Tag: Gardening
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A virtual desert!
Anyone who knows our place will know that our garden is bare….you can see the house from the street and all the summer trellis stand empty. Well, it’s all relative – we probably still have more food growing than a small suburb, but compared to the lush growth from a long summer with plenty of…
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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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Sunny days
A burst of sunny weather with temperatures between 35C and 47C on our front porch, following a few days of really torrential rain has seen the garden going crazy! This sunflower is our pride and joy at the moment, not just for its beautiful flower, but for the fact that it’s 2.3 metres tall! Jelina…
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Off to Joe’s
You’ll definitely need a seat if your going to the Open Day. There’s so much to see![/caption]Off to Joe’s Connected Garden at Elizabeth today. We popped in yesterday as we were right next door, but today I have been asked to do an edible weeds talk and walk. It should be good fun. The gardens…
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Its been a while and a lot’s happened
Ive been really slack in keeping the blog running consistently. The wife asked me NOT to post every little thing we did to make the house sustainable and to get a really amazing garden going. We went from this… To this… and finally to this… All in about 16 months! A compromise…
