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“Serious question: Does this person actually have training or education in anything apart from permaculture modules?” Luke Roberts A fair enough question that was asked on my facebook page. One that was sometimes thrown at me in the past with derogatory undertones – not saying that this is the case here. In general, I don’t […]

A few years ago, in a previous garden, I was trying to grow a Clematis and it just wasn’t growing well. After two seasons, the growth was still weak and it wasn’t flowering. Puzzling over this, it suddenly hit me ...

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Makrut lime (Citrus hystrix), is native to range of places across Southeast Asia and southern China and is commonly known as kaffir lime across the world. However in recent decades there is an ongoing shift back to using one of its traditional names instead (the Thai name, makrut lime) due to political and racial associations. Why? […]

We’ve just wrapped up our 7th Home Harvest edible garden trail. Supported by the City of Hobart, it’s always a brilliant day with hundreds of highlight excited and pumped gardeners hitting up some of the best edible garden in and around Nipaluna/Hobart. Sometimes I struggle to describe WHY this is such a good event. So […]

Late winter is the time of stillness in the garden, when the earth rests and retreats within itself. ;

Whenever I’m asked what’s the first thing to do in the garden, my response is: take a picture. Why? Because gardening is work, and gardeners have a tendency towards focussing on all those ‘just jobs‘ that need doing, and they ...

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Whilst I harvested my garlic back in July, I only got around to cleaning, sorting and recording the results recently. This year I had tried 8 new cultivars and of those, I’m saving the best of 4, maybe 5, to ...

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