »