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A white Christmas in Melbourne + Summer (ahem) Garden Update

Well Christmas Day sure was a surprise in Melbourne this year. Instead of the expected scorcher, we ended up with what one could almost call a White Christmas! Hail stones the size of ping pongs rained down at us over in Coburg, and as you can see, my veggie patch copped a fair [...]

A garden update…and pickled green tomatoes

Thought it was time for a bit of a garden update, considering all is not dull in my Winter garden.

We’ve already been tucking into the cavalo nero, red kale, bok choy, spinach and tatsoi – harvesting leaves as required; no more than two minutes from plant to pot. I’ve been keeping things [...]

..and the vegie garden begins

Having lived smack bang in the middle of the CBD for the last few years, one of the things I yearned for was my own patch of ground in which to grow vegies.  When I was younger my Italian grandparents of course always had a great patch, full of tomatoes, broadbeans, zucchini, silverbeet [...]