A home-made bucket worm-farm costs next to nothing to set-up, takes next to no time to run and yet it turns your food-scraps into gold, aka worm-castings. Worm-castings are good-for-everything! For sick plants, for strong seedlings, for tired soil – it’s no exaggeration to say that they have super powers. Team them with your homemade […]
February in the Vegie Patch, Simple Soil Revivers + Summer Pruning
By 1 Comment | LastUpdated February 1, 2025
In a perfect world, our soils don’t end up hungry and tired at the end of summer, but often they are. Hey, it happens – life happens! So this month I have simple solutions to get you back into production. Regularly checking in with your soils is the difference, make this your new, best habit. […]
How to Grow Basil
By | LastUpdated January 1, 2025
Basil is a queen, and needs to be treated just so – her tolerance for anything other than perfect is low and if you dish it out she’ll let you know with fungus-y foliage, black streaks, pale leaves, tough leaves, poor growth or by rushing off to seed. All of these are easily prevented when […]
January In The Vegie Patch + Autumn Crops A Go
By | LastUpdated January 1, 2025
January is all about extending our summer crops so as to create a lovely continuity. Successional planting is the proper name. I call it “little and often”, and it’s the key to never going hungry because it keeps your garden in steady production. And though most of us are only just starting to eat tomatoes, […]
Preparing New Vegie Beds
By | LastUpdated January 2, 2025
There are two parts to this: first up I’ll show you how to work out the most efficient shape for your bed (fyi not necessarily a rectangle and defo not a square!), and then we get down to the business of getting it ready for cropping. In my huge relatively flat vegie patch, new beds […]
January Fruit Tree To Do List
By | LastUpdated January 1, 2025
One of the most important tasks this month, is to check in on newly planted fruit trees. Check the soil beneath the mulch, and if its dry give it a lovely slow watering. Slow is best so the water soaks in, rather than running off. Then top up the mulch if its thinning out. Simply […]
