Now here’s an odd thing. A while ago now one of the women at our community gardens announced that each week, she would leave a box in the pergola and any of us who had surplus crops could put stuff in it. This would be taken to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. I thought it was […]
This morning I pulled the first wonderful sweet carrots of the season. In celebration, and knowing that lots of people have trouble getting carrots underway, I thought I would share my method. This has worked for me in several different gardens, ranging from sandy acid soil to sandy alkaline and now to my present acid […]
Just a quick post to recommend two books by Peter Timms, a wise and wonderful gardener who writes lovely witty prose. He now lives in Tasmania, but used to live in Victoria, where he wreote his first gardening book “Making Nature”. You can read an extract here (http://www.austlit.com/chapters/timms-origins.html)
The book that has prompted me to write […]
Happy as a pig am I, filthy dirty and planting things. I went to the garden nursery today and lashed out on four new window box style pots to go on the ledge by our sundeck. And, must as I usually despise the “instant everything” approach of garden centres, I bought a brace of their […]
My worms had a close call today. The temperature topped 39 degrees Celsius - or over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, for those of you still working in the old measure. We were flaked out inside when I suddenly realised the worm farm was standing in full sun. Yikes! We remember with horror last summer, when the […]
When I was newly pregnant with my first child, Clare, I remember looking through the early spring crop of seed catalogues with fear in my heart. After all, so many seeds fail to grow. Some rot. Some push out tender green shoots and the snails finish them off. Some fail for unaccountable reasons, and you […]
Most mornings for the last three years I have taken the dog for a run in the park on my way to the veggie patch in the community gardens. Flash, my dog, runs very fast. She is a cross between a cattle dog and a Labrador, and although most of the time the dozy Lab […]
One of my favourite cookery writers, Geoff Slattery, once said that if the former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam had been a vegetable, he would have been an eggplant, but that he would have called himself an aubergine.
I know what he meant. The kingly purple, the elegant curves of the leaves, their fussy, arrogant ways…but […]
In winter I ordered packets and packets of seed. Far more than I can use. In dreamland by the fire in the coldest days there is no thought of the weeding, the digging and the watering that will be needed to get them all growing.
In winter it seems logical to plan for fifteen different varieties […]
How does anyone write who does not garden? Whenever I hit a block with my other writing (www.margaretsimons.com.au) I go out, pull a few weeds, stand and watch the tomatoes ripen, or give the compost a twirl with the worm. Even if it doesn’t work, it still helps quell the panic of the blank white […]
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