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pruning heritage trees
This weekend join me and Sue, Brian and Wayne at the community gardens, and learn first hand from experienced orchardists how to prune, and help lick our heritage fruit trees into shape. Our heritage...
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Veggie gardening at 1000m plus, now you’re in the clouds!
Here we are in the middle of winter and my mind turns to plans for the coming years veggies. If, like me you’re gardening above the 1,000 m elevation Leura and beyond, you can expect a 80 to 90 day...
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The Chilling Facts of Life
Oops! I’ve just put in an order to buy a couple more of these fruit trees, there’s barely space left but I just can’t help myself. If you’re considering buying any bare root fruit or nut tree this...
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Sue’s August Planting Guide
As the clock ticks over tonight July ends, and we’re looking forward to slightly longer and on average a slither slightly higher thermometer reading of ‘warmer’ days in our Cool Mountainous climate of...
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12 Principles of Chickweed
We define weeds as a plant growing out of the place where you want it or growing at the wrong time. Sometimes these are plants that grow easily in a place, from ‘garden escapees’ with parts breaking...
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Sue’s September Planting Guide
Carrots (Photo credit: briannaorg) The sun is shining, the days are lengthening, my hormones are stirring and its that time of year that K-Mart has its Spring Plant Sale on… so should I succumb to...
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Spring is in the Air
As I look out my back window at the quince and the peach beginning to bloom I am reminded of the wonders of fruit trees. The weather is always a little unpredictable around this time of year, when...
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