I posted a while back on how the quality of the soil
in which food grows affects the quality of our food. In fact, this applies to most plants.
I stressed the importance of feeding your soil to keep it healthy.
When we feed our soil we are Continue reading
I love growing my own food.
It makes me feel like I’m doing something worthwhile to reduce my footprint on the environment.
Growing food where I eat it reduces my ‘food miles’ to zero…which makes me feel virtuous. 😉 Continue reading
Where I live, it’s been a pretty fantastic year for fruit.
The good rains over the previous 2 summers (after a long drought) plus good rain in spring probably had something to do with it. So might pretty regular (drip) irrigation and good sun. 🙂
For me, so far we have seen: Continue reading
In the southern hemisphere, summer is just upon us 
– if it hasn’t already arrived.
Summer is the most productive time in the garden. It’s when most of our fruit, vegetables and flowers grow.
Unfortunately, it can also be very challenging…especially if you live in a place with hot, dry, windy summers like I do. (I live in Canberra, capital of Australia). Continue reading
For those of us living in cool temperate areas spring 
is well and truly here, especially if you’ve had lots of rain like we have.
And that means that everything in the garden (and outside the garden!) is growing.
So it’s now time to plant seeds and seedlings for the main summer crops. Continue reading