Category Archives: Winter Harvesting

Monday Harvest – 18 Jun 2012

I feel like I’ve spent ages composing this post.  This is partially because my first draft somehow got lost in the cyberspace….damn you WordPress.  It is also partially because I’ve done two silly things today.  I’ve drunk slightly too much red wine … Continue reading

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Growing Horseradish in a Pot

I’ve only been growing horseradish for a couple of years.  The first year I grew it in the ground.  That was last year.  I thought I harvested all of it but despite this I have spent much of this year … Continue reading

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Monday Harvest – June 10th 2012

Today is a public holiday, for the Queen’s birthday no less.  I’ve always found it mildly amusing that we get a day off here, in the colonies, but they don’t in the motherland.  Shame, he he he….  Actually I used to … Continue reading

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Growing Ginger in Melbourne – Is it worth it?

I harvested some more of my ginger today.  One of the plants in the pot was dying back and I was dying to see what lay beneath the soil. So I dug it out, leaving the remaining green plants in the … Continue reading

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Monday Harvest – June 4, 2012

Wet and wintery that’s how Melbourne is at the moment.  Fittingly my first harvest is a cold weather one – the first of this years broccoli crop.  Although I could, in theory, grow broccoli pretty much all year round here … Continue reading

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