Having lived in suburbia for the past year I have a few more things to add onto my original post. Plus a link-fest of relevant sites. I redid my house’s ‘walkability‘ and scored 46 compared to last year’s 55, even though I live in the exact same house (strange). Anyone who has been to this [...]
This post is just a type-out of my notes taken in the talk on, you guessed it, balcony gardening. The talk was given by Cecilia of Balcony Garden Dreaming at the Sustainable Living Festival. Balcony Gardening – a self sustaining eco system created by you. – Somewhere to sit – Not many weeds – Pot [...]
This weekend I went to the Sustainable Living Festival in Federation Square. There were lots and lots of stall holders including organic food, ideas for house and garden as well as lots of fairtrade and organic clothing and other stuff. There was also lots of great talks, although I only made it to a few [...]
Wow. So the whole thing went crazy while I wasn’t really looking! Over the weekend Opa attempted to pin up some of my tomatoes, but they are just crazy. Today I found a couple of other loose strands so I put some more stakes in and tied them up. I also put some stakes next [...]
I have discovered the best source of knowledge for the future. People over the age of… well I don’t know the exact age, but my Oma (who I refer to as Joanne) is 70 and she qualifies. Last night around the dinner table I asked how you can keep growing parsley and other herbs, because [...]
So it has been more than a month and there is some definite growth happening. Yesterday I got around to doing a bunch of things that needed to happen. I weeded both halves, and finally mulched the second half. I also put dirt around the leeks again, and mulched around them. I was out there [...]
So I invited my second cousin Mitchell to come and plant some carrots in my garden. This morning I woke up bright and early and drove to the nursery to buy some plants for us to plant. I got to the nursery before 9am, the signs were all out and the gates were open, but [...]
This is just a quick post to say that I finally planted that extra oregano that I bought with my original seedlings. The poor stuff was almost bursting the punnet, I actually had a lot of trouble pulling the plants apart because the root systems had grown so much. Fortunately I grew up watching Peter [...]
I took a few pics this afternoon and then I went and watered the garden with some greywater. Opa was digging up a garden bed that is next to the driveway because the driveway people are coming early tomorrow morning, around 7.45am. So after he took the plants out I started to dig some of [...]
Note: There are eight pics at the end of this post, future posts will not have so many. I am now the proud owner of my own garden Yesterday Opa and I went to Bunnings and bought some sleeper posts. I would have loved to have bought the actual old railway sleepers, but they were [...]
