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Monthly Archives: August 2014

This post is now a little old… please head over to our spring planting guide for a much more comprehensive wrap up of all the veggies you can plant in spring and how to go about it! Spring Planting Guide Ah spring. It feels like it’s finally here! This week […]

What to Plant in September for the Melbourne Region

This entry was posted in What to plant on August 29, 2014 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

Win a $100 Diggers Club Voucher with our free Zucchini Tromboncino Seeds — Zucchini Tromboncino is a heirloom vegetable common throughout Italy. Valued for its abundant, tasty harvests. It was developed in Liguria, in northern Italy. The fruit has a very pale green skin and can have varied faint white stripes like some zucchini varieties as well. The really nice thing about this […]

How to Grow Zucchini Tromboncino

This entry was posted in How to Grow on August 19, 2014 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

We may think we are nurturing our garden - Jenny Uglow — There have been some really inspiring gardening quotes and sayings from over the years. We regularly share quotes such as these on our Facebook Page. Here’s a compilation of some of our favourite ones for you to enjoy. Do you have a great gardening quote that we’ve missed out on? […]

Gardening Quotes and Sayings

This entry was posted in Media on August 14, 2014 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

It’s citrus time! Lemon, Orange, Lime, Mandarin and Cumquat trees all over Melbourne are heavily laden with ripe fruit. We’ve got heaps of lemons on our tree that need using. Last week we asked our Facebook Fans for some recipes to help use up our glut of lemons. Here’s what […]

Lemon Recipes

This entry was posted in Recipes on August 12, 2014 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

Images of tomato seedling planting times in Melbourne — The answer was that they represent some of the different methods that gardeners use to decide when to plant out their tomato seedlings into the garden. Some Gardeners consider it a great achievement if you can harvest a ripe tomato before Christmas. Many of you have your own traditions when […]

What do these 4 images have in common?

This entry was posted in How to Grow on August 10, 2014 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

Originally designed for use in Ethiopia, wicking beds aim to increase food production, while using approximately 50% less water. Think of them as a giant self-watering plant pot. Water is drawn up into the soil via capillary action from a reservoir in the bottom of the wicking bed. Crates, tanks, […]

Make Your Own Self-Watering Wicking Bed

This entry was posted in How to Grow How to make on August 2, 2014 by Leaf, Root & Fruit

This post is a little old now… please head over to our spring planting guide for a much more comprehensive wrap up of all the veggies you can plant in spring and how to go about it! Spring Planting Guide It’s August already… doesn’t time fly! In gardens all across […]

What to plant in August

This entry was posted in What to plant on August 1, 2014 by Leaf, Root & Fruit