Category: growing
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Want a free Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box?
Well of course you do! Life Cykel and growitcatchitcookit.com have a Home Grown Mushroom Box to give away to one lucky Western Australian resident. Submit your favourite mushroom recipe for your chance to win. Special guest blogger ‘Welchy’ is going to choose the winner on 20th June 2016. I know she will be looking for recipes that use…
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PK Reviews: Life Cykel Home Grown Mushroom Box
Julian Mitchell and Ryan Creed are doing amazing things over at LifeCykel. Based in Fremantle, Western Australia and with an ethos of growing food in a sustainable way, they have created the world’s first urban mushroom farm. The amazing thing is that their growing medium is coffee grounds collected from local businesses. They even go…
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Make Tea, Kill Weeds!
I just wanted to share a chemical free way of killing weeds. This tip is great for those tenacious weeds growing in brick paving or growing right next to another plant. I guess you just have to weigh up for yourself the cost to the planet to use and boil the water vs the chemicals, water,…
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Curry Leaf Tree (Murraya koenigii)
I love this tree. The sight of it and the smell it releases when you brush past it make me smile. It can be hard to find in a nursery and they are not cheap. I got mine from Bunnings as a small seedling and resisting the temptation to harvest it too early took a…
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Curry Leaf Trees
I love curry leaf trees. The sight and the aroma they release when you brush past them make me smile. They can be hard to find in a nursery and they are not cheap. I got mine from Bunnings as a small seedling. I am keeping it to less than two meters tall through regular…
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Bucket Pond Make And Manage
I just can’t bring myself to like mosquitoes. They suck your blood, make you itch and can give you some nasty diseases. Certainly entry grounds into my BadCritters club :). So I take much pleasure in my bucket pond’s mosquito killing power. It was so easy and cheap to make. Maintenance varies from rarely to…
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Marjoram
Marjoram is a member of the same genus as Oregano and has a similar flavour but is milder. Like oregano it is easy to grow. It is an ingredient in ‘Italian Herbs’ and ‘Herbes de Provence’, both popular spice mixes. I use it primarily in pasta sauces and sprinkled over pizzas. If you are starting…
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PK’s Working Garden
A working home garden (or kitchen garden) is one where the emphasis is on the growing of herbs, vegetables and fruit. There may also be areas for composting and hopefully a system of natural pest management aka insecticide free bug control. They can be just as visually appealing as any other type of garden. However, their…
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Limes
I love cooking with Persian limes (these are a common cultivar in Australia) just as much as I do sharing limes from the tree in my kitchen garden. No one in Perth will turn down the offer of a bag of limes. Fresh lime juice, zest and leaves are essential to southeast asian cooking so I…
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Lime Common
I love cooking with limes (and adding slices of them to Gin and Tonics) just as much as I do sharing limes from the tree in my kitchen garden. No one in Perth will turn down a home grown lime, they are that prized. There is even a lime tree in my driveway ,that is constantly…
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