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Growing Shallots, Onions and Spring Onions
This post contains: The difference between Shallots, Onions & Spring Onions Growing Onions Growing Shallots Growing Spring Onions Making Crispy Fried Shallots Overview: This (May) is the perfect time of the year to be planting shallots and onions in Melbourne. Spring Onions can … Continue reading
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Lettuce Sing, fresh fruit and veggies…..
The Plant: Damn those Wiggles, whenever I think of the word lettuce all I can think about is Anthony (the blue Wiggle) singing “Let us sing, Let us sing, Fresh fruit and veggies, let us sing…..” Let us – Lettuce … Continue reading
Is it spinach, is it silver beet, or is it chard?
The plant: This plant was grown from seeds which called it perpetual spinach, which is a type of silver beet and is also known as Chard or even Swiss Chard. Spinach (as opposed to ‘perpetual spinach’ ) is a completely … Continue reading
A plan for Winter
I planted my garlic yesterday. I would have liked to have done it a bit earlier but I couldn’t. This is largely because I refused to pull out the cucumber plants that have done so well this summer (from 4 … Continue reading
Herbs – A good supply of Mint
The Plant: This has been a good year for mint. Mint doesn’t like it too hot and this summer certainly hasn’t been Melbourne’s hottest, as my unripe capsicums etc can testify. I grow my mint in pots. Mint is invasive … Continue reading
