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 […]
I’m a big fan of eating weeds. But first, what even is a weed? A common description is that it’s simply a plant in the wrong place – meaning us humans don’t want it there as it may be compromising the ecological integrity of that place or crowding other plants we want to thrive. But […]
As I have a large garden and the luxury of space, I don’t usually make time to experiment with growing food in tight spaces. But I’ve always been curious about growing food from scraps. So I made the time – thank you curiosity. I saved some scraps from going straight into the compost bin and […]
Hello Dear Friends, I have two bits of exciting news to share with you, which can be summed up with Costa’s (host of Gardening Australia) gorgeous smile below… After being a guest presenter on Gardening Australia since 2019, I recently became an official permanent member of their team. Oh the joy!!! This is very exciting […]
We’ve just wrapped up our third Home Harvest. It was so good that I’m sharing it with you here. But first, what even is it?? Funded by the City of Hobart and supported by Eat Well Tasmania and Sustainable Living Tasmania, Home Harvest is a one day self guided edible garden tour around the nipaluna/Hobart […]
We’re happy to announce we’re working with Eat Well Tasmania and Sustainable Living Tasmania to hold our third annual “Home Harvest” garden tour in the 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 Saturday March 5th, 2022 in and around Hobart where […]
If you’re looking to start keeping chickens, or are wanting to tweak and refine your current system, this video is for you. I’ve summarised just six hacks which will transform you and your chicken’s lives and included some more links to other highly useful things you can do in the resources list at the end […]
Is there any companion plants that you would use to fill up the garden bed?
Hi Hannah…..What happens when they want to go to seed?
I have had some lovely Cavolo Nero (Tuscan kale) ‘palm trees’ but in the spring they bolted.
Cheers Jill
Make Dutch “Boerenkool” cooking and mashing shredded Kale in with potatoes then add bacon pieces, jus and/or rookworst from Ziggies in Moonah or Salamanca Fresh.
You can of course use your own meat substitutes for flavour too.
I wonder, what happens when the kale begins to flower and set seed? Does the plant continue to produce eatable leaves or does kale have the problem spinach does, and when doing that, make bitter leaves.
You don’t mention do these tolerate colder weather, and if so how do they react? I’m in the central United States and our Winters can get quite cold.
Thanks for the video.
Love the video Hannah, the kale trees look beautiful in a very ‘Tim Burton’ sort of way!
Quick question, how do you stop them from going to seed/flower? Here in Sydney mine are bolting with the warmer weather. Cheers, Michel
Hey lovely Hannah, can you please comment on what to do when it’s going to seed?
Pick out the seedy heads? Or let it go?
I am thinning my kale forest at the moment, deciding which will get to be trees.
🙂 Michelle