Fields of Lettuce and Tomato

I was planning to blog about the field of lettuce growing in my garden, but that thesis took over and since then it’s become a field of lettuce and tomato, with lettuce getting pretty dismal and tomato in ascendency. A month ago when it was just a lettuce field, I gave one to [...]

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The Sad Tale of the Weeping Hose

This is not a sad tale because the hose wept. The hose’s function is to weep, due to the holes punctured in intervals along its length. It’s connected to the drainage hole at the bottom of my rainwater tank and on days when there’s no rain in sight, I turn it on for 20 [...]

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Summer Produce

I’ve been enjoying lots of summer produce from my garden – carrots, radish, pak choy, lettuce, onion, garlic, tomatoes, beans, strawberries, lots of herbs, and one leek. I’ve already blogged about my adventures in growing garlic. And it’s so much more pungent than shop bought. They didn’t segment because I didn’t fertilize them enough. This [...]

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Growing Garlic

Last April I planted garlic in my garden for the first time. At the time I wondered if I’d planted it too late, but it was just right. Matt a friend of Trina’s at Greenfoot recommended planting it a month or so before the cold weather starts.
My dad is my usual gardening mentor, but [...]

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Eating the Garden

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 [...]

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Growing pots

No, I’m not growing pot. I’m growing pots – or that’s what it looks like anyway.
It’s been so hot (which isn’t unusual for Perth’s summers) and my dad puts empty plastic pots on top of his smaller vegie plants during the heat of the day so they have their own little shade house. When I [...]

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Too hot for beans

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 [...]

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Saving seeds

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 [...]

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How does my garden grow?

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 [...]

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2 Fruit and 5 Veg

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 [...]

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