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Crumbly Bokashi goodness

The last Bokashi dog poo digester was full yesterday, It is time to pull up the first and see if our theory works. The good new is that it does! Even over winter, the action of anaerobic bacteria, followed by worms and other soil critters, turned a 20 litre bucket of dog poo and Bokashi…

Parsley

A kitchen helper that can help the doctor too! Parsley (Petroselinum sativum) is a well known kitchen herb that has useful medicinal properties. Both the flat leaved and the curled leaved (P. crispum) varieties can be used for the same purposes. The whole of the Parsley plant can be used, root, leaf and seed. Seeds…

Mints

Mints are a confusing, promiscuous lot, readily hybridizing and taking over our gardens. There are many cultivars that change the look of the species slightly, yours may have slightly differently coloured flowers or leaves than those described here, but the main features will be, essentially , the same. They have great medicinal and culinary properties…

Joe’s on the phone book

Wednesday was a great day. Our friends at Joe’s Connected Garden have been chosen to be on the cover of the new phone book! Joe and Roseanne invited a few friends to be in the background, only to have more turn up than were needed… The pic is of those select few who were photogenic…

Here’s a list of our perrenial plants…

Here’s a list of our perennial plants. There’s more than I thought! Trees Almond Apple Avocado Boxthorn Blood Orange Bush Lemon Cherry Cumquat Curry Leaf Tree Coffee Elder Feijoa Fig (Brown Turkey) Fig (White Genoa) Fig (White Adriatic) Finger Lime Ginko biloba Guava (Strawberry) Guava (Hawaiin Cream) Guava (Mexican Cream) Irish Strawberry Tree Japanese Raisin…