Tag: Gardening
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The garden’s growing to live up to its name
Thanks to the extra rain and the overcast skies, Ligaya garden has become almost overgrown. Some readers may remember the fecundity and thickness of the greenery this time last year. A lot of that was to do with a surplus of Lab Lab beans that overgrew so much. This year, its just as thick and…
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Gary’s Christmas message
I found Gary the Yabby waving his claws around from a little space in between some big pots. He’d climbed out of his pond to say ‘Merry Christmas’! to everyone and a Happy New Year.
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Cool it! (with herbs)
It’s bloody hot here today! 40 degrees before 11.30, but thanks to a cool change, we’re no longer baking in the full sun. Last year, we discussed the cooling properties of Borage (Borago officinalis) and how it was, what is called in herbalism, an ‘refrigerant;. That means that it can cool us from the…
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New tank in the aqaponics.
Weve been doing lots of work on the aquaponics. Here’s yesterdays update!

