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Chop and Drop

January 17, 2011 by Darren

By “chopping and dropping” your weeds you not only mulch and return nutrients to the soil, but you avoid disturbing the soil surface and prevent more weed seeds germinating.

Posted in: Growing Food, Permaculture Tagged: mulch, Permaculture, vegetable garden, weeds

Weekly Roundup – Mulch Paths, Tinyhouses, and More Pigs

November 29, 2010 by Darren

Items of note I read this week: mulched garden paths, sub-acre agriculture, tiny houses, a DIY first aid kit, and lots of backyard pig-raising.

Posted in: Weekly Roundup Tagged: garden beds, gardening, mulch, pigs, sustainability

Jamberoo Community Growers – Don Cairns Talk

June 7, 2010 by Darren

What a great turnout we had at yesterday’s Jamberoo Community Growers meeting! Don Cairns, former resident of Kiama and Kangaroo Valley and now living in Nowra, gave an excellent talk about growing food through the season. Don has been gardening for many years, and understands our climate and weather patterns very well. His tips and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Events, Growing Food, Illawarra Organisations Tagged: broccoli, compost, gardening, jamberoo, Jamberoo Community Growers, lettuces, mulch, seedlings, tomato, vegies

Planting Out Fruit Trees

January 22, 2009 by Darren

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 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Growing Food, Super Challenge Tagged: avocado tree, citrus trees, compost, feijoas, fig tree, fruit trees, garden beds, lime tree, mandarin tree, mulch, mushroom compost, orange tree, straw mulch, strawberry patch, Super Challenge, Sustainable Illawarra, white mulberry tree, Wollongong Wholesale Nursery, zucchini

Growing Mushrooms From Spent Mushroom Compost

January 17, 2009 by Darren

Bags of mushroom compost are cheap, and will grow more mushrooms than those expensive kits you can buy at chain stores. And the fresh mushrooms they grow taste incredible!

Posted in: Growing Food Tagged: compost, freezer, freezing mushrooms, growing mushrooms, mulch, mushroom compost, mushroom farm, mushroom kits, mushrooms, preserving mushrooms

Front Yard Makeover

January 7, 2009 by Darren

When we did our house extensions about 5 years ago, we didn’t really do much with the front yard. We always meant to come back to it someday, but never quite got around to it. We never bothered to plant much in the way of trees and shrubs either, since we didn’t want them to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Growing Food, Permaculture Tagged: compost, fruit trees, green manure, kembla grange, mulch, mushroom compost, potatoes, preparing gardens, terraced gardens

Sydney Water “Love Your Garden” Review

November 1, 2008 by Darren

Yesterday we had our [Sydney Water “Love Your Garden”](http://www.sydneywater.com.au/SavingWater/InYourGarden/LoveYourGarden/) session. For $33, a qualified horticulturalist comes and inspects your garden and gives you advice on its watering needs. Our horticulturalist (let’s call her Linda) arrived bang on time. She was very friendly and knowledgeable, and understood right away where we were coming from. I explained … [Read more…]

Posted in: Growing Food, Illawarra Businesses, Water Tagged: bird's nest fern, chicken manure, citrus trees, clivia, compost, cow manure, fruit trees, garden watering, greywater, horticulturalist, Love Your Garden, lucerne, mulch, organic gardening, Permaculture, rain gauge, rainwater collection, soil test, square foot gardening, sugar cane mulch, Sydney Water, tap tags, tomato, vegetable garden, wicking boxes
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