permaculture, chooks & stuff in the Samford Valley (Queensland)
Posted in recipes, vegetables on Oct 24th, 2009
Anyone that has grown zucchinis will know that, there comes a certain time in late Spring or early Summer, when without really noticing, you all of a sudden, have your very own zucchini mountain.
There is a joke about people quietly leaving zucchinis on neighbours’ doorsteps in the dead of night, just to get rid of [...]
Posted in pests, vegetables on Oct 10th, 2009
The Grosse Lisse are producing big time right now, although I have been losing quite a few to the Tomato Grub.
I think the tomato plants dried out while we were away and so became a little stressed and vulnerable to attack. Although some grubs were already in evidence, by the time we got home, there [...]
Posted in organics, vegetables on Sep 20th, 2009
Ok…I’m going to lay my cards…err….well, carrots on the table.
I have just grown carrots for the first time….and I harvested most of them today and a motley bunch they were.
You name it….bifurcated….splitting….bent…. I had a carrot to fit the bill.
There were a few good looking individuals amongst the scraggly crowd…unfortunately even they fell down at [...]
Posted in organics, vegetables on Sep 4th, 2009
Posted in organics, vegetables on Aug 19th, 2009
In late June I wrote a little post entitled ‘Not a bug in sight’, where I rather smugly described how easy it was to grow vegetables in the Brisbane winter.
Not long after, the much feared Zucchini Gang descended upon my patch and things around here changed dramatically for the worse.
While the gang are not actually [...]
Posted in vegetables, weeds on Jul 25th, 2009
It was a good day today – I finally got to start putting one of those rash eBay purchases (that I’m occasionally guilty of) to good use. I’m talking about a few hundred second hand retaining wall blocks – seemed like a great idea at the time!
This morning my wife muttered something about the fridge [...]
Posted in permaculture plants, vegetables on Jul 22nd, 2009
I’m sure we must have some cool windy days ahead of us here in Brisbane this Winter, but you wouldn’t know it today…Spring is almost in the air.
So it was fortuitous that a special parcel arrived today from Green Harvest.
After discussion with my wife the other day, I ordered a large selection of seeds and [...]
Posted in vegetables on Jul 4th, 2009
OK – maybe that’s a touch dramatic. The cold winter winds have arrived in Brisbane and suddenly growing vegetables ain’t quite so easy.
I’ve had a simple little plan of planting a new zucchini or two every month, so that we can have a constant supply all year round (we can do that in Brisbane).
That simple [...]
Posted in permaculture plants, vegetables on Jun 25th, 2009
….and not because I nuked them all.
I am beginning to discover the joys of vegetable gardening in the Brisbane winter – warm midday sun (21 Celsius yesterday) and no little critters around wanting to munch into a nearly ripe tomato….that is if I had a nearly ripe tomato…anyway, you get the idea.
Today’s post is a [...]
Posted in chickens, vegetables on Jun 23rd, 2009
I built a chook house (chicken coop) for the ‘girls’ recently and it remains still un-named. As most of you that have backyard chickens would know, it is kind of compulsory for the coop to:
1. have a name
2. for that name to have a chicken theme and be extremely corny.
Names already used for other poultry [...]
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