It’s easy when its cold out, to ignore your vegie patch. I mean, plants don’t need watering at this time of year do they? The answer, my friends, is unique to your garden, and is found with your hands and eye. Keep checking in, even when its cold! Not with a glance at the greenery, […]
May In The Vegie Patch + Greenhouse
By | LastUpdated May 1, 2024
As the vegie garden missions slow down, get stuck in and make lots of compost! There’s heaps of finished summer crops/ flowers/ perennials about, providing a bounty of ingredients – make good use of it. Then when all the doing is done, segue into a bit of garden dreaming. Are you putting in new beds […]
May Fruit Tree To Do List
By | LastUpdated May 1, 2024
May is the month to get prep’d for fruit + shelter + fun tree planting. A little bit of tree research goes such a long way! Do it! As does my favourite stake + marinate, an easy, hands on way of working out what fruit tree goes where before ordering your trees in. If you […]
Manure 101
By | LastUpdated May 1, 2024
Manure is part of natures deft design – we eat the food that grew on the ground that’s fertilised by the manure which began as the food – such an elegant cycle! And manure can, when used well, bring much goodness, but – and it’s a big but, it can equally not. The type of […]
How to Finish Asparagus + Prep it for Spring
By | LastUpdated May 1, 2024
Asparagus ferns will likely be tall and green and ferny, and getting in the way of everything! I corral them behind a string-line so as to let them completely finish in peace, and I’m hoping to encourage you to do the same. Let them go full cycle – there is more to this than meets […]
April In The Vegie Patch
By | LastUpdated April 1, 2024
Out with the old and in with the new – now! Today! Or you’ll run out of grow time. Make space Whip around and chop down finished crops (hello compost or mulch!) to make space for the new. Sow Direct Sow Tray Sow Direct or Tray Sow Transplant Harvest Keep checking in on soon to […]
