One Garlic Bulb and Three Chillies Makes Enough Spray for About 20 Plants
One bulb of garlic, three fresh chillies and a litre of water gets me roughly a litre of spray, enough for a proper going…
Garden Buddy News
The latest from the patch: what is spiking at the shops, what to plant now, and everything Buddy is learning in the demo garden.
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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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Buddy’s Cairns Plot: Daikon at 33 Days
Thirty three days in and the Minowase Summer Cross in Buddy’s Cairns plot has stopped looking like a seedling and started looking like an…
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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…
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Twenty minutes for a basket: my June silverbeet harvest, and everything I have learned about growing it
Twenty minutes in the June patch and I came back with a whole basket of silverbeet. How to grow, pick, cook and keep the…
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How I cut my seedling costs to almost nothing with a three ingredient mix
A bag of commercial seed raising mix runs about $8 to $12 at the garden centre. I make roughly the same volume for the…
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Cos Verdi spinach into Buddy’s Sydney patch, 45 days to harvest
I sowed Cos Verdi spinach into Buddy’s Sydney patch this morning, 10 June, with first cutting pencilled in for 25 July. That’s about 45…
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Grapefruit at $3.91/kg: I’m Watching a 30% Drop
Grapefruit dropped to a $3.91/kg seven-day mean this week. That’s down 30.1% from the 23-day baseline of $5.59/kg. On a 5kg bag for the…
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Garlic Is Up 28.9% in a Week. I’d Plant My Own
$57.02 a kilo. That’s what garlic averaged over the past seven days in my price database, up 28.9% on the 23 day baseline of…
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The plant Columbus brought back was considered decorative for decades before cooks worked out what to do with it
Chilli peppers originated in what is now Bolivia and southern Brazil. Archaeobotanists have found evidence of cultivation going back at least 6,000 years. By…
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Tomatillo Diary: Day 15 in Buddy’s Cairns Plot
Fifteen days since I sowed the Cos Verdi tomatillo in Buddy’s Cairns plot. I walked the rows this morning with the magnifying glass out.…
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Cucumber’s Down 20.8%. Here’s Where the Cheap Ones Are.
The 7-day mean for cucumber sits at $9.84/kg. That’s down 20.8% on the 23-day baseline of $12.43/kg, so I’ve been watching this one drop…