by admin | Aug 6, 2018 | HOW TO GROW
I like to have one or two dependable vegetables in the garden all year. Those veggies you can put in, take very little care and yet they will always give you a great harvest. For me my top dependable is Broccoli. I don’t know if it is my soil, the position of the...
by admin | Mar 20, 2018 | AUTUMN
Early Autumn is by the far the busiest time of the year for me in the productive garden. In winter I have most of my major crops in so just do a little continuous planting of the quick harvest crops and spring though busy doesn’t have the franticness of autumn and...
by admin | Jan 14, 2018 | WHAT TO GROW WHEN
I am just a bit over Kale. We are bombarded through the media with a constant dialogue on the benefits of, and recipes for this vegetable, but frankly I do not like it. Give me a plate of steamed Broccoli any day. I have been growing Kale for the past 5 or 6 years,...
by admin | Sep 30, 2017 | WHAT TO GROW WHEN
If you regularly follow my blog you will know I have a bit of a love affair with purple /red vegetables When I lasted looked I permanently grow: • Blueberries • Purple asparagus • Rhubarb with it brilliant red stems • Reb leafed sorrel • Figs And annually I regularly...
by admin | Jul 14, 2017 | HOW TO GROW, WINTER
Here in the Southern Highlands with nearly three weeks of frost, some severe, the ground is too cold to be doing and direct seed sowing this week. So this week I will be planting seeds into punnets of Asian greens, Broccoli, snow peas, English spinach, rocket and...
by admin | Sep 3, 2016 | USING YOUR PRODUCE, WINTER
If you regularly view my Facebook page and read my blog you will know I am a bit obsessed with growing and eating broccoli. Now if you Google the health benefits of broccoli, you will come up with a plethora of hits all extolling the benefits of this super food. Here...
