Growing potatoes Growing potatoes in the Redlands can be tricky, as potatoes are a cool climate crop. This means they grow well in Australia’s the southern states, but don’t like our coastal humidity! In southern states potatoes are a summer crop because...
Many vegetables are being labelled as Superfoods. I just think its eating as nature intended us to eat! In Brisbane we grow a fabulous range of vegetables throughout winter. These include lettuce, bok choy, eggplants, tomatoes, kale and most leafy green vegetables. I...
Why should you let vegetables flower and set seed? Visitors to my garden are often surprised to see my lettuce, mizuna and other veggies flowering and going to seed at the end of the season. Why don’t you just rip them out they ask? Well, one of the reasons is...
Why is soil preparation important? I have recently pondered the question of whether people realise how important soil preparation is? What raised this question is that I have been watching a new garden being established in the neighbourhood. And it made me realise...
Planting the Veggie Garden I was down at my local Big Green shed this morning and arrived at just the right time for replanting the veggie garden and growing your own veggies. The garden team were going through all the plants deciding which ones were to be reduced and...
