I’m now four weeks into the part-time Winter Permaculture Design Certificate course being run in Sydney by Milkwood Permaculture. In addition to the course material itself, Nick and Kristen bring along a great library of books to browse through during the breaks. One that caught my eye was Create an Oasis with Grey Water by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garden’
A different approach to grey water
Posted in Renovating the house, Saving the environment, tagged branched drains, drains, garden, grey water on June 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Garden snapshot: summer 2010
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged garden, snapshot, summer on February 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve had a few comments from blog readers asking for a view of the whole vege garden. So here it is! As mentioned in earlier posts, all our vege gardening happens at the front of the house, as this is where the sun is. It also makes great use of the odd triangle of land [...]
Lemons, limes and oranges
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, citrus, garden, lemons, limes, oranges, trees on May 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The last major task for the front garden this season was getting in the citrus trees. Two weekends ago, I started by marking out a garden bed 5.5m x 1.2m, and then dug that down to a depth of a foot-and-a-half (a back-breaking job!). I then constructed a treated pine frame to build the bed [...]
Cabbages are bedded in
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, garden, vegetables on April 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m excited by the rows of cabbages, both chinese and western. They should provide quite a crop!
Autumn planting: round two
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, garden, vegetables on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now that all four garden beds are in place, I could plant out the bottom two beds: Snow peas Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Savoy King Onions, red Onions, white Broccoli, Gamblers (from seed) Broccoli, Bambino (a single plant) Cauliflower, baby white (Since I’ve left it a bit late, I’ve planted out all these from punnets rather [...]
Peas are growing strongly
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged garden, vegetables on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s amazing to see the sugar snap peas add about a centimetre of height every day.
Autumn planting: an addition
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, garden, vegetables on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There was a small gap in my second bed, so I planted red pak choy seeds. Amazingly, these sprouted in only two days, and are growing strongly.
Planting our bay tree in the nature strip
Posted in Growing our own food, Guerrilla gardening, tagged bay tree, garden, guerilla gardening, nature strip, tree on April 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’ve had a bay tree for 3+ years, and it’s been happily growing on my balcony in the old unit. Without full sun, it was getting a bit scrawny, but it nonetheless provided plenty of bay leaves for cooking. With the move to Lewisham, the time was right to give it a proper home in [...]
Autumn planting: round one
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, garden, gardening, vegetables on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having got the first two garden beds in place, I’ve planted out the following: Sugar snap peas Five colour silverbeet Spinach, Bloomsdale Kale, Tuscan Black Spring onion (seed tape) Baby carrots (seed tape) (All of these were planted from seed, most from packet, two using seed tape.) I’ve also got a few of my kitchen [...]
Three more waiting to go in
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged garden, garden beds on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having planted one garden bed, there are still three more waiting to go in, tucked away in the back garden. A veritable flotilla of garden beds!
