We had a sunny morning for our garden session with twenty-two adults and two children coming to enjoy some time working in the garden. We welcomed Kathy as a new member. Snapshot This week, we again continued removing ageing warm season plants. The soil was very dry after some warm days and plants badly needed some watering. Harvest Our tomato plants, which are mostly cherry tomato varieties, are still producing fruit – and some pests are still finding some of them! We also harvested some spaghetti squash, beans (French beans and snake beans), cucumbers, Warrigal greens, sorrel and quite a fe ..read more

The morning was very humid, began cloudy and became very warm. Twenty-six adults and one child came out to work in the garden. Snapshot Today, we continued removing our ageing warm season plants. Lots of the sunflowers had blown over and were removed too. We are working towards our autumn planting. Harvest Our harvest included some of our several varieties of tomato – with and without caterpillar and fruit fly damage! We also harvested some beans, basil, land cress, Warrigal greens, sorrel, cucumbers, galangal, chickory, Vietnamese mint and sunflowers. Some of our harvest is in the photo below ..read more

On 15th January, it was a sunny and warm morning in the garden with 25 adults and five children spending time working with the plants. The following Sunday, 22nd January, was showery but 17 adults optimistically came to the garden. The showers persisted and not much gardening was done in the end! Snapshot On both days, plants that were past their prime or heavily attacked by pests or disease were removed. Sunflowers that overshadowed other plants and deprived them of light were also removed. Some sunflowers provided nice flower heads for a vase arrangement. Harvest As in recent weeks, we harve ..read more

A fine morning brought out twenty-one adults and two children to work in the garden. It was great to see familiar faces again and to have a big group coming together once more now that lots of people are back from their recent festivities! Snapshot Some recent rain meant the soil in the garden beds wasn’t bone dry, so heavy watering wasn’t needed. Some plants that had come to the end of their prime were removed and garden beds were generally tidied up. Harvest As we have of late, we harvested some beans and green leaves (tatsoi, Cos lettuce, sorrel, mizuna, purslane, basil and some other herbs ..read more

It was a sunny and warm morning to start the New Year. Thirteen adults and two children spent time working in the garden. Snapshot Watering, applying worm juice and harvesting were the main activities of the morning. Harvest We harvested green and purple beans, sorrel, tatsoi, cos lettuce, mizuna, purslane, along with various herbs, including basil, sage, oregano and Vietnamese mint. Sowing and planting Some tatsoi seedlings were thinned out and moved to give them all a better chance to develop to a decent size. Special mention Michael has dug some compost into the bed we recently harvested po ..read more

With some light showers in the morning on 18th December, twelve adults and two children came to the garden to work. Luckily, the weather fined up for our solstice party in the late afternoon – more on this below! On 25th December, most people had other engagements and we had seven adults and one child spending a relaxed couple of hours working. Snapshot Harvesting beans, watering and feeding plants, along with some transplanting seedlings, is the usual routine at the moment. The sunflowers keep growing at a stunning pace! Harvest On 18th December, we harvested mostly beans, cucumbers, mizuna ..read more

Today the weather was sunny and warm. Nineteen adults and two children worked in the garden. Some more people came to watch the hive of native stingless bees being opened. Snapshot The usual warm weather activities of watering, weeding and thinning out and moving seedlings were the main jobs today. Harvest We got a few handfuls of both green and purple beans, a few cucumbers, rhubarb, celery, lettuce, sorrel, purslane, basil, sage and other herbs. Some more potatoes that were missed in the dig last week were found today too! Sowing and planting We planted some bought French marigold seedlings ..read more

On this sunny and warm morning, twenty adults worked in the garden. Snapshot Watering, particularly the trees in the large wicking pots, was the first job. We did a little seed sowing and thinning and moving seedlings. Picking lots of beans and digging up potatoes were the main rewards today. Harvest A good amount of beans, both Stringless Pioneer and Purple King, was picked. We also harvested the last of the silverbeet, some mizuna, tatsoi, Amish Deer Tongue lettuce, golden streaks, ruby streaks, garlic (hopefully the last green shoots) and basil (Green and Thai). The main harvesting effort w ..read more

Today we had 22 adults and two children working in the garden. We welcomed Lea, her daughter Zoey and son Sol as new members. They have recently arrived from Brazil, where they ran a permaculture farm for six years. Snapshot Much the same as last week, there was plenty of watering to be done, weeds to pull out, tired plants to pick and remove and some sowing to do. The trees in wicking beds have been drying out quite quickly in the warm and breezy weather and need regular watering! Seedlings of various plants all needed some Charlie Carp fertiliser to give them a boost (it gives plants mostly ..read more

It was a warm and windy day but the wind didn’t deter 26 members from working in the garden this morning. Snapshot The recent warm weather – and wind – has really started to dry out the soil quickly, so watering will be the main job to keep on top of into the approaching summer. Weeds and various seedlings germinating from old seeds in the compost are also appearing and need to be removed. Older leafy greens were removed today, as some of them become less tasty as the weather warms up. Areas cleared out had fertilisers and compost dug in and some new plantings were done. The grapevine was prun ..read more