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Author Archives: Liz
Thai (ish) Red Curry Paste
I made red curry paste last week. I intend to make a few batches of it before both; I exhaust my supply of fresh lemongrass and the thai basil packs it in for this year. I find you can be fairly … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn Harvesting, Chillies, Capsicum & Eggplant, Herbs, Recipes
Tagged Chillis, Recipes
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Top 5 – Ways to Kill a Tomato Plant
OK so the title is a little over the top, but my daughter has been particularly melodramatic of late and I think its rubbed off. What the post is really about is the mistakes I have made over the years, … Continue reading
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
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
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
Posted in Greens - Lettuce, Spinach, Beets, Top 5
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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
April 2012 – The Wrap Up
April weather can be quite variable in Melbourne, for most of April this year it was really an extension of summer with temps in the mid 20s. By the end of the month though you could definitely feel winter coming and … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn Harvesting, Autumn Planting
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Penne with Broccoli
A bit of cool weather and the winter crops are starting to perform. Well those at my mum & dad’s are anyway. My brassicas are either very newly planted or in fairly sunless spots and stunted as a result. When I … Continue reading
Top 5: Reasons to have a Kitchen Garden
I feel like I’ve written a few negative posts of late - posts about the down sides of gardening – the pests and annoyances. Today though I thought I’d look at the up side – the benefits of kitchen gardening. This year … Continue reading
Posted in Top 5
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