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, 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 [...]
"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
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