I started the final process of sorting, labelling and storing of my saved seeds last week. Some seeds, like chilli, capsicum, and tomato, are collected,
A follow up to my SEASONAL BLOG – My Seedling Production This Spring posting. MY SPRING SEEDLING PLANTINGS AS OF THE 17TH OF OCTOBER This
Each spring I follow a scheduled routine for planting seeds in seedling trays and potting up mature seedlings in preparation for planting in the ground
Season summary for my food garden in Ballarat (Victoria), Spring 2021. This is mainly of relevance to gardeners living in the Ballarat area, but it
WEATHER SUMMARY Winter temperatures were very near the average for Ballarat but with so many days of rain – 21 days in June, 26 in
If you are like me, older and of Anglo-Saxon heritage, you probably would have been brought up with the notion of lettuces as a summer
If you have a large food garden then, there are cost savings to be made by buying consumables such as pesticides in larger quantities. An
I have a question for fellow poultry keepers. I recently noticed that my five Hyline hens show varying degrees of feather loss just behind their
My June pea planting experiment As an experiment I planted bush and snow peas in my main vegetable patch at the start of June, a
A bit early to tell but it looks like it is shaping up to be an early asparagus season for the Ballarat area. This photo
Following up from my Early Start To The Asparagus Season blog post back on 11th August. It has indeed turned out to be an early
I harvested my main pumpkin crop on the weekend (2nd May 2020), the last to be harvested of the three pumpkin varieties that I grow.
If you grow a single chilli plant far enough away (beyond bee flight range) from any other plants of the genus capsicum it would still
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