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Take a bowl of Cucumber Beetroot and Carrots from our veggie patch. Add some inspiration, Bang Bang Chicken, and we hav...
19/08/2023

Take a bowl of Cucumber Beetroot and Carrots from our veggie patch. Add some inspiration, Bang Bang Chicken, and we have tonight’s dinner. says yum. Thank you Adam.

Good veggie gardens are all about your chickens as far as we are concerned.
27/06/2022

Good veggie gardens are all about your chickens as far as we are concerned.

This years veggie garden is doing well. After an intense rain event in Autumn delayed my usual April planting I finally ...
27/06/2022

This years veggie garden is doing well. After an intense rain event in Autumn delayed my usual April planting I finally sowed my first seeds and a few seedlings I had prepared earlier around the 15th of May. Soil preparation this year consisted of some Dolomite, blood and bone and a couple of wheel barrows in each bed of a 3 to 1 mix of the surface layer of the day time chook run with sand from their nighttime safe house. I lightly forked this through and let sit for about 8 weeks. I have a couple of compost bays in the chook run and the chooks always have access to one of these as the composting process takes place. They spread plenty of this through the run and I cycle it back and forth through the compost through the year. It’s is this surface layer from the run that was 3 parts of my 3 to 1 bed prep mix. My only other inputs are Dipel (organic certified), for the little green Caterpillars that eat the leafy greens and my hands for weeding and grasshopper removal. This years planting includes: Roma tomato, feral cherry tomato, rocket, Lettuce x 2 kinds, Pak Choy, Rainbow chard, carrots, eggplants x 2 kinds, beetroot, green beans, snow peas, celery, dwarf kale, carrots, parsley, coriander, basil, cucumber, oregano, ginger, turmeric, tarragon, mint, pepper, dill, nasturtium, broccoli. In couple of months as the broccoli, carrots and beens finish I will plant sweet corn and zucchini and a new bean crop. We are eating fresh greens and herbs with every meal and a sneak peak by our young neighbours suggests the carrots are growing pretty well! The Beans and snow peas are flowering promising their bounty to come. Cucumbers, tomatoes and egg plants are setting and the beetroots are starting to show. All from approximately 10 square meters of garden. All it takes is a little love and attention every day and a bit of attention to your soil and the life within it. Don’t forget the chooks, that’s what the barriers are for. Love what the give me but they can make a mess of the garden if you turn your back.

An early morning forage in the garden in menu prep for our weekend away.
16/09/2021

An early morning forage in the garden in menu prep for our weekend away.

Chicken selfie.
06/09/2021

Chicken selfie.

Vegi garden rescue. Getting ready for the spring and summer crops with the help of our chickens. After a tough start for...
15/08/2021

Vegi garden rescue. Getting ready for the spring and summer crops with the help of our chickens. After a tough start for the veggie patch with very heavy unseasonal rain we managed to salvage a steady supply of snow peas, tomato’s and leafy greens. Final harvest today and new seeds planted with the assistance of our lovely neighbours Scarlet, Lucy and their mum

Freshening up the herb garden today. We use fresh herbs a lot in our cooking and love dill, oregano, thyme, parsley, cel...
16/05/2021

Freshening up the herb garden today. We use fresh herbs a lot in our cooking and love dill, oregano, thyme, parsley, celery and rosemary. We are still having to plant them in little tubes to stop the munchies from getting them.

@ Cairns, Queensland, Australia

05/05/2021

2021 Vegetable Garden Tour - the veggie garden is finally in after a few false starts - bugs and then 800mm of rain. We are away now!

03/05/2021

Saving our seedlings 🌱 We have had some trouble with critters eating our seedlings lately. This is a hack that seems to be working for us and saving the seedlings.

02/05/2021

Planting tomatoes in pots - wilt played havoc with our tomatoes and eggplant last year so we are going to try growing them in pots this year. Let’s see how it goes.

I wish I could make this post ‘scratch and sniff’ The perfume on this orchid is amazing. This beauty is on loan from Ph...
13/04/2021

I wish I could make this post ‘scratch and sniff’ The perfume on this orchid is amazing. This beauty is on loan from Phil’s aunt who is on holidays. Aren’t we lucky 😃

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Workshop 2 - a fabulous group of people, a beautiful day and workshop 2 was away.
11/04/2021

Workshop 2 - a fabulous group of people, a beautiful day and workshop 2 was away.

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