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The Many Seedlings of Summer
It just occurred to me that despite not much going on the garden, there is in fact, heaps going on in the garden. Summer has hit Melbourne after what seemed like an endless cold and rainy Autumn. Today...
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Visiting a hillside Backyard Permaculture in Hobart…
Originally posted on Milkwood: homesteading skills for city & country: This place! These people! Recently I was lucky enough to hang out at Good Life Permaculture’s HQ, based in a backyard in the...
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Spider and the Grape Vine
I’m sure spidey did a great job keeping off the aphids and other little bugs from the grape vine. But for the possum/s that came and ate my almost ready to eat grapes, alas poor spidey – my poor friend...
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Tamarillo – 5 Reasons Why You Need a Year Round Tomato
It’s a Fruit – It’s a Vegetable. Whatever I’m surprised that Solanum betaceum (Tamarillo), does not feature more often in permaculture systems. They are a fast growing small tree with good drought...
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The Fig Tree Vending Machine
Hungry? Just grab it! You see how it works, just like a vending machine. Sure it’s only working a few weeks a year, but nature doesn’t work on our timetable. She does it when ever she bloody well...
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Tree following – April 2014
A full week of rain in Melbourne marked the transition from an Indian Summer wannabe to Autumn proper. It felt like the soil itself let out a welcome sigh of relief, as a contestant drizzle eventually...
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Broadbean Seedling
This broadbean seedling was growing too close to some garlic so needed to move it. I was surprised by how vigorous the root system was so wanted to share this with you. See how those little grains of...
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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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