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Since we've lived here, we've had goats for around 7 years. A solid 6 year stint with Gerty and Jilly - two toggenburgs (you can read about them here) and then a year of another batch of goats (with a goat share arrangement) which came and went a bit while we tried to...
Living in cool temperate Lutruwita/Tasmania, tropical ginger isn't something you hear of people growing often - but that doesn't mean you can't As soon as we built our greenhouse (see it here), it was one of the first crops we...
After many years of dreaming, scheming and then Anton having time to actually build it - the greenhouse of our dreams has arrived into our garden and we are in love. That little stained glass window of a chicken/bird was made by Anton's Grandmother Dorothy and has at...
As we wrap up our fifth Home Harvest edible garden trail, it's always good to pause and take a moment to reflect on the greatness that just was. Cause it was really great. I've organised countless community events and projects over the decades and I reckon this is one...
I'm a big fan of reinforcement mesh (aka reo mash) as a material to use for making simple and super strong and versatile structures for plants to grow on. I'm always keeping an eye out for scraps of the meh at our local tip shop, alas it's highly sort after. So...
Over the past few years I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with my two apricot trees as they've never really thrived. Symptoms included not fruiting well, sparse leaf and dead wood starting to appear in the canopy branches. Finally this year while we were...
How to propagate Devil’s Ivy plant
We’re happy to announce we’re working with Eat Well Tasmania and Sustainable Living Tasmania to hold our fourth annual “Home Harvest” garden tour in the nipaluna/Hobart region! Special thanks to the City of Hobart for funding this great initiative. Home Harvest is going to be a one day event on Sunday March 19th, 2023 in and around nipaluna/Hobart where […]
Hi Friends, I’m in the process of writing my second book about how to grow food in any climate in Australia (due out late 2023 with Affirm Press). As it’s covering the whole, vast country I would so very dearly love to include photos of edible gardens in different climates to show folks what’s possible […]
There are many varieties of potatoes (aka spuds) but only two key categories they all fall into. Determinate and indeterminate. Determinate potatoes don’t grow very tall and only produce spuds in one layer of soil so you don’t need to mound them. They also generally mature quicker than indeterminate types, a good thing to know […]