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Category Archives: Summer Planting
February – The Wrap Up
Summer’s over for another year – in Australia our seasons are aligned with calendar months, so officially summer finished at the end of February. And weather-wise it does seemed to have finished, at least for the time being. The last days of … Continue reading
The Mechanics of Reproduction – Hand Pollinating Pumpkins
I was thinking of a range of different titles for this particular post – but then I thought of the disappointment that any number of 13 year boys would feel when they pulled up a site about gardening rather than … Continue reading
Peter Cundall & More Potato Experiments
I occasionally buy Organic Gardener magazine. There is an article by Peter Cundall in this months issue about growing beans, carrots, and pivotally for this post, potatoes. I love Peter Cundall – he is definitely one of my heroes. For anyone … Continue reading
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Growing Tomatoes in Melbourne – Part 1
As you will have no doubt noticed this blog is called Suburban Tomato, but unless you read my “about” page (pretty recently if your memory is anything like mine…) you wont necessarily know why. Well this is why: Tomatoes are pretty … Continue reading
Potato Experiments
My seed potatoes finally arrived about a week ago. I ordered 3 varieties this year – Kipfler, Dutch Cream and Pink Fir Apple. I grew Kipfler last year and was so pleased with them I decided to grow them and … Continue reading
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Beautiful balls of white – Cauliflower
OOOOh they are coming! It is so nice to have cauliflower to look forward to. So nice that upon seeing mine developing I immediately went out and bought one at the Preston market and used it to make a risotto … Continue reading
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Radishes
Radishes are one of those things that I think it can be quite hard to get truly passionate about. Tomatoes – well the ‘love apple’ moniker says it all, chillies have fire, eggplants are tactile, broccoli is good for you and … Continue reading
Perpetual red hands – a love of beetroot
Ahh Beetroot! I love beetroot, but why? Perhaps its the patriot in me - for some reason I regard beetroot as being quintessentially Australian (this despite the most famous beetroot dish in the world being Russian…). I think I associate beetroot with … Continue reading
Growing Fenugreek
The plant: I have a mound of soil which I hope to grow pumpkins on later this year. In order to prepare it for planting I thought I would be a good idea to grow a green manure crop on it. … Continue reading
Battling the Aphids – Growing Broccoli
Apparently the name broccoli comes from Italian broccolo, which means something like: ‘the flowering top of a cabbage’. I read this on Wikipedia – I love Wikipedia - I find that even if the info on there isn’t true its usually entertaining … Continue reading