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07 Nov 2009Silverbeet recipes Silverbeet Harvesting and Pool gardenI have been harvesting silverbeet for months now. The bloody things just keep producing. I also may have planted too many silverbeet – but beet/chard and cabbages are the only things that survived the snail onslaught of September. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m even get...17°C / 63°F
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07 Nov 2009Endless miles of black poly pipeI’ve been reticulating. And reticulating and reticulating and reticulating. I only have a quarter acre block, with only about a third of it (deliberately) growing plants of any kind. It seems quite mad that I could possibly have spent so much time and energy on reticulation. I have opted ...Overcast 16°C / 61°F
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15 Jun 2009Plants 1 potatoes Sprouting and Pool gardenPotatoes are sprouting, calloo callay. I’ve never grown potatoes before. They are very pretty plants.8°C / 46°F
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14 Jun 2009New veggie beds Pool gardenLast week, my beloved and I constructed the first of the new veggie beds in the pool garden. We had the leftover sleepers from constructing the new pool retaining wall and fence for edging and purchased a trailer load of good soil from my favourite permaculture / soil place down the road. Belove...8°C / 46°F
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22 Mar 2009Pond rehab 2 1 Pool gardenSunday was the day of pond rehabilitation. Not for any particular reason, simply because I woke up that morning and the leaking pond had finally annoyed me enough to do something about it. Luckily, the leak had taken care of all of the water, so all that was remaining in the pond was the overgro...Sunny 24°C / 75°F
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14 Feb 2009The evilness of slaters.I mulched the rose and geranium garden in mid-January with some purchased pea straw. It’s been pretty good stuff, in that the tomatoes and the capsicum have been growing brilliantly well, despite the run of hot days and no rain we had for ages. But over the last week, one of the tomato pl...Sunny 25°C / 77°F
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26 Jan 2009Mulching 1 Orchard gardenToday, the straw bale experiment met its planned end as mulch for the fruit trees. I’ve done this much later than expected, so everything needed a really solid water before the mulch went down. Pulling apart the straw bales was very instructive. Some parts of the bale had done exactly as ...Overcast 22°C / 72°F
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06 Jan 2009Molested by frog! 2 1 Pool gardenOr at least, a frog brushed up against me while I was having a quiet read in the pool, to which I responded with a mighty shriek and immediately vertically and horizontally relocating myself. I moved so quickly that the frog was completely unbothered by the sudden commotion. I found the frog squ...Sunny 35°C / 95°F
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31 Dec 2008Harvest Red onion Harvesting and Rose & Geraniums gardenHave been pulling these out for the last few weeks. The ones in the sunniest spots first and just pulled the last ones today. I’ve been eating them in omelette, curry, raw in salad etc, etc. Nommy nom noms.Sunny 29°C / 84°F
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31 Dec 2008Harvest garlic Harvesting and Rose & Geraniums gardenHave been pulling garlic out for the past fortnight. Omnomnomnom. Delicious.Sunny 29°C / 84°F
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