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jacqueline's Journal

Member since: Sep 07 | Years gardening: 2 Organic gardener

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  • 24 Oct 2009
    yummy 1 Silverbeet Harvesting
    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.
    32°C / 90°F
  • 24 Oct 2009
    coming along Leeks Established
    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...
    32°C / 90°F
  • 24 Oct 2009
    blooming again Rose 'Kentucky Derby' Blooming and Rose garden
    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.
    32°C / 90°F
  • 24 Oct 2009
    thriving Ivy Geranium Flowering and Tiny Orchard garden
    The 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
  • 24 Oct 2009
    first bloom 1 Rose garden and Rose 'Holtermann’s Gold' Blooming
    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.
    21°C / 70°F
  • 16 Sep 2009
    recovering from the caterpillars Kale Harvesting
    Some of the plants are recovering well from a heavy infestation of caterpillars. Now the leaves just need to compete with the tulips.
    Overcast 16°C / 61°F
  • 16 Sep 2009
    the first 1 1 Tulip Flowering
    This is the first tulip. Hopefully it is the first of 10.
    Overcast 16°C / 61°F
  • 28 Aug 2009
    pulled out Line garden
    A 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
  • 08 Aug 2009
    PDC Day 3
    Today 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
  • 11 Jul 2009
    leaps and bounds 1 Leeks and Tiny Orchard garden
    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!
    16°C / 61°F

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