Why i love Helebores
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Propagation 101
Its rare that i buy a plant or seeding now days… i has to be something that i want desperately and right away… otherwise i propagate!
Whether it is seeds or cuttings, there are a few things that you will need to get started: Continue reading Propagation 101
Potting up the Booty :-)
I really wanted to use some of the Castings and Compost i acquired in yesterdays plunder in the propagation mix i was going to use to strikes the cuttings i plundered.
Amongst yesterdays booty was a bucket of propagating sand, so i was able to make a mixture that contained: Continue reading Potting up the Booty 🙂
Reuse and Recycle: Toliet roll pots
Sometimes i struggle to find enough little pots to use when i need to pot up seedlings or propagate cuttings.
Some people love ‘Jiffy Pots’ or ‘Pellets’ but i find that they don’t break down quick enough and are not tall enough to accommodate a good tap root system.
Ive read a few tips and heard from an elderly neighbour that using toilet rolls as transitional pots works really well. Continue reading Reuse and Recycle: Toliet roll pots
I’m riddled with WORMS!
During the raid yesterday, Chris gave me a foam box containing about 10000 worms.
14 Days to go
The Raid
Today my friends Dad donated more to gardening efforts than a kick starter project could ever hope to achieve.
Chris and Trish are moving out of their awesome home and today I was let loose on the garden…
Chris filled my car with buckets of nutrients, compost and castings plus a foam box of about 10000 worms!
His garden was so awesome I was a bit overwhelmed. …
I took some cuttings of many different Hebes, and a white hibiscus (I think I messed this up- I took ‘softwood’ but think I should have taken a ‘heel’ in the cutting.
Chris has amazing Helebores! So many patches that are flowering like crazy- beautiful greens and rust colored varieties.
I was so overwhelmed I forgot to dig up couple of clumps. … hopefully i might be able to go back in the he next few days and take some clumps.
They move out this week so I may have missed my only opportunity 😦
Helebores or not, Chris’s contributions will give me enough cuttings and supplies to help create a new patch here at the flats and help make more people smile:-)
Thanks again Reardon Family
Pics tomorrow of worms and cuttings being planted out. ..
Introducing the ‘Ork’
The Ork is a single tine gardening fork- and is probably the most useful garden tool ive seen since the ‘bottle top water’
Dont bother trying to find an Ork on the shelf at Bunnings…. my mates dad buys a normal 3 prong fork and cuts off the F he doesn’t need.
I had the pleasure of using the Ork while raiding Chris’s garden today.
In the pic above, the Ork is sitting on a bucket full off worm castings acquired in the raid 🙂
On the menu tonight
The hipsters have struck juicing gold!
😉
Tonight’s ‘Foyer Food’
Baby carrots grown in foam boxes in the car park and last of the radishes from the east side.
Plenty more carrots to come
More radishes growing in between cabbage on the west side. Everything grows really slowly here… I was still harvesting cabbage from here last year into the middle of summer.
(I know I shouldn’t have cabbage there again…. very bad planning in tetms of crop rotation!)
kick$tarter
Already $230 pledged!!
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Bottletop ‘waterer’ from Diggers
Thisis probably the most handy garden ‘tool’ I have purchased. Great for my seedlings!!
www.diggers.com.au/shop/product/HBOTW3/BOTTLE%20TOP%20WATERER%20(x3).aspx
18 days to go
Radishes from the East
The first offerings from the East side strip.
That’s why I love growing radish… you get to share the rewards nice and quickly 😉
Happy to say all the radishes have been taken!
One of the residents thanked me for the Silverbeet today, its nice to know that people appreciate the garden on any level.
I hope that by summer, some if the residents will be engaged enough to contribute to garden design (or even maintenance if im lucky hahaha)
East side harvest!
Radishes from the east side strip!
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Mitchell Mews kickstarter project
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Mitchell Mews kickstarter project
Id love to transform the east side fence line but cannot do it without financial support:
Growing food where it seems impossible!
Everyone can find space to grow plants!
These boots were made for…?
I had a spare space by my front door…. exactly where my boots should go 😉 Continue reading These boots were made for…?
Brunswick Gardener 