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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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It’s that time of the year where we’re putting the call out for our next batch of garden hosts to feature in our 7th Home Harvest Edible Garden Trail!! That’s right, it’s been seven years of garden glory. Enormous thanks to the City of Hobart for their ongoing support – we couldn’t do it without you! To […]

You would think having a lovely garden to sit in, you would find me regularly resting there. You would think. However, the one curse of being a gardener, even one with ME, is that after five minutes of sitting there ...

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