Monthly Archives: March 2012

Suburban Tomato’s First Birthday

Suburban Tomato turned one today, which basically means I’ve annoyed my family by taking photo’s of their dinner and its ingredients for a whole year.                     In all seriousness though I’ve really enjoyed writing … Continue reading

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An Autumn of Salads – Fig & Pecorino

In my garden at the moment I have a lovely selection of leaves available for eating.  I have some new lettuces coming on: oakleaf varieties, Cos, Salad Bowl, my personal favourite – Freckles and a number of unknown varieties from a mix.  … Continue reading

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Aussie Rules and Lemongrass Chicken

The Australian Football League (AFL) season starts in earnest this weekend (it actually started last weekend but as there was only one match and it was between 2 Sydney teams that hardly counts).  I love AFL, always have, I think … Continue reading

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Top 5 – Garden Annoyances

There are just so many things I could have include here; black birds, potato beetles, the citrus gall wasp that is attacking my potted citrus, some seed’s poor germination rates, cabbage white butterflies, powdery mildew and so on but in the … Continue reading

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Harvest Monday – Mar 26th 2012

The weather has taken a turn for the autumnal this week which frankly I could do without – especially as some days have been quite chilly.  Still it is due to warm up again later in the week and the … Continue reading

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