Category: Garden
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The Mid-Winter Garden
Winter is my absolute favourite time of the year. In the subtropics it is a time when you can get lots of things done because it’s cool enough to work outside all day. At least it was – there haven’t been many days this year that stayed cool for long; the effects of climate change […]
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Pruning, Orange Gluts & Spiders
Spring is bearing down on us much earlier than it should be – it is almost 30 degrees today and it is mid August. I’m rushing around trying to do all the winter jobs I thought I still had time to do before it starts warming up – after a winter that didn’t really get […]
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Years of Black Plastic
With hindsight, I realise that weed-mat may be a ‘solution’ favoured by those feeling overwhelmed and under-resourced: overwhelmed by weeds and under-resourced in time and physical capacity. It seems like a good idea because you think your backbreaking weeding days are over, but in fact they are only just beginning. My experience with weed-mat was […]
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Gravel Regret
This was my ‘seems like a good idea at the time’ phase, though I still have no idea what madness persuaded me to smother parts of my garden in plastic. (Actually yes, I do… see the next post). During my first summer, before all the drought, we had a lot of rain and I couldn’t […]
The Suburban Food Forest 