Since the birth of this blog there have been some mentions of my family, so here they all are (except my wife, she’s shy… that’s what she says anyway…)
Maggie, or Margret when she’s in trouble, is a three year old cat. Not sure what kind of genetic line she comes from, but she is wonderfully [...]
What do you get when you cross a tank full of fish and a vegetable garden?
You get a very productive food producing system called Aquaponics!
Over the weekend I ducked down to my local nursery and ordered a Balcony Kit aquaponics setup. I wish I had the balcony to put it on, but the kit is [...]
On Saturday morning I saw a Tumbleweed Compost Tumbler on special at the local garden center, over $50 off the original price so it came home with me.
After opening the box and reading the instructions, the contstruction was simple. Only needed a 10mm spanner, a phillips head screw driver and a shifter to put it [...]
After reading Lifehacker the other day, a little motivation crept in to build a new bin and grow my own potatoes again. This will be a multi post project that will document all the stages from planting to growing!
Years ago I grew many kilograms of potatoes in a stack of old car tyres with great [...]
After three weeks away getting married and on our honeymoon, my garden has survived an average top temperature of 35 degrees C.
There have been a couple of casualties, but nothing that was not expected, and a couple of nice surprises.
My Arrowroot plants have been belted around by the wind a fair bit and coupled with [...]
How many mealy bugs can you fit on a tomato stalk?
I was not sure myself until I found this branch in my garden over the weekend!
With Peter Cundall retiring from his role as the face of Gardening Australia towards the end of 2008, the show continued on with the other hosts taking turns to introduce the show. It was with great surprise, and was very refreshing, when I watched episode one for 2009 to find Stephen Ryan as the new [...]
With record rainfall in January 2009 (524mm) there has been an outbreak of insects. Between the grasshoppers and moths inundating my house and workplace (they smell bad when they die in large numbers), my garden has been getting a flogging.
My 19 Arrowroot plants which were going great guns have been attacked by a plague of [...]
It has been a very wet start to the year, my garden has been flooded at least 10 times with water above ankle deep, so much so the fish in my pond could nearly swim to freedom. But the good news is our town water supply is at 98% (I can’t wait to get photo’s [...]
I Stumbled Upon this today and laughed so hard.
