If you grow your own apples, or live somewhere like Orange where apples are aplenty, occasionally you might end up with a massive surplus of them taking up valuable space in your fridge, or worse, going stale on the bench. Apples are a versatile fruit that can be added to all sorts of cakes and […]
I don’t know many people who don’t like snow peas. These sweet crunchy pods are incredibly easy to grow and require very little from you. Nice soil, something to hang on to and as many slugs and snails removed as possible are really all that you need to grow snow peas. These are an annual […]
Over the years I’ve trialled a number of different planting methods for growing potatoes. From trenching through to no-dig methods, I think I’ve tried them all. Now though, I’ve stumbled across another method and I think this might be a winner. Potato towers are designed for those that don’t have that much space to grow […]
Popular throughout Europe, Elderflower is a relative newcomer to Australia and it’s rather strange that it hasn’t always been a part of our culinary culture. It is after all amazingly refreshing and mixes well with either vodka or gin. Elderflower cordial, wine and champagne is common in the UK but it seems to not have […]
Reading the tags on your punnet of tomatoes and you’d be left believing that there’s only one way how to stake or truss tomatoes. The truth is there are many. For years I was like everyone else and I drove a stake into the ground before planting my tomato right up against it. As the […]
People seem to think that I’m a peaceful, happy kind of bloke. Most folk will say that I’m relaxed and chilled. Those people are wrong though. Underneath this chipper exterior lurks a beast whose sole purpose in life is to starve, destroy and humiliate. Thankfully though I’m fairly discriminate in whose bones I crush. You, dear reader, are […]
We love our wood fire. That big glowing Nectre Mega heater, combined with an air distribution system, keeps our large four bedroom home nice and warm. The problem with it though, is all that ash. Once a week I grab an old spade and shovel ash and coals into a steel bucket and leave it […]
One of the many advantages of living in a cool climate is that it’s perfect for growing garlic. Since establishing my patch six years ago I have rarely had to buy garlic. It’s only late in the season, around August and September, that we need to turn to the greengrocer for some imported product. We never buy […]
I’ve just did a quick scan on YouTube on how to cook silverbeet and what a travesty most of them are. The video creators all talk about how nutritious and wonderful silverbeet is, and then go on to boil it and squeeze the living juices out of it. Here now is the correct way to […]
