One Bag of Seed Potatoes Beats a Winter of Shop-Bought Spuds
Gardening Australia’s latest guide backs something I already tell every grower who asks me about winter crops. Potatoes are one of the best value…
Category: Garden Stories
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Brisbane’s Getting 72.6mm This Week. I Wouldn’t Plant Seedlings Into That Ground on Saturday.
Southeast Queensland is tracking 72.6mm over the next seven days, with rain probability sitting at 37% most days. That’s not a top up on…
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Scarlet Runner Beans: An Ornamental Bred for Flowers That Ended Up Outyielding My Whole Bean Patch
I put scarlet runner beans in a trial bed two seasons back expecting a novelty vine with red flowers. I got 4kg of beans…
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A Snath Long Enough at Last, and the Animals That Close the Circle
My new scythe snath is finally long enough, so the grass gets cut by hand and goes straight to the animals. A few words…
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Food Prices Could Double This Year. Here’s What To Plant Before That Lands.
Schroders, the global investment firm, has modelled a specific number: food prices in advanced economies could double within about a year if this El…
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A Cold Start, a New Onion Bed and Another Silverbeet Glut
A cold morning start, a second attempt at onions in stubborn clay soil, and a silverbeet glut that keeps giving. Here’s the full method…
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The El Niño Outlook Says Dry. Here’s What I’m Planting Before the Shelf Notices
I checked my own price tracker before I sat down to write this. Nothing has moved yet. No spike, no shortage, nothing on the…
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One Garlic Bed, $2,955: What Happens When You Actually Fill In the Planner
A three-and-a-half-minute screen recording shows exactly how the Garden Buddy Planner works: draw a bed, drop in a crop, and watch the live dollar…
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Alice Springs Hits 37.7°C With Zero Rain This Week, and I’m Pulling My Lettuce Before Saturday
37.7°C average max, 22.2°C average min, 16% rain chance, 0.0 mm total. That’s the Red Centre forecast I’m looking at for Alice Springs and…
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Perth’s zero millimetre week: why I’m mulching heavier and watering less often
Zero. That’s the 7 day rain total I’m looking at for Perth, Fremantle and Mandurah right now. Rain probability sits at 6 percent, average…