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Three bulbs for Summer
It’s not too late to plant out some bulbs to keep your garden in colour through to autumn. Here are six of my all time favorites! Dahlia – many forms, colours such as red, pink, yellow, white and purple. They enjoy full sun, plenty of manure and fertilizer. Canna – growing to two meters tall, [...]
Vegetable Gardening in the 1940′s
Stumbling along today, I found this old gem! http://www.veoh.com/videos/v16363707XMhgTzc7 It’s a video from the 1940′s about two kids learning about vegetable gardening. While some of the methods are a little out dated (spraying bugs with Arsenate of Lead), and the dialogue is somewhat dodgy… as a whole its a great little film about gardening. I [...]
Hot Compost
After taking a holiday to an eco tourism resort on and island national park, I came to realise that even though we try to live pretty green at our house, I have been lazy with my wastage. (The time at the resort was very relaxing thank you very much.) My worm farm has slowed down [...]
The simple things in life
What a weekend… Plenty of action, plenty of fun, but I just finished the single best thing I’ve done all weekend. Motorbike riding Saturday morning was great for clearing my head, working in the garden was great for raising a sweat. Our mango tree is beginning to fruit, there are hundreds of large mangoes growing [...]
I have WORMS!
No need for a dose of conbantrum here. I have worms in my garden. Living in a semi-arid/tropical region with ancient soil containing -50% organic matter I never thought earth worms could survive, let alone find their way into my garden! I was digging around today where my tomato plants were yesterday (I pulled them [...]
Beautiful Garden
I Stumbled upon this photo today and thought I would share it with you. A garden something like this is my ultimate dream! A few trout in the pond there and it would be perfect! 235493garden0042.jpg (JPEG Image, 424×640 pixels) Blogged with the Flock Browser
Vegetable Garden Sunshade
Following on from the post ‘Summer Australian Garden’, my vegetable garden has been taking a beating from the sun. The tomato leaves are a bit frazzled and the beans are getting crispy. I’ve just finished the construction of my new shade tunnel; garden cover. Using three lengths of poly (polyethylene) pipe around 4m long, six [...]
Summer Australian Garden
It’s that time of year again. Living in a semi-arid / sub tropical / tropical area there comes a time when the nice warm ‘spring days’ of plentiful growth turn into hot dry leaf scorching blast furnace days of 40+ degree celcius (104+F), all of this is prior to the “big wet” consisting of humidity [...]
Grateful for the flowers
They’re at it again… Good on those Guerrilla Gardeners for taking their time *and money* to make the dull world of a city street scape into something of beauty. The local government where I live has a great gardening program in place to beautify the town, but there are a number of areas that need [...]
Garden Taking off
Last week I spent three days away from home. On my return I went to check how my garden had fared, only to find that it had grown better without me than with me. The Passionfruit vine had gone berserk (a little pruning fixed that), the snake beans have got beans now that are 8 [...]
About Me
My name is Ben, and I'm a self confessed gardenoholic. My other interests include growing plants, looking at plants, drinking coffee and taking the odd photo. My wife thinks I'm mad, but is getting into the whole garden thing, possibly going mad as well. In my spare time I'm a geologist (must be something about dirt and rocks...)- Get me on Twitter
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