May Garden Guide Mediterranean Climate (Cover image credit: Travel Diary – Alex L.) We must have had proper rain in Adelaide at last – the soursobs are up! So are the sweet peas (and all the others, tall and short: snowpeas, telephone peas, dwarf peas and sugarsnap peas). Mushrooms and toadstools are appearing, as the multitude of… View more
May Garden Guide Tropical Climate (Cover image credit: The Raw Food World) What to Plant in May? There is still time to plant all the Asian greens including the mustard leaves like komatsuna, , Chinese cabbage, basil, beans of all sorts except those that require really cold weather like broad beans, beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, capsicum and chilli,… View more
May Garden Guide Cool Climate (Cover image credit: Uplift Farm Blog) What to Plant in May? All the things we talked about last month are good to go again this month. Garlic, brassicas such as broccoli and cauliflower, broad beans, peas (sugar snaps, snow peas or podding peas, either climbing or bush varieties), silver beet, English… View more
April Garden Guide Tropical Climate What To Plant in April? • What to plant is determined by the weather. My notes are relevant to the areas where you plant the tomatoes in the dry season. This is my test of whether it is a sub-tropical or tropical climate. Tomatoes planted for the wet season will grow long… View more
April Garden Guide Mediterranean Climate Veggies and Flowers to Plant in April Veg: Artichoke & asparagus crowns, beetroot, broad beans (S), carrots (S); broccoli, Brussels sprout, cabbage, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, endive, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, onions, radish, rocket, silverbeet, spinach, swede, turnip, watercress (S = seed) Flowers: pansy, viola, cineraria, cyclamen, nemesia, primula, stock, sweet pea. Spring-flowering bulbs… View more
April Garden Guide Cool Climate What to Plant in April? Hard neck garlic (the ones that have a flower stalk) can be planted this month, and also into May. Soft neck garlic is usually planted in May – June. Its best to break up the heads into individual cloves the night before or morning of planting, as… View more
March Garden Guide Tropical Climate What To Plant in March? • Now may be the end of the wet season or it may not be. The turmeric (Curcuma domestica) and krachai (Boesenbergia rotunda) have flowered, which may indicate confused plants or the end of the wet season. I sometimes act on the assumption that the dry is… View more
March Garden Guide Mediterranean Climate Veggies and flowers to plant in March Vegetables: Asian greens, beetroot, beans, broad beans, carrots (all S); broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, endive, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, onions, radish, rocket, silverbeet, spinach, swede, turnip, watercress Flowers: pansy, viola, cineraria, poppy, primula, snapdragon, stock, sweet pea (S = seed, A = advanced… View more
March Garden Guide Cool Temperate Climate What To Plant in March? Cooling weather (perhaps . . . if you had a decent summer), shorter days, the Autumn equinox: March is something of a transition month in the productive garden. Many summer vegies are starting to look pretty tatty, even though still churning out their bounty. Its still… View more
Live in a mediterranean climate of Australia? Our February Garden Guide will tell you what you should be planting throughout the month.
Live in a tropical climate region of Australia? Our February Garden Guide will tell you what you should be planting throughout the month.
Hidden Garden Sustainable Farm – Christmas Island Investing in the Future of Food The team behind what is arguably the model of future farming, believe people should have the opportunity to put fresh food on their plates no matter where they live, and that it shouldn’t cost the earth – either financially or ecologically. Christmas Island… View more
Our January gardening guide will tell you what you need to do in your garden this time of year, depending on which climate zone you’re in.
I am so excited by my garden at the moment. Our berries are doing tag teams supplying us with juicy nutritious snacks; first it was the strawberries in the aquaponics, now it’s the mulberries from our smallish yet abundant tree and next it will rasberries, which are just showing the first blushes of colour. … View more
Our November garden guide will tell you what you need to do in your garden this time of year, depending on which climate zone you’re in.
Whether homegrown, shop bought or wild harvested – get yourself some mushrooms and whip up this delicious mushroom pate recipe… pronto!
Well we’re in the full swing of production mode again pulling together articles for issue three. It’s going to be another cracker. Issue two is selling well and can be found at stockists around the country. Here is one of our newest stockists in Sydney; Orchard St, Elixir Bar. We also held our first course here… View more
Our October Gardening Guide is here, with all you need to know about what to do in your garden this time of year, depending on which climate zone you’re in.
[h4]MEDITERRANEAN climate[/h4] Zone 0: Just when I ought to be getting my spring planting organised, I’m preoccupied with heading off for permaculture training – more on that later! Zone 1: Raised garden beds have had a quick sprinkle of seeds for a few more leafy greens before they get warm enough for the solanum vegies. The… View more
Things just seem to going off here at the moment. I had the realisation that this is the first Spring we have had on the property that we haven’t been building the house, hence for once we are actually semi-organised and prepared. Thanks to the greenhouse we have our seedlings happily growing away getting a… View more
