Enviro cushions

I made some new environmentally-friendly cushions to go in our new extension: The linen fabric comes from Cloth in Surry Hills – they screen print their fabrics using natural ingredients. The orange & cream cushion is a redesign of Cloth’s signature wattle design. The other two cushion designs are “dhanawan” (emu feathers) and “gwibiirr” (bush [...]

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Review: The Edible Balcony

This is a *very* late review for the gardening/cook book The Edible Balcony by Indira Naidoo. I went to the launch about six months ago where we were lucky enough to try some of the food cooked from recipes in the book — the potato, pea and coriander samosas were a particular favourite Indira has [...]

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Echinacea

Our Echinacea plant has finally flowered. We planted 3 seedlings about 12 months ago, so it’s sure taken its time (admittedly that’s probably because we planted it at the wrong time of year). Although it’s in our edible garden, I don’t think there’s much we can do with it. Besides, I heard this week on [...]

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Chinese cabbage gone to seed

We planted about eight chinese cabbages, grown from seed. Most of them we ate, even if we had to fight it out with the slugs for the meals. With the warming weather, however, a number of the cabbages bolted straight to seed. No matter, a good opportunity to seed save for next year. Like broccolini, [...]

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Heartsease

Our heartsease plants have begun to flower. What is heartsease? THIS is heartsease: I wanted to grow heartsease in the herb garden to add some interest and colour. Not only that, but the flowers and leaves are edible so they fit with my self-imposed rule of only planting edible plants in the herb garden. Apparently [...]

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