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Haopy gardening
Robyn
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Clever vegetable garden design will always ensure you achieve healthy plants and an abundance of food. I guess it might take another vegetable gardener to appreciate just how lovely it is to visit someone’s home for dinner and wander out with the host to their garden and help select fresh produce for the meal. There is nothing in the world like it in my opinion. Continue reading Good vegetable garden plans produce an abundance of food I finally learned how to make Risotto! May seem like a small thing to those of you who already knew but I had been trying for years to make a decent one and failed every time. I even paid and went to an evening cooking class to learn but walked away defeated. Well, life has changed let me tell you. Continue reading Basil and Tomato Risotto It seems many of our house sits these days also include looking after chooks (hens, chickens,fowl). It certainly adds a lot of flavor to gardening when you can use their manure for compost and they also help by keeping garden pests under control. Recently we returned to one of our rural house sits. In July 2009 apart from looking after many farm animals we were also caring for five chooks. At that time they were certainly alive and very healthy, laying eggs daily. However, by January 2010 three had ‘fallen off the perch’ (died) and the remaining two had stopped laying eggs as ‘they were too old now’. Continue reading Chooks falling off the perch With mulch the use of the word organic comes from fact the ingredients have derived from living organisms, that is, they originate from animal or vegetable life, it has nothing to do with the health of the mulch at all. My intention in writing this article is to help clean up any confusions that exist about the way in which advertisers use the word organic in regard to mulch. If it once lived or is still living, then it can be called Organic. Well, it’s not as complicated as you might think. Anything, and I mean anything at all that has lived at one time or another can rightly be called organic. If it has come originally from a plant or animal it is organic. A piece of wood that has survived a nuclear explosion it can be called Organic. Here is the crunch, it doesn’t matter if the item has been drenched in pesticides, herbicides, poisons, petrochemicals, even survived a nuclear explosion, if it has once lived it can rightly be called organic. Continue reading Difference between Organic Mulch and Certified Organic Mulch One of the key components of any Permaculture course is about learning how to grow some of your own food from your own garden. It is possible to supply approximately 80% of your annual food requirements within 50 metres of your home. Think about that, 80% of your food would be organically grown, chemical free, herbicide free, pesticide free. You would be regenerating the soil, creating new life where once only lawn, weeds, cement, concrete or paths existed. That has to be good for the environment and importantly good for you and your family. |
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