Category: Growing Food
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Hand-Pollinating Zucchini Flowers
Hand-pollinating zucchini flowers helps to ensure the maximum possible harvest – this photo tutorial shows you how to do it.
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DIY Tumbling Compost Bin
Don’t spend hundreds of dollars on a store-bought tumbling compost bin – you can make one yourself for !
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Wicking Beds – Water Efficient Gardening
In our never-ending quest for more gardening space, I’m thinking of building some raised beds on top of the concrete in our backyard. A 2-foot-deep bed around the edge of the area wouldn’t impact our usable space much (we already have pots etc all around the edges), but would give us a fair bit of…
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Potato Harvest
Back in late January, I planted potatoes across the front of our yard. We had recently built the terraced garden beds and filled them with dirt (clay lumps) and stable sweepings. Potatoes are a great way to break up lumpy dirt, rot down manures, and generally improve the soil. Last Friday, Megan and I dug…
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Backyard Revolution – 60 Minutes Story
60 Minutes recently ran a story titled Backyard Revolution, about the growing (pardon the pun!) movement towards backyard vegie patches. Finally TV stations are joining us in the 21st century, so if you missed it you can watch the story [here](http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=797223). The story featured one of Australia’s most-loved TV gardening presenters, Peter Cundall, talking about…
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Backyard Aquaponics In Gerringong
A tour of John Burgess’s backyard aquaponics setup, where he grows fish and yabbies in tanks, supplying nutrient-rich water to organic fruit and vegetables.
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Lyn Bagnall Organic Gardening Book Competition
To celebrate its reprinting, Lyn Bagnall is [giving away](http://aussieorganicgardening.com/blog/?p=213) one free copy of her book __Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting__, along with 10 vouchers for $5 off the purchase price. All you have to do is email her and give your reason why, in 25 words or less, organic gardening/farming is best. You’ve got…
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Green Manure Crops
A green manure crop is really just anything you grow for a short while and then slash or dig into your soil before it gets a chance to set seed or fruit. Why would you do that? Lots of reasons! It helps by: – increasing organic matter in your soil (increasing nutrient content, aeration and…
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Ellendale Mandarin
Sometimes, it’s interesting to do a bit of background research on some of the plants and trees you grow. When choosing our mandarin variety, I did exactly that and found something with a little bit of Australian history to it. The mandarin I [planted a couple of days ago](http://green-change.com/2009/01/22/planting-out-fruit-trees/) is an Ellendale mandarin. It is…
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Planting Out Fruit Trees
On Sunday I drove up to the Wollongong Wholesale Nursery at Albion Park Rail to buy some fruit trees with my Sustainable Illawarra Super Challenge vouchers. The staff there were really helpful, and gave me some good ideas for the types of trees that would suit our needs for the front yard. I pretty much…