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Compost Tumbler Update

It’s been 14 days since I filled my Tumbleweed Compost Tumbler with grass clippings and horse manure. With a tumble or two each day the contents became very hot (too hot to touch one day) and has turned to a nice earthy brown colour with a sweet smell. The heat generated in the bin will [...]

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Compost Tumbler

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 [...]

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Potato Bin – Build Stage

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 [...]

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My Garden Survived

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 [...]

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Mealy Bugs on Tomatoes

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!

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Garden Survival while on Holiday

My three week holiday is coming up very quickly, and since I won’t be around to water and tend for my garden I thought I would share with you a few of my plans to keep the garden alive in this warm weather we are experiencing.

Mulch: Reducing the amount of water lost to the atmosphere [...]

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Fresh Tomatoes

What a day! It all seemed better when I came home from work to find there were heaps of ripe tomatoes on my bushes.
It has been a battle with the intense heat, lack of heat, lack of water (for a little bit), too much water, mealy bug attack, caterpillar attack… the list goes on, but [...]

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Meet Stephen Ryan – The new host of Gardening Australia

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 [...]

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Caterpillar Mayhem

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 [...]

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505mm of rain in 25 days

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 [...]

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