permaculture, chooks & stuff in the Samford Valley (Queensland)
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
Just a simple thing….. finding an unusual frog while digging up potatoes this afternoon.
Still a little pleasure, that I surely wouldn’t have been able to enjoy had I been using any toxic sprays in the vegetable garden.
My first thought was that it was a baby cane toad, however although it was somewhat toad-like, it had [...]
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 organics on Aug 12th, 2009
While living in Adelaide twenty years ago, I attended a series of evening organic gardening classes given by Peter Bennett.
I think that it is safe to say that Peter is widely regarded as one of leading proponents of organic gardening in Australia. While attending his classes, Peter often spoke of the virtues of Eokomit, a [...]
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