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 »
Here’s a great perennial herb to grow in your organic garden. It’s called lovage, with the botanical name Levisticum officinale. It’s like many herbs, in that it has multiple uses – in fact lovage has many, many uses.
For starters, it grows all year round in temperate climates. So you can have a celery type flavour [...]
Filed under: Herbs on September 12th, 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 morning [...]
Filed under: vegetables on September 9th, 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 »