72.6mm of rain in a week. Why I wait four days before planting into wet clay.
Southeast Queensland tracked 72.6mm over seven days in mid-July, with rain probability sitting at 37% most days. That’s not a top up on already…
Category: Garden Stories
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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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37.7°C and zero rain in Alice Springs. Why I pull lettuce before it bolts.
37.7°C average max, 22.2°C average min, 16% rain chance, 0.0 mm total. That was the Red Centre forecast for Alice Springs and Tennant Creek…
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Perth’s zero millimetre week: why I’m mulching heavier and watering less often
Zero. That was the 7 day rain total for Perth, Fremantle and Mandurah in mid-July. Rain probability sat at 6 percent, average max climbing…
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Would a Community Food Forest Actually Work? What the Research Says
Swapping over the fence beats planting a public food forest and hoping for the best. A post did the rounds recently asking whether a…