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An Australian family trying to go a little greener

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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

Potato Harvest

December 16, 2008 by Darren

Sarah and I dug up the potato bed this afternoon. We got just under 6 kg of small to medium sized potatoes. There were a lot of very small bite-sized ones, so we’ll be cooking them up first. I think we planted the Dutch Cream seed potatoes in late September or early October. We planted … [Read more…]

Posted in: Growing Food Tagged: Dutch Cream potatoes, mushroom compost, potato harvest, potato plants, potatoes, seed potatoes

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