To be honest, I was most surprised to collect this trug-full of tomatoes because weird things happened in the city garden. The tomato patch looks as if some sort of creeping-fungal-knob-rot has enveloped the entire area.
The garden ruin looks biblical to a Catholic so I’m doing reruns of past sins to discover which one is [...]
This year has been my first fail with Dad’s beans. They are a snap bean from which he had been seed-saving since the 1950s and have quickly become a favourite with all who try them. The patch of garden in which they were sown had been carefully nurtured through winter with fish frames and guts, [...]
Posted in Garden on 04. Feb, 2009
I’m relatively new to vegie gardening and Mr Scott has built me a small garden just in case I lose interest and abandon it to the deeds of the bugs and weeds. Mr Scott knows me quite well.
Last year at harvest time I staggered about trying not to stomp on my vegetable plants which had [...]
Posted in Garden on 24. Nov, 2008
Our compost bin is nearly as far away from the house as is geographically possible so it isn’t always convenient or appealing to go skipping across the wet back lawn of an evening to empty the vegetable scraps.
I finished up with a Dr Seuss-like three-step process where I started with a scrap bowl on the [...]
Posted in Garden on 24. Nov, 2008
Last year my home vege garden came under attack from every parasitic insect known. An entire TV series could have been based on the whitefly colony alone. The battles were legendary and we lost every time – except, that is, for the lettuces. They were fine. Nothing touched them. So this year I’m doing my [...]
Posted in Garden on 23. Oct, 2008
It’s been a bit of an Edmonds-Edmunds week but this Edmunds takes MOCKING to a new level.
We have a back fence which is nothing more than a back fence and needs jazzing up. A fresh coat of paint, or even a mural, I thought, before remembering I don’t have an artistic bone in my body. [...]
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