Why are we planting Flax and Grasses? We’ve chosen to divide and replant a variety of flax and ornamental grasses as they are shallow rooted plants (they don’t seek-and-destroy underground water pipes), they’re hardy and thrive on any extra moisture…
Now, planting sounds like a very simple job to do, and it is. HOWEVER after planting more than 250 hedges around our section, I kinda got the hang of a few nifty little tips I thought I’d share. Preparing Holes…
My Hungry Bin worm farm is trucking along just nicely after many years. I adore my Hungry Bin worm farm, but for various reasons it’d been ‘house-sat’ elsewhere for the past 12 months and came to a sticky end –…
Bless their wriggly souls. While worm farms do make great garden tea (aka worm wee) and fertiliser, for which I am truly thankful, they aren’t a complete solution. Meanwhile, sitting in the corner, unloved and understated is the humble compost…
Well, it looks like no one is about to give me a free backyard make over any time soon…damn it, I’ll have to document my own damn good gardening project. Winter has come (and almost gone according to the calendar)…
With all this rain you may need to re-sprinkle some snail bait around those cabbages; or not! For those wanting an environmentally friendly alternative consider a beer trap, eggshells, sawdust, coffee dregs or look to change your gardening maintenance regime….
It seemed a natural choice really, to get rid of these horrors of the garden without saturating my edible garden with chemicals. It didn’t take long to rediscover home-made concoctions to send white fly and aphids packing. This organic, natural…
It’s madness I tell you. One minute I’m looking out my kitchen window and admiring the new season’s blossoms, next there’s fruit. What’s going on! I’m astounded by the growth in my garden in just a few short weeks. Just…
Don’t throw away your eggshells. Recycle them into fertiliser for your vege patch. In preparing your vegetable garden for spring, don’t forget winter is a perfect time to get your composting needs in check. Your vege patch will need to…
It doesn’t take much to get me beaming. The Hungry Bin Worm Farm didn’t need wrapping to be the perfect Christmas gift this year. We have had experience with worm farms before. While the concept is the same (worms eat…