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Emerging herbs….
Why is growing things from seed so very satisfying? Here are my newborn herbs, powering along on day 21. As Jamie predicted, the parsley has now sprouted and seems to be doing just fine. As long as I...
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Cate Kennedy’s new shoots
As I’ve said before, Cate Kennedy has a new book coming out soon. It’s a novel, and I keep hearing from advance readers (those folks who get to snaffle up the advance copies of books that are sent out...
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Herbal remedies?
Okay, so contrary to all sensible advice I have planted my herb seedlings too early, and now they’re in the garden – surviving, but still looking decidedly peaky. I separated all the weeny dicotyledons...
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Fine but frugal food – is it possible?
I’ve come to the realisation, rather late in the piece, that the dough has run out. Renovation sure takes it out of a gal, and the latest bit of it – our backyard spritz, even done with volunteer...
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A spana and the works
Apologies for the lack of posts lately – I’ve been preoccupied with various things, not least some family-visiting travel up and down the land, from the tropics to the tundra. Okay, Launceston is not...
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Small potatoes: having a crack at spud farming
Well, I cracked. I have been lusting after it for some time, and was going to try to wait till December to see what Father Christmas brought, but last weekend I fell off the restraint wagon (I know:...
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A purple patch
Remember my quest for Australian garlic, which then resulted in the talented Cate Kennedy sending me some of her garlic shoots? Well, that garlic is coming along nicely in my garden as we speak, this...
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Leaves of class
This will be a short post. I just wanted to show off the salad leaves grown in our garden. If I could only grow one thing, salad leaves would be it. These days it’s not hard to find beautiful tomatoes...
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Seeing red: my tomato crop
Just because I’m feeling proud, here is a picture of some of our home-grown Roma tomatoes. Since this photo was taken last week, our harvest has zoomed along, and there are bowls of Romas everywhere....
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Big hopes for small spaces
As I’m away at Varuna, the Writers’ House this week I thought I’d invite a guest post for this blog, something I’ve not done before. So a warm welcome and my huge thanks to Naomi Parry, aka @drnaomi,...
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