Right now we’re in the three-week spell that’s peak autumn. Hobart, like every other city throughout temperate Australia, has many deciduous trees planted alongside the evergreen natives. This means you get the best of both worlds: green and lively all winter, fragrant in spring and brilliantly-coloured in autumn. Continue reading »
It’s brag-posting time, because our veggie patch’s first summer with newly built beds and square-foot garden plans was a smashing success. It’s beginning to get out of hand! Jamie couldn’t bring himself to pick off the weaker seedlings when we initially planted them, bless him, so we’ve spent this summer eating every flavour of zucchini and offering up football-sized specimens to our dumbfounded friends. Continue reading »
Square foot gardening is a handy, well-known method for figuring out how to cram in a bunch of edibles into a small space, and I admit it, I also like how visually tidy the results are. I really wanted to try it out with our raised veggie beds this year, once we rebuilt them from scratch. Continue reading »