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I'm Kath Irvine. I've been growing all the vegetables to feed my family of 6 for 20 good years. Subscribe for your monthly shot of edible backyard inspiration! My seasonal tips, monthly calendar, and all the know how you need to keep your garden productive + healthy.
Edible Backyard Blog
2d ago
Edible Backyard
May in the Vegie Patch, Prep Asparagus for Spring + Manure 101
It’s easy when its cold out, to ignore your vegie patch. I mean, plants don’t need watering at this time of year do they? The answer, my friends, is unique […]
May in the Vegie Patch, Prep Asparagus for Spring + Manure 101
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Edible Backyard Blog
2d ago
Edible Backyard
May In The Vegie Patch + Greenhouse
As the vegie garden missions slow down, get stuck in and make lots of compost! There’s heaps of finished summer crops/ flowers/ perennials about, providing a bounty of ingredients – […]
May In The Vegie Patch + Greenhouse
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Edible Backyard Blog
2d ago
Edible Backyard
May Fruit Tree To Do List
May is the month to get prep’d for fruit + shelter + fun tree planting. A little bit of tree research goes such a long way! Do it! As does […]
May Fruit Tree To Do List
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Edible Backyard Blog
2d ago
Edible Backyard
Manure 101
Manure is part of natures deft design – we eat the food that grew on the ground that’s fertilised by the manure which began as the food – such an […]
Manure 101
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Edible Backyard Blog
1M ago
Edible Backyard
April In The Vegie Patch
Out with the old and in with the new – now! Today! Or you’ll run out of grow time. Make space Whip around and chop down finished crops (hello compost […]
April In The Vegie Patch
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Edible Backyard Blog
1M ago
Edible Backyard
April Fruit Tree To Do List
This month is all about harvesting nuts, preparing deciduous fruit trees for winter, caring for citrus and planning new fruit/shelter/ nut trees. Citrus Care Young developing fruits alert you to […]
April Fruit Tree To Do List
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Edible Backyard Blog
1M ago
Edible Backyard
April In The Greenhouse
The greenhouse soil has worked hard in the summer heat, and needs a bit of love before planting the next lot of crops out. Create space As long as tomatoes, […]
April In The Greenhouse
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Edible Backyard Blog
1M ago
Edible Backyard
Step by Step to a Perfectly Fed Vegie Patch
Overfeeding is easily done. Surrounded as we are, by seductive marketing and miracle soil food. Home gardeners fertilise wildly, mostly because there’s no business bottom line, but also, please forgive […]
Step by Step to a Perfectly Fed Vegie Patch
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Edible Backyard Blog
1M ago
Edible Backyard
What is humus
Humus is the end result of fully decomposed organic matter (which I like to call OM to save typing.) Humus is Humus is the perfect environment for biology to thrive […]
What is humus
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Edible Backyard Blog
2M ago
Edible Backyard
March In The Vegie Patch + Greenhouse
Clear starry nights, cool, dewy mornings and that special golden hue in the evening sky are all signs that Autumn is moving in. The cooler mornings and nights slowly begin […]
March In The Vegie Patch + Greenhouse
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