I usually make several compost piles through the summer, when ingredients are most available and they mature fastest.
I’m running out of room! Already! This Cavallo Nero is occupying the spot where I want to plant this baby button squash.
Leafy greens this time of year are hard.
With carrots, I stick to very fast baby carrots this time of year.
Paw paw and citrus flavours go so well together, and luckily I have the last citrus of the season – late mandarins and pomelos – still picking.
After all the drought years of the last decade, We have just recently spent a small fortune lining our dams so we have water security.…
I have chickweed (Stellaria media) going beserk in my garden right now. It is edible – lots of vitamins and minerals and not too bad an addition to a salad. But that uses at most a cupful, and I have a wheelbarrowful. But for those of you with chickens, look out for this herb. It’s a low growing tangle of stems with bright green soft-crisp leaves and tiny white flowers,…
These are the seedlings I potted on last leafy planting day, the seed that I planted the leafy planting day before, way back in mid winter. It is now eight weeks since the seed went in, seven weeks since they germinated. In another three or four weeks, they will be ready to start harvesting. So for more than half their life, they have not used up or needed any garden…
Just over a month ago now (a week or so late), I planted this season’s seed potatoes. They are already up to the stage where they need hilling up, so this morning, before work (dressed very inappropriately in skirt and stockings) I tipped a couple of buckets of compost around them. Job done.
We’ve just harvested the first of the coffee beans for the season, and now begins the slightly laborious process of processing them.