Down in the Garden – Time to Get shady
We all love more than a bit of sun and our gardens, particularly our veggie plots that would not thrive without it. But a balanced garden needs a bit of…
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Down in the Garden: How Companion Planting Works
Polyculture is the practice of planting combinations of plants for stronger, healthier growth and greater yields in productive agriculture. When we think of companion planting, often it is considered as…
Down In The Garden: Getting To Know Your Pollinators
The European Honeybee (Apis mellifera) gets a lot of great PR. They do a good job of pollinating plants and in providing the standard honey that most of us are…
Down in the Garden: Beautiful Beetroot
Most would agree that an Aussie burger (vegetarian or not!) would not be ‘True Blue’ without a slice of juicy beetroot. It is beloved in salads, roasted, in sandwiches and…
Down in the Garden: Growing garden climbers
Creating a wall of green to hide an ugly fence, covering a difficult patch of ground or making a pergola a shade house in summer and a sun trap in…
Down in the Garden: is permaculture for you?
There are so many ways to garden and each season seems to bring us a new term, a new way of caring for and harvesting the plants we grow at…
Down in the Garden: Home with Hibiscus
As summer returns to the Coast, so do the hibiscus! We have a bit of a love affair with this tropical looking blossom as any balmy evening walk through our…
Down in the Garden: Your own homegrown Christmas
2020 has not been kind or easy for any of us but one thing we can all rely on is that gardening is never cancelled! Summer is a bountiful time…
Down in the Garden: It’s tomato time!
We are blessed on the Central Coast with an almost perfect climate to grow the star of summer salads bowls – the tomato. And the best time to plant is…