Two Weeks In: Oregano Germination Check at the GardenBuddy’s Cairns Plot
Fifteen days since I put the Tropical Greek oregano seed down in the GardenBuddy’s Cairns plot, and it’s a mixed picture. Not a clean…
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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Skip Hardening Off and You’ll Lose Half Your Tray in 48 Hours
I’ve watched a full tray of tomato seedlings go from upright to flat and bleached in under two days because I rushed this step.…
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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…
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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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GardenBuddy’s Cairns Plot: Daikon at 33 Days
Thirty three days in and the Minowase Summer Cross in GardenBuddy’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 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…
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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 GardenBuddy’s Sydney patch, 45 days to harvest
I sowed Cos Verdi spinach into GardenBuddy’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…