Green Manure
A few months ago I rejoined The Diggers Club, which is an Australian supplier of heirloom seeds and plants that practises both sustainable and ethical gardening. We had a membership a few years ...
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Winter Gardens
I've spent more time in the garden this winter than previous years. There's been tidying of veggie patches, pruning of roses, controlling of dozens of weeds. While my winter garden ...
The one where I declare war… on Lemon Balm.
Lemon Balm. It’s so pretty and lush in spring. This plant is a number of years old now, but every spring it regrows and looks fantastic. I was pleased to see it also self seeds and welcomed the ...
May Gardening
The weather of the past few weeks has mostly been glorious. We’ve been out in the garden a lot trying to get some things done before winter kicks in. I’m not going to share photos of the clean up ...
From the garden
I bought myself a DSLR earlier this year. I’m still very much a beginner when it comes to taking photos with it, but I do notice the difference between them and the ones I took with the old point ...
Veggies!
More veggies; The golden nugget pumpkins were a good choice as they take up a fraction of the space that your usual spreading vine does. The corn was harvested a touch early due to a grub ...
The veggie patch
Something I find interesting is the differences between each years veggie patch. Last year corn was a raging success, this year not so. Two years ago we had a tomato forest, this year we’ll ...
In the garden
I intentionally skipped yesterday’s post. I was going to skip today’s too, but then I uploaded some photos off the camera from the garden this week and thought I’d share. I just this time of year ...
Herbs
Posting daily is getting harder and harder! I still have 16 days to go! Here’s my herb garden. How do you store your fresh herbs? I saw a novel way on Pinterest where you freeze them in ice ...