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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 | 2 Comments »
I just want to show you quickly how some plants die down through winter, and then rejuvinate themselves as soon as it starts to get warmer again. Here’s a photo of my Stevia plant. Stevia’s the sweetner herb. You dry the leaves and use them as a sugar substitute. This is when I first bought [...]
Filed under: Herbs, Uncategorized on August 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on July 27th, 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 [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, vegetables on July 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
