I have 30 square metres of raised vegie garden beds. It’s not enough! I could make good use of double that without running into soil building or harvest distribution problems, but it’s all the space I can really spare for annuals on this little 500m2 suburban block. But by halving the amount of time a plant spends in the garden, I effectively double the garden space.
Vegetable soup on this cold wet Saturday, nearly all in season vegetables out of the garden, the pot simmering on the fire all day. Soup, at least, is comforting, as we head into yet another la Niña. A very simple recipe –
It all just boils down to sun, soil and water, and on a small, urban site, sun is the limiting factor.
When you find a crop or variety that likes your garden conditions, it makes food gardening look soooo easy. This is Green Sprouting Broccoli. I figure the yield is in the range of 50kg per plant, and our favourite way to eat it is as broccolini chips
Bountiful carrots and radishes out of the garden at the moment, which is very nice because it’s coming up to rice paper roll season, and if you have some lightly pickled carrots and radishes, an avocado and rice paper roll wrappers, you have all the ingredients for a real work or school lunch box treat. The recipe is dead simple – some julienned carrots and radishes (and you can add…
Aphids have discovered my broad beans. Best way I’ve discovered yet to deal with them is to tap the broad bean tip onto the palm of my hand, which gives me a handful of aphids easy to squash (and a handful of squashed aphids).
This is the third, and last of my three major soil building factories – the worm farm. The hardest part was getting the cast iron bathtub. It was on Gumtree as a giveaway, come and get it, bring a trailer. Beauty. What they didn’t say was that it down over the edge of the drive on a slippery muddy slope at the top of a very steep driveway with no…