I seem to have fallen off the blogging horse lately…well it’s time to get back on and give an update on the dam restoration project.
A month ago I posted an entry ‘there’s a dam in there somewhere’ highlighting the poor state of the dam on our property, totally overgrown with cumbungi and my plans to [...]
Category Archive for 'weeds'
asparagus in the egg bed
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 [...]
Weedy mates
Posted in weeds on Jul 15th, 2009
A month ago, I blogged about some of the weeds on our block that I’ve been able to identify so far. At the time, I did say that I was not “not that anti-weed these days”, particularly after reading Peter Andrews’ book ‘Beyond the Brink’, which helped me put their purpose in life into [...]
chicken herbatorium
Posted in chickens, permaculture plants, weeds on Jul 5th, 2009
I created quite a stir in the chicken run today – it was time to build the residents a herbatorium.
This is an idea that I must have read about somewhere in the permaculture literature, I just can’t remember where, so I don’t know who to credit.
As most of you would know, chickens left to their [...]
What weed is that?
Posted in weeds on Jun 15th, 2009
Out of respect, I thought that before I won total control over all weed species on the property, I should at least record their one time presence. So I have started to put together a photographic list of the little buggers, as a kind of tribute….
Actually, I am not that anti-weed these days.
An excellent book [...]









