The Suburban Food Forest

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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 […]

    bernice

    Jul 7, 2021
    Environment, Garden
    Grapevines, Passive Cooling, Permaculture
  • First Homemade Turmeric

    I am generally good at planning, planting and looking after things – but I am quite lousy at harvesting anything. I get a thrill of pleasure at how well the rocket is doing, and then completely ignore it until it’s gone to seed; I carefully tend my zucchini plants until they are magnificent, but don’t […]

    bernice

    Jul 6, 2021
    Food
  • 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 […]

    bernice

    Jul 3, 2021
    Garden
    Care of plants, Pests & Diseases
  • 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 […]

    bernice

    May 21, 2021
    Garden
  • 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 […]

    bernice

    May 21, 2021
    Garden
    Containers
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