Tag: vegetables
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Oka progress report
I haven’t had much luck growing Oka (Oxalis tuberosa also known as New Zealand Yams) in the past. It’s either been eaten by dogs (Charlie and Bronson both enjoyed digging them up and eating. Bless you boys, wherever you are), rotted from too much moisture or shrivelled from the opposite). This year I thought I’d give…
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Planting time!
We’ll, I’ve finally got time to scratch myself, so it’s a good time to get some seeds started. I’m not that lucky with seeds but always give it a go. There’s everything in this pile, from lawn daisies (which I recently found to be quite tasty) to that perennial permaculture favourite, Pigeon peas. I try…
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Vote for Keeley!
Yates are running a search for Australia’s Next Top Gardener and our friend, Keeley Mann is having a shot. Keeley is the daughter of Megan Mann who runs Red Ochre Farm, an organic farming project at Krondorf in the Barossa Valley. Hopefully, I’ll be chatting with Megan soon for one of our interview spots. I…
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Where’s the weeds?
A passerby yesterday said my our garden would look great if we could get rid of the weeds! They pointed at this section…I can’t see any weeds here…
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Aquaponics Sweet Potatoes
Jelina is happy! We cleaned out the aquaponics last week and boy, did that Sweet Potato make a mess of things! So why is Jelina happy? It’s because we harvested more than 2 kg of crunchy little purple tubers. They’re kind of like little carrots. As you can see from the pic above, there is…
