Category: Garden
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Using Plants For Airconditioning
After my first, incredibly hot summer in a weatherboard house with no insulation, no air-conditioning, and not even very good ventilation, I knew I needed to do something very quickly to shade the western side of the house, which bears the full brunt of the afternoon sun. Most old houses and even many new ones […]
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The Unhappy Lemon
They tell you that growing citrus in pots is easy and that they love it in containers. But I have been growing a dwarf lemon in a huge terracotta pot for about four years now and, after a brief moment at the beginning where it seemed to be happy, it has been suffering from depression […]
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Goodbye Stringy
One of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make in the garden was to take out the stringy mango. I bought my house from the family of a woman called Beattie, and it was her brother who built it in the 1940s and planted the mango. It was a beautiful old tree and I was […]
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The Wonders of Washing Machine Tubs
After the last three years of drought, you wouldn’t think I’d be eagerly anticipating my garden drying out. I won’t say wishing for it because I still bear a few scars from the last three summers – I will never wish for dry weather again. We have had a La Niña summer and how welcome […]
The Suburban Food Forest 