RIP Peach Tree
It’s always sad saying good bye to an old friend. Ever since we’ve lived in our rental, we’ve scaled the back fence over to what is now our new block and picked as many peaches as we could. Last Continue reading
Category Archives: In Our Garden
Backyard Chickens – Update
It’s been while since I updated you on Gertrude, Poppy and Maude. They’re doing well. Poppy is a little under the weather. She’s looking a little less sparky than usual, her comb not a red, and feathers not as glossy. Continue reading
Garden Update June 2014
Our garden has been a little neglected since I fell pregnant. I had all the plans to get planting once E was born but then we bought the block and I couldn’t justify planting, as we were just going to Continue reading
In My Garden… March 2014
This is our whole garden haul for a day. Pretty dismal isn’t it. I’ve missed a few Garden Share Collective posts, and well, so has our garden. Before Christmas I just couldn’t muster the motivation to plant, weed, turn soil Continue reading
Growing Rosemary From A Cutting
For the last 2 years I worked at a local high school tutoring aboriginal students one on one (a state initiative called The Wannik Education Strategy). Although I generally had a full timetable, sometimes these students would be absent, or Continue reading
In My Garden… December 2013
In my garden things seem to be at either end of the spectrum. This bed seems to be going better than some others. The rhubarb has suddenly taken off, after many months of me thinking that it was gone Continue reading
In My Garden… November 2013
We’re running out of room in our backyard for garden beds. Slowly but surely, we’ve used up nearly every free space, pulling out just a few plants here and there, to make a little more room. In the top of Continue reading
We’d Like to Welcome…
A little over a week ago, on a Friday night, my friend called. I was waiting to pick up my fish and chips, after a massive week of work, J was away for work and I was just about to Continue reading
In My Garden… October 2013
We have heaps of exciting things happening in the garden at the moment, although to be honest we haven’t done very much to the garden over the last month. Our vegetables seem to be loving the sporadic weather we’re having Continue reading
In My Garden… September 2013
Not a lot has been happening in my garden over the last month. I haven’t done any more planting, not too much wedding, but I am starting to see edible things pop up. Like the bulbs of the beetroot. These Continue reading