Monthly Archives: May 2012

Monday Harvest – May 14th 2012

Its cold here today (59F/15C) and as a result I don’t know how much longer the summer crops will last.  We are still getting eggplants, a few tomatoes and the never ending chillies. What we are not getting are decent … Continue reading

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The Kitchen Garden in May

Each month during the past year I have written a page describing what I do in the Kitchen Garden in that month.  You will find them on both my side bar and above under Planting Notes.  I have written one … Continue reading

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Growing Sweet Potatoes in Melbourne – Part 2

Look what’s happened to me again.  I say again because exactly the same thing happened last year.  A long forgotten sweet potato decided to shoot while abandoned in the back of my cupboard.  Cool huh?  Like last year I plan … Continue reading

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Top 5 – Beetroot Dishes

You can grow Beetroot pretty much all year round in Melbourne, but for much of the year other crops seem to get all the attention.  It is in our hungry gaps – the end of Autumn when the summer crops … Continue reading

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Monday Harvest – May 7th 2012

I seem to have coloured coded my first few photos this week.  Here we have the reds – still more chillies, a few cherry tomatoes from my Tiny Tim plant which is still going strong in a pot and some … Continue reading

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