An Open Day is a great way to get feedback from gardeners on what you’re growing and how you’re doing.
Category Archives: Gardeners
Book Review: ‘The Thrifty Gardener’ By Millie Ross, ABC Books
“Building the garden you want with whatever you’ve got”
True Grit & Tough Love: gardening in Queensland’s Runcorn
Growth on sound foundations: Kyabra Community Garden, Queensland
Port Moresby: A Gritty City with Heart
Before leaving for a week’s trip, I read my Lonely Planet guide. It describes Port Moresby as a ‘gritty’ city and advises tourists not to flaunt their wealth. Well, I survived living in London’s Surrey Docks (1984-85) and I work for the ABC, so I consider myself safe on both counts.
Farewell, Friends
Basil and Mary died. Last weekend. The world is poorer without them, and I have a heavy heart. Where to start?
Happy Father’s Day
“If in doubt, do what grandad, or great grandad would have done”
My Dad’s best gardening tip
Review: Edible School Gardens DVD
“If they grow it, they will eat it”, that’s Leonie Shanahan’s positive message for parents and schools. But how to get an affordable school food garden started?
Sumptuous Pomelo
At last weekend’s open day, Rosa, a gardening neighbour, gave me two pomelo fruit. So I had two opportunities: to grow my own tree and to make refreshing pomelo salad.
Open Day At Bellis
Almost 1,700 people visited my garden last weekend. And what a very friendly, gentle, respectful and very inquisitive mob they all were.
I found the first visitor snoozing in her car as the dawn mist was rising. People arrived gradually at first, but as Brisbane turned on one of its magical autumn days, things began to bustle.
So You Want To Create A Community Garden?
A gardening friend is getting ready to breathe life into a neglected communal food garden, so I’ve sent him these notes I prepared for Gardening Australia.
In 2007 – 2008, there was a spike in oil prices. Since the bulk of food is produced using petrol-dependant technology (oil-based fertilisers and pesticides, petrol powered irrigation, harvesting, packing and transportation, etc) this price spike caused the cost of food to rise significantly. Suddenly the media discussed ‘food inflation’. Many conventional farmers started looking at fuel efficiency: ceasing the use of expensive oil-based products and oil consuming tasks.
