Couldn’t help but notice this wonderful sounding job as a “seed manager”. I’m trying to finish a book at the moment, and admittedly even tidying my sock drawer seems more attractive - nevertheless I am really tempted. Hmmm
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What, oh what, to do with too many zucchini?
1. chop them up fine and put them on the compost heap (my children’s suggestion. They don’t like zucchini.)
2. Make lots of zucchini cake and freeze it for later (the kids will eat this, particularly with ice cream)
3. Grate them into salads, hamburgers and bolognaise sauce. (Got […]
How’s this for a man who understood gardening? This is from “Leaves of Grass” the wonderful epic poem by the famous Walt Whitman. I love it.
This Compost
(from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman)
Something startles me where I thought I was safest;
I withdraw from the still woods I loved;
I will not go now on the pastures […]
I met Gertrude, the matriach of the community gardens, yesterday on my morning walk, and commented to her how hard it is to keep the vegetable patch alive on two waterings a week. She put her head on one side (her little dog, who always follows her, did likewise) fixed me with a stare and […]
Shameless promotion of family members here, but my Dad has written a book! It has almost nothing about gardening in it…but hey, there are other things in life (I suppose).
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What a stinking hot day! My pansies were wilting by lunchtime, when the temperature was close to forty degrees celsius, and who can blame them. I felt almost like an angel of mercy giving them a drink this morning.
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Imagine how the country will look by the end of summer. Frankly I can’t. It is already so grizzled, and we are only at the beginning of the journey that will take us, eventually, to rain and normality. If it can ever be normal again.
Even the native trees - big eucalypts that have surely survived […]
The eggs of the cabbage white butterfly are yellow-green, oval, and slightly larger than a grain of sand. The moths lay them in enormous numbers mostly on the underside of leaves. On a sunny day like today I can see the butterflies hovering over cabbages, radishes and broccoli.
I go down to the garden at dusk […]
I have been asked to write a few words about my favourite method for making compost. This is complicated. For a start, I do not advise counsels of perfection. If I give a method, then I will give the impression that I always follow it, and that it always works.
This would be less than honest. […]
How many people knew that George Washington was not only the first United States president, but even more importantly (IMHO) a compost pioneer?
Washington was, reliable accounts suggest, a practical man noted for his good sense and management ability, rather than for fine oratory or sentiment or priggishness of the “Father, I cannot tell a lie” […]
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