Robin will give a brief PowerPoint slide show titled ‘Wealthy Communities’ which showcases co-operative and community strategies that support the creation of real wealth. Robin’s primary passion is interactive group work and creative learning so, to complete the evening, you’ll get to experience an activity that will support teamwork and the deepening of connections and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
Wealthy communities & the Permaculture Biz
Posted in Local issues, tagged community gardens, gardening, permaculture on May 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Carrots!
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged carrots, gardening, winter on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Luckily I had a second pair of eyes looking through the garden today. The carrots have been growing for some time, but I’d thought that the relatively small amount of greenery above ground meant the carrots still needed time below ground. How wrong I was. Scraping away the soil around the base of the leaves, [...]
Growing our own mushrooms
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged gardening, mushrooms on July 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Today I planted our first mushrooms. It’s so easy, you don’t even have to be a gardener to do it You can buy a kit like this one, which comes with everything you need and a set of instructions (we bought our kit from Bunnings). Inside, you’ll find a packet of mushroom compost and a [...]
Our current crop of greens
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged broccoli, broccolini, gardening, snow peas, sugar snap peas, winter on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is what we harvested from the garden over the last few days. There are four or five good handfuls of sugar snap peas and snow peas, plus a few modest heads of broccoli and broccolini. The broccoli is just coming into its own, so I expect we’ll have quite a lot of this over [...]
All broccoli, all the time
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, broccoli, cauliflower, gardening, seeds, winter on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I took a two-pronged approach when planting out in Autumn. I bought punnets of dwarf cauliflower, planting out two rows of seedlings. I then supplemented this with two rows of broccoli, planted from seed. At least, that was the plan. As you can see from the picture above, this is broccoli, not cauliflower. In fact, [...]
Helping out back in Chippendale
Posted in Local issues, tagged chippendale, gardening, myrtle st, nature strip on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I headed back to our old stomping ground to help out Michael Mobbs garden the nature strip along Myrtle St. A small but committed group turned up, and we cleaned up one side of the street, including planting a few more citrus trees. If you feel like you missed out, you can still help [...]
Beginner’s mistake: pruning the sugar snap peas too late
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged gardening, pruning, snow peas, sugar snap peas, winter on July 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As I’ve consistently highlighted, I’m making this up as I go, having never had the opportunity to have a real garden before. Of course, that’s the fun of it. One lesson now learnt: don’t wait until the sugar snap peas grow to the top of the frame before tip-pruning them. The result is that they [...]
Companion planting made easy-ish
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged companion planting, gardening on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The wonderful Little House in the Suburbs blog has shared three posts on companion planting: Part 1 – covers the rule “Too many members of the same family shouldn’t be seated together.” Part 2 – covers the rule “Hatfields and McCoys must be kept across the room from each other.” Part 3 – covers the [...]
Potatoes in the ground
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged gardening, potatoes, winter on June 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of the things that I really wanted to try in our first year of gardening was potatoes. So I placed an order with Diggers Club, and six (long!) weeks later I had: 8 x Kipfler seed potatoes 8 x King Edward seed potatoes 8 x Desiree seed potatoes Now, on reading the notes that [...]
The harvesting has begun
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged gardening, harvesting, kale, silverbeet, snow peas, spinach, winter on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The obvious milestone for starting a new vege garden is the first harvest, straight from the garden to the plate. While everything grew rapidly during autumn, the cold snap over the last week has definitely slowed things up. Still, this was a good week for home-grown food: Last Sunday: a handful of tuscan kale, sauteed [...]
