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 | 1 Comment »