Posted in Garden, tagged sustainable living, compost, vegetables, fruit, sheet mulching, indigenous flora, local food, bush tucker on 20 April 2008 | 8 Comments »
Every home needs a garden especially a kitchen garden
– Nada at Grandiflora
I’ve been having so much fun in my garden preparing the winter planting.
Over summer I didn’t have as much success with my vegies as I’d hoped. I planted tomatoes too late (November) and although the bushes grew big and lush, the tomato crop [...]
Posted in Perth, tagged compost, Garden, mulch, Perth, vegetables, watering, Weather on 14 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
In November I planted Romano beans which are a dwarf bush bean. They’re an heirloom variety I got from The Diggers Club. I had a bumper crop of tasty green beans for a week or so in December and then extremely hot weather hit during the Christmas week and my bean plants didn’t make [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged compost, Garden, herbs, hybrids, seed saving, vegetables on 28 November 2007 | 7 Comments »
This summer I’m going to make sure I collect seed from all the vegetables I grow so I can do it all again next year. I’ve just got to remember to save them from the vegetables I eat in their entirety, like tomatoes and beans. I’ve always collected seed from marigolds, sunflowers, parsley and basil [...]
Posted in Perth, indigenous flora, invasive species, tagged compost, fruit, Garden, herbs, mulch, Perth, Swan Coastal Plain, vegetables, watering on 14 November 2007 | 5 Comments »
In time for this spring’s planting of summer vegetables I increased my growing space by converting some of the lawn, bought heirloom and organic seeds from The Diggers Club and planned out my beds in advance. The planning was a novelty and some of the plans got changed along the way, but the planning is [...]
Posted in Australia, Perth, tagged carbon emissions, compost, cooking, Food, fossil fuel dependence, fruit, Garden, greenhouse gas emissions, herbs, Lazyst, organic, Perth, sustainable living, vegetables on 14 September 2007 | 5 Comments »
Although I have a vegetable garden, I only have a small area. Apart from herbs, I buy most of what I eat. The growing area is getting larger and I just got lots of seeds from the The Diggers Club. This summer my garden should go crazy.
Until recently I bought all my fruit and vegies [...]
Posted in Consumption, tagged compost, earthworms, Family, Garden, sustainable living on 29 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
In my family, August is the birthday month. My mum, my two brothers and I all have our birthdays in August. This means I’ve recently been trying to figure out presents that aren’t a waste of money or resources. I used to buy “gift shop” presents for my friends and family. Fortunately I realised a [...]
Posted in dogs, tagged compost, earthworms, Family, Lazyst, Recycling, sustainable living, vermiculture on 10 August 2007 | 2 Comments »
I really can’t be a compost snob anymore because I now have a worm farm, complete with wiggly earthworms. They look just the same as the earthworms in my compost bin, but I’m assured they’re not. My dad informed me that I couldn’t just leave them; I had to look after them. Does he [...]
Posted in books, cats, dogs, invasive species, tagged anaerobic bacteria, compost, correction, earthworms, Family, Garden, Lazyst, mesophilic bacteria, Recycling, thermophilic bacteria, vermiculture on 5 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
After writing about earthworms and composting the other week, I read Composting: from organic waste to black gold by Victoria Heywood (Penguin, 2005) and found out I got some things wrong. I thought I’d better correct my mistakes.
I’ve always thought that composting and vermiculture were completely different. I knew in the back of my mind [...]
Posted in books, extinction, invasive species, tagged compost, earthworms, Garden, Recycling, thermophilic bacteria, vermiculture on 26 July 2007 | 7 Comments »
Update: More details on Giant Gippsland Earthworms are here.
Update: I made some mistakes here and corrected them in this post.
Earthworms are the natural recycling factory. Charles Darwin said
Earthworms are nature’s ploughshare.
My garden and compost bin are full of earthworms, which I love, but paradoxically I don’t usually like animals or plants that were introduced to an area by [...]
Posted in Perth, tagged compost, Energy, Garden, government, House, Perth, Recycling, waste on 24 June 2007 | 5 Comments »
Doing the right thing here means more than recycling; it means rethinking, and so reshaping, the place we want to be.
– John Vella, 2006, “Trailertrashed” Island no.107
My local council has only one bin into which we put everything and it’s sorted into recyclables and landfill, at the Atlas Materials Recovery Facility. The City of Stirling [...]
"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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