I haven’t worn pantyhose since I was in my 20s. There was a feeling of great liberation when I turned 30 and decided that I no longer needed to make myself uncomfortable for the sake of appearances. I have never regretted my decision, except…
when the tomatoes are sprawling everywhere because I have nothing stretchy with […]
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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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 […]
Today, a sad executive decision. We will plant nothing new until the drought is over. The thought of spending water on plants, then being forced to let them die is too sad for words.
Already we are finding it difficult to keep the vegetable patches watered, given that we are only allowed to do it on […]
People have been suggesting to me recently that I must know more about gardening than I pretend.
I don’t think this is true, but I suppose it is not the kind of thing on which a judgement can sensibly be made. When the amount to be known is infinite, we are all ignorant no matter […]
High summer, and normally I would expect to be spending my days in the shade while the garden burgeons without much effort from me, other than watering. This is the season of easy living, when the zucchini are embarrassing in shape and profusion, and it is too hot to bake zucchini cake. Summer is […]
I don’t like gardening columns that give me lists of things to do appropriate to the season. I rarely get to do them, or else they are done at the very last minute, when the efficacy is all but gone.
I don’t like the aspirational approach to gardening. Just like over-thin models, pictures of supposed perfection […]
Put your tomatoes in the ground on Grand Final Day, (mid Spring here in Melbourne) and harvest the first ones in time for the Christmas table. Well, we didn’t quite make it, but today we picked our first fully formed, perfect, glossy skinned tomatoes. There were a few earlier ones, it is true, but the […]
I am worried about my eggplant. I put them in at the beginning of summer, but they are still little stunted things. Certainly they are flowering, but there is no sign of the big purple fruits I adore. None of my gardening books help. Could it be that the soil needs more care? I doubt […]
It’s hard to believe that a few days ago Melbourne was shrouded in smoke from the bushfires burning all round the city, and that it seemed as though it would never rain again. For weeks now our parks and gardens have been brown and dessicated. Even the eucalypt trees are showing signs of water stress […]
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