Tag: growyourown
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Naranjilla for our garden.
A slightly overpriced, but ever so tasty, naranjilla. They go by the much more marketable name of ‘the golden fruit of the Andes’ now. This fruit is easy to grow, yeilds plenty, shades a good area and has little thorns on the leaves. A multipurpose plant indeed!
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Open the door and eat.
Vegetable beds by the front door! Who ever heard of such a thing? These are 3 1m x 1m raised beds, 300mm deep, that I built by our front door. I was in a hurry to get vegetables in before the hot weather started, so I bought some DIY plastic beds, potting mix, compost and…
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Going for goji.
One of two Goji berry plants planted before the really hot weather starts. They are supposed to be uber nutritious, especially in the antioxidant department. Goji plants apparently need little water when established and tolerate -15°C to 40°C, making them ideal for my area.
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It’s ours!
Our own house! We finally have a mortgage on it. To celebtate, we’ve been planting. There are now 5 citrus trees along the front, this will give us a privacy hedge that will help feed us. There are lemon, orange, mandarin, blood orange and kafir lime. Behind them are apple, dwarf almond, dwarf nectarine and…
