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Eating Fuchsia Fruit
So you need food to eat in your forest garden, and you are growing all the regulars – apple, pear, citrus, fig, and so on. Then your shrub level (using Patrick Whitefield’s 3 level arrangements as per...
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How to Remove Coffee Grounds from Coffee Pods
Like it wasn’t hard enough to get ‘us’ to recycle used coffee grounds already, humanity has found a way to trap those grounds in metal or plastic to make the task that little bit more impossible. Not...
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The Joy of Springtime in the Garden
There are many joys waiting in the Spring garden. The most important one for me is sitting on a log watching it all go by. There is Zen somewhere between chickens scratching at the ground and the hum...
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Can coffee grounds protect my bonsai?
I recently went to a workshop on field-growing pre-bonsai (in order to fatten up the trunks quicker). And by quicker I mean that you get the desired effect in 3-4 years instead of 8-10 years. All...
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A triple shot return to work!!
Did I need another reason to get back into the office after a 3,000 km family road trip? Well a container full of used coffee grounds just sealed the deal 😄 Tagged: coffee grounds, office, work
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Why your Summer is incomplete without figs
There is something of a tradition at my place now with freshly picked figs being scoffed in the backyard from the middle of summer. By mid January the fruit darkens a purple stain through the green...
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The Amazing Opportunitites in Coffee Pulp Recycling
Photos taken by Zach Latimore on Finca Idealista Farm, Matagalpa, Nicaragua For most people, coffee grounds represent the “end” of the coffee process. Everything that has happened to those beans since...
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The Best Kind of Peaches
What are the best kind of peaches? Imagine a tree full of them just outside your front door. They are nearly ripe, and when you finally get them off the tree to taste, they are best pieces of fruit you...
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Not Everything is a Banana
Banana In a GlassOn a hot day a banana peel will disintegrate midair on a trip to the compost heap (or to a ditch… It’s shocking that a person who would choose a banana could be the same litterbug...
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How long for a Prickly Pear to fruit?
Prickly Pear fruit is finally appearing, a few years after collecting some of the small cacti from Melbourne’s Western suburbs. Back then it seemed like another way to generate fruit in the garden...
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Are Coffee Grounds Good for Hydrangeas? A Gardener’s Guide
Hydrangeas are beloved for their stunning, color-changing blooms, which shift from pink to blue depending on soil conditions. Many gardeners look for organic ways to enrich the soil and influence...
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