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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Top 5 – Gardening questions I don’t know the answers to
I have to admit that I am a bit of a bookaholic, I will read any gardening book I see, or rather that the Coburg library happens to have on their shelves. I also read a lot of blogs on the … Continue reading
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Monday Harvest
This week has been more of the same really – lots of lovely summery things. Cucumbers of all shapes and sizes – the last one has a very odd lumpy bit, but I think I’ll forgive it and eat it … Continue reading
Potato Experiments – Peter Cundall’s method revisited
Last September I posted on my establishing a new bed in which the first crop was to be potatoes. I decided to employ the method of potato growing detailed by Peter Cundall in that months Organic Gardener magazine. I didn’t … Continue reading
A Summer of Salads – January
When I read about Vegplotting’s 52 week salad challenge, the aim of which is to harvest or forage some salad leaves to eat every week of the year, I have to say I smugly thought no problem. Then I looked … Continue reading
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Crispy Fried Shallots
OK so today I’m going to cheat a bit for my Thursday Kitchen Cupboard post. But I’ve got a cold and I’ve had a busy week, the highlight of which was an evening at the Australian Open. Lets go Lleyton, … Continue reading
Top 5 – Salads to eat on Australia Day
This Thursday is Australia Day. Embarrassingly I came to write this post and I couldn’t remember what it actually commemorates. I thought it was the anniversary of Federation but no, it is actually the anniversary of the First Fleet’s arrival in Sydney cove and … Continue reading
Monday Harvest
Another week and another attempt to kill my tomatoes…My tomatoes were dying: browning foliage and no more growth. I fed them about 10 days ago but it didn’t seem to have helped. After I spent much time researching tomato diseases … Continue reading
Drying Herbs: Oregano
I cut my oregano for drying today. I’ve always imagined myself cooking in a large kitchen with bunches of home grown dried herbs and garlic hanging from the ceiling. Sadly this has yet to eventuate, I seem to have inhabited … Continue reading
Tarka Dhal
A couple of months ago someone ran into the back of my car (or to be more accurate their car did – if it had just been a person the damage would have been significantly less). Because of our holiday and Christmas … Continue reading
A Sense of Danger: Growing Sorrel
I have to admit to being slightly scared of sorrel. As a plant it looks unassuming but then I think about all that oxalic acid and I start to feel a little concerned. The truth is that Sorrel is slightly … Continue reading