Posts in category Garden

Oh my lord. I am sure I posted about this earlier but can’t find the original post. I started the first batch off a week ago and I used this recipe  Make …

A few weeks ago I bought a tap extension for my front garden tap (currently it lurks in an relatively inaccessible place and this tap extension will just make things …

Ach, the wind! The wind! Spring is always the worst time of the year for The Wind to hit. Today I had to do a mad dash outside to save …

One of those hard to manage, God knows what I will do with, corners. If you’re lucky they’re tucked away in an unseen spot behind the garage/garden shed and no …

I just picked my first early pea crop – only small, as over the past 10 days or so I have been snacking on peas straight from the pod in …

At least that’s what it feels like to me. Standing up in the ‘back’ vegetable patch, looking down through the eastern garden, all I see are great swathes of green: …

Today a new (our only?) Farmer’s Market opened in the city so I popped along for a look. This was its very first day, so there were only about twenty …

So, today is Show Day in Hobart, the day when traditionally southern Tasmanian home gardeners trundle out their carefully nurtured tomatoes and pop them in the garden bed. But, wait! …

One of the final seed plantings went in today (after this everything is really repeats): the bush beans. I planted out the largest of the vegetable beds with Borlotti, Erimo …

Every spring it happens – the wind arrives. It has coincided with the warmest day of the season today, so it has been truly hateful outside. It was so bad …