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Creative Commons

To give some protection to the intellectual property of folks who contribute to this blog, we’ve decided to slap some Creative Commons symbols all over it. Here’s a bit from Wikipedia that explains what those three symbols to the right mean… “Attribution (BY) Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative…

Summer garden walk

Here’s a super quick walk around the garden while we have a sunny patch… It’s only brief…

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…