Category: growing
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GoodCritters: Western Honey Bee
Bees are one of my favourite insects. They have co-evolved with flowering plants and their benefit to your garden can not be overstated. So you can definitely say that humans and bees have a strong relationship albeit pretty one sided. The species of bee that we all recognise on sight is not native to Australia…
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Komatsuna
This really easy to grow leafy green will add that bit of special to your salads and stir fries. Use it as a substitute for spinach or along side. It is also called Japanese mustard spinach and is heavily used in Japan and throughout Asia. I grow grow both green and red varieties (plants are…
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BadCritters: Common Garden Weevil
I actually think these little guys are cute but they still get an automatic squishing when I find them munching on my edible plants 🙂 . They leave tell tale little holes in the leaves of your greens, fruit trees, strawberries, beans, peas and the like. Their grubs live under ground munching on plant roots.…
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Can I Compost Weeds?
In my quest to keep up with my worm farms and compost bins I am always on the look out for new sources of vegetable matter. There is lots of conflicting opinion on using weeds in your compost. The fear being that the compost will then spread weeds anywhere you use it. I firmly believe…
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BadCritters: Small Pointed Snail
I don’t see many examples of this very shy BadCritter in my garden but I suspect there are lots of them hidden in the leaf litter. This one was munching on some radish leaves and his friends will like all of your leafy green edibles. Shame they are so cute but they are my radishes…
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BadCritters: Tiger Moth Caterpillar
The caterpillar of this BadCritter will munch your salad greens just as happily as your non-edibles. Their hairy bodies have given them the nickname ‘woolly bears’. I picked the caterpillar below of my snow pea plants and after its photo shoot it got dispatched 🙂 . Bit of a shame as they are amazing to…
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Snow Peas
Snow peas are one of my favourite edible plants to grow in my working garden. This annual flowering vine produces crisp edible pods and peas bursting with colour and flavour. My boys love picking the pods with me when we pop out to get fresh ingredients for salads, stir fries and curries. Taste/Aroma: Raw pods…
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Grow It
What to grow in Perth? Trying to work out what, when and where to plant in your working garden? Me too 🙂 With it’s Mediterranean climate we have to be ready for tricky growing conditions in Perth, so I present what I am doing throughout the year. I hope it guides and inspires others as…
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Radishes
Many varieties of this crisp and crunchy edible root can be grown all year round in Perth, Western Australia. They are very easy to grow and my children love watching their rapid growth and asking where Peter Rabbit is :). You can have fresh radishes all year round by simply planting a new batch every…
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Radishes: Grow And Eat
Many varieties of this crisp and crunchy edible root can be grown all year round in Perth, Western Australia. They are very easy to grow and my children love watching their rapid growth and asking where Peter Rabbit is :). You can have fresh radishes all year round by simply planting a new batch every…
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