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Joys of wicking
So….Jelina wanted a raised bed for kitchen veggies, and Marlon agreed to cook with more, so it seemed a great time to make a really big wicking bed. I had enough roofing steel to make the sides of a 1.8m x 900 x 900 bed, had some 50 x 50mm square fence post cut to…
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Dad’s still growing
Dad’s continues to outperform everyone we know on the eggplant front. We bought two Lebanese eggplants for him to help get him back into gardening while Mum was very sick. He always loved his garden, having at one time bred Fuschias. Now he outdoes us every time, with a couple of kilos every week. What’s…
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Another edible addition to next year’s garden
Today’s Blackberry Nightshade (Solanum nigrum) harvest…336 juicy grams! That’s what’s left after some were squashed, some eaten, some dropped, some eaten…You get the picture. We have almost as many on the bush but they’re still green (i.e a bit toxic). Now that we’ve decided to grow it as a fruit and I’ve watched it through…
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The ‘wirgola’
We needed a quick, very cheap way to shade the Western side of the house. The afternoon summer sun gets so very hot here. We have a thermometer under the small front verandah, this is in the shade at all times, though it’s post gets the sun. It’s been as hot as 47 C some…
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Making room
We all know it’s a small garden, but it’s impossible not to experiment and try mysterious and exotic plants. Sometimes, though, there comes a time when we need to clear a little space for some more productive plants. Now that I’ve got all my theories working and have learned a lot about letting the plants…
Ligaya Garden
a little garden near Gawler
