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...
View ArticleMinuscule 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...
View ArticleHow 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....
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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 →
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleExtending 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...
View ArticleHow 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;...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleMagic(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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