
URBAN FOOD GARDEN SEASON SUMMARY: Summer 2020/21
Season summary for my food garden in Ballarat (Victoria): Summer 2020/21 WEATHER SUMMARY The summer this year was the coolest and wettest for many years.
Season summary for my food garden in Ballarat (Victoria): Summer 2020/21 WEATHER SUMMARY The summer this year was the coolest and wettest for many years.
Season summary for my food garden in Ballarat (Victoria): Autumn 2021 WEATHER SUMMARY A colder than average March was cancelled out with a warmer than
We have had a couple of frosts in the last few days (6th and 11th of October 2021), though they were not that severe. Here
On Christmas Eve we ate the last of our Golden Nugget winter squashes. Golden Nugget is not the best tasting of the pumpkin/squash varieties out
Season summary for my food garden in Ballarat (Victoria), Summer 2021-22. This is mainly of relevance to gardeners living in the Ballarat area, though it
Last spring I saved seeds from one of my broccoli plants. This was a somewhat risky exercise as broccoli plants must cross pollinate with another
Sadly I recently lost three chickens to foxes. I lost one chicken four nights ago and the final two last night (14th November, 2021). Failure
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
Mulching is the placing of organic matter, such as straw or Lucerne, on top of your garden soil. It is good for vegetable beds as
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
Arguably the most common reason for people giving up growing vegetables is out of control weeds. But an efficiently managed vegetable patch requires much less
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