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Mother Earth’s Garden

Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category

December 21st, 2006

Parsnips

In my vegetable patch, one plant towers over all the rest - taller than the beans, the tomatoes and even the dwarf apple tress. It is the parsnip I grew from seed two seasons ago. It takes up a whole corner of the garden. I fancy the root must now be thicker than my leg, […]

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December 15th, 2006

Refugees and gardening

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 […]

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December 15th, 2006

How to grow carrots

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 […]

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