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Promenade du Paillon in Nice, France: A Public Open Space that Works!

Why are public open spaces so often empty of public? Sometimes it’s obvious like my hometown Adelaide’s infamous Festival Centre Plaza’s concrete desert. Whereas Nice in France has the 12 hectare...

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Minuscule harvests

Hooray, hooray, it’s my first avocado harvest! Yep, that’s avocado harvest, singular. It was delicious – not quite the bushels I planned to give away to family and friends, but at least Geoff and I...

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How to eat your garden – preserving the harvest

Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Plant, Grow, Harvest, Cook. Managing your harvest gluts with seasonal eating, finding recipes, preserving and dehydrating helps you get the most from your produce garden....

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How to grow tamarillo or tree tomato

The tamarillo must be the most under-rated and under-planted fruit tree in my region... and yet it is unfussy, extremely fast-growing and bears delicious fruit. The red cultivars are tart – ideal for...

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How to grow and prune summer and autumn raspberries

Raspberries are expensive to buy but easy to grow in temperate climate zones. If you plant both autumn and summer varieties, you’ll have fruit to harvest for many months. Continue reading →

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How to brine black olives

A friend gave me a wonderful gift of 15 kilos of olives...and not just any olives. The Cerignola fruit were enormous, bigger than giant Greek kalamatas, with most 50-55 mm and some even bigger. I've...

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Extending the harvest (or avoiding the glut!)

I've got some practical tips and tricks to help you spread your vegie harvest, especially if, like me, you're not religiously sowing a new line of seed every 3 weeks! Prolific vegetables – such as...

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How to find and use cheap landscaping stone

With its unique natural beauty, stone is a favourite of gardeners, for steps, paving, retaining walls or buildings as it settles into its surroundings and ages gracefully. But stone is expensive;...

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How to protect soft fruit from millipedes

Ah, the luscious taste of strawberries straight from the garden – YUM! Unless they have a millipede inside: then it’s definitely BLECCCHHH! Millipedes aren’t toxic but they produce a highly irritant...

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Magic(al) mushrooms

It’s easy to overlook fungi in a garden… until they bother the plants we want to grow! We blast wilts, blights, rots, mildews and rusts with sulphur, copper, lime or potassium bicarbonate, or with the...

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