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24 Oct 2009yummy 1 Silverbeet Harvesting32°C / 90°F
I’m not usually keen on Silverbeet, in that I’ll eat it as a last resort. But harvesting the Silverbeet in the last few weeks has demonstrated that I do like Silverbeet. The plants are keeping up – just.
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24 Oct 2009coming along Leeks Established32°C / 90°F
I will probably start harvesting these soon. Once they get to about the thickness of my thumb they are nice in about anything that requires a bit of shallot or onion. Besides, there are over a 100 in the gardens somewhere.
The leeks were planted in worm compost from my worm factory. I noticed tha...
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24 Oct 2009blooming again Rose 'Kentucky Derby' Blooming and Rose garden32°C / 90°F
Not sure why I didn’t have a photograph of this rose. It is one of the most prolific in producing flowers and the most scented.
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24 Oct 2009thriving Ivy Geranium Flowering and Tiny Orchard gardenThe ivy geraniums are thriving. It’s amazing what a little more water and fertiliser will do. They are getting the run off from the leeks that I planted in the middle of the citrus trees. Ethel came by yesterday and asked me how many colours I had seen. I said that there was a lot more whit...32°C / 90°F
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24 Oct 2009first bloom 1 Rose garden and Rose 'Holtermann’s Gold' Blooming21°C / 70°F
The first bloom is magnificent, especially the yellow (Holtermann’s Gold).
There appears to be a strong correlation between pruning hard and more bigger blooms.
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16 Sep 2009recovering from the caterpillars Kale HarvestingOvercast 16°C / 61°F
Some of the plants are recovering well from a heavy infestation of caterpillars. Now the leaves just need to compete with the tulips.
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16 Sep 2009the first 1 1 Tulip FloweringOvercast 16°C / 61°F
This is the first tulip. Hopefully it is the first of 10.
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28 Aug 2009pulled out Line gardenA couple of weeks ago I pulled out the geraniums and added them to my compost. There are plenty of these red geraniums growing on the outside of the side fence and front wall to bother with them so close to the house. Now to find some food bearing plants …13°C / 55°F
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08 Aug 2009PDC Day 3Today we were at Perth City Farm (http://www.cityfarmperth.org.au/) for day three of our Permaculture Design Course. We covered: stacking including time stacking (Masanobu Fukuoka)": guilds and guild planting": uses of plants": herbs (particular situations, colour, foliage, th...17°C / 63°F
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11 Jul 2009leaps and bounds 1 Leeks and Tiny Orchard garden16°C / 61°F
The leeks seedlings have only been in one week, but I can see they have taken as they have grown a little.
And I still have all 36!
Buzz buzz buzz!
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