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18 May 2012
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Living life on the edge (of growing seasons)!
Zucchini 'Black beauty' Mulching, Zucchini 'Black beauty' Fertilising, Zucchini 'Black beauty' Cloching, an...Cloudy 21°C / 70°FFunny how now my idea of excitement is seeing if i can grow zucchinis over winter! I think i must face the reality that i have become a gardening tragic :-) I’ve been experimenting with starting seeds inside with seed raising mix, and these zucchinis got off to a flying start. Whether or no...
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01 May 2012Compost garden
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Finally made the effort to go and check out the racecourse to see if I could find the fabled “Magic Pudding” of free horse poo that I’d heard about (sorry about the Australian literary reference for those of you overseas!). It took a little bit of driving around, but i eventuall... -
09 Feb 2012Pineapple Harvesting and Pineapple Consumed
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I finally decided to bite the bullet and harvest my pineapple…and what a disappointment! It was like eating…mmm, well…like eating nothing, really. It had no taste…whatsover. It wasn’t that it tasted bad, it literally had no taste. The texture wasn’t too bad, bu...
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28 Jan 2012Sunflower (Giant Single , Tomato (Periforme) Mulching, and Driveway garden
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Cloudy 30°C / 86°F
Slugs and i seem to be in a never-ending battle for supremacy in the garden. Just when i think i’ve managed to get on top of them, i turn my back for a little while and they are back in force. I’ve come to realise that no one method is perfect, and that the “price of peace is et...
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21 Jan 2012
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Planting out the new lemon tree
Lemon (Eureka) Pruning, Lemon (Eureka) Mulching, Lemon (Eureka) Fertilising, Lemon (Eureka) Transplanted, B...
After receiving this tree for Christmas and still in a small planter bag, i was keen to get it into the ground as soon as possible. The spot i chose was along the western boundary of our block, towards the back of the garden, so it might struggle a little bit for sun in midwinter, but there shoul...
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19 Dec 2011
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Well, the last 12 months have seen me preparing for my final anaesthetic exams, and while I managed to pass them, the time commitment needed, on top of full time work and the usual distractions (both welcome and unwelcome!) that come with having 3 young kids, meant that my garden has been sadly n...Rainy 26°C / 79°F -
13 Apr 2011Pumpkin (Queensland Blue) Harvesting, Pumpkin (Queensland Blue) Dying, and Veggie Patch garden
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Well my weird and wonderful pumpkins have finally met their end. The last 3 pumpkins would’ve benefited from a bit of extra time on the vine, but they were slowly but surely being eaten by some kind of pest (i suspect cockroaches), and i needed to get rid of the vine in order to do some muc...
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09 Apr 2011
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I know almonds are meant to flower early but this is riduculous!!!
Almond Dormant, Almond Breaking Dormancy, and Almond FloweringI bought a self-pollinating almond tree last year, and it has been living in a pot ever since, and in general going OK. In early march, when the weather was still quite warm, i noticed that it was starting to drop its leaves and form new growth buds ready for next spring. It seemed a bit early fo...
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19 Mar 2011Lemongrass Fertilising, Lemongrass (divided) Fertilising, Lemongrass (divided) Pruning, Lemongrass (divided...
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I thought it was time to rejuvenate my lemongrass so i decided to try my hand at dividing it to make some new plants. I’d heard it should be pretty easy with lemongrass so it seemed a good specimen to be my first division guinea pig. After a good soak with seasol, i pulled it out of its pot...
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05 Mar 2011Bay Tree Cuttings Growing, Bay Tree Cuttings Fertilising, Bay Tree Cuttings (divided) Growing, and Bay Tree...
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Last year i decided to try my hand at propagating my bay tree via some cuttings . Now, i knew at the time that they weren’t going to be the easiest things to grow, and sure enough it has been a bit up and down, but at last i think i have succeeded! There have been some false starts, with so...
