Food According to Coturnix Quail I’d rather be writing about what quail eat than what eat quail! Poor little guys don’t have much luck out in the wild. They die quick, mate quick, live quick, eat quick. Quack quick. This quote about them sums it up so well (author unknown): BASICALLY AS I HAVE SAID MANY … Continue reading »
What, wood? For the younger generations, wood is that somewhat archaic substance that comes from trees. It is what things used to be made of before the world got its act together and started producing plastic… for everything… For older inhabitants of planet Earth, wood remains a material that is still incredibly useful thanks to … Continue reading »
A tribute to the pumpkin of 2012 – fun to grow, more fun to eat! Continue reading »
I had heard about aquaponics from some gardening friends and the idea stayed with me long enough to do something about. This long cold Melbourne Winter has been an opportune time to assemble a wonderful collection of posts about my experiences with an aquaponics method for food production. These will be published in an almost sequential order … Continue reading »
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for most plants, which is why it is in most non-organic fertilizers. If you keep an organic garden, however, you have to find other ways to add nitrogen. A couple of plants, like beans, are able to convert nitrogen from its atmospheric form and “fix” it in the soil for … Continue reading »
In June 2011, this was the closest I came to eating the first fruit off my Fig Black Genoa. But those hopes were dashed you see. Winter stopped them growing any further, and then some bloody rodent came along and finished the job. So now it is Autumn 2012, and what do we have here? … Continue reading »
OK folks – Hit the arrow just below and let’s get started. We got us some work to do… I picked up three IBC containers recently, two of which are going into an aquaponics setup. The third one is going to help me with a drip system for the fruit trees and vegetables, and at … Continue reading »
Once you’ve become aware of the sheer volume of material we send to landfill day in day out, you soon become wary of throwing anything away, even if it can’t be recycled. Food waste, for example, generally makes up a large part of what we end up sending to landfill sites. Whilst, we can’t ‘recycle’ food waste … Continue reading »
Leafmold is a wonderful material and this is not the first time in covering it on the site. This is a series of photos that show just how easy it can be to produce leafmold fit for the garden. So here is all what you need to make it: A big black plastic bag of … Continue reading »
