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An Ambitious Project : The Self Sowing Garden
The Victorian Language of Flowers
What’s a ‘Blue Moon’
Holy COW!! Mia’s a Mummy!!
How To Sharpen Your Shears
Watch This Space
Happy New Year..2010 WOW!!
My Kitchen Garden is Breaking ALL the Rules!!
The Healing Power of Touch
The Serious Health Dangers of Potting & Seed Raising Mix
How to Look After Seedlings
What is Happening With Our Weather??
How The Law Of Attraction Works For Me
Just Shear Madness!!
Unwanted Spray Drift: Don’t Suffer In Silence
What is Bloat in Cattle ?
Have You Heard The One About A Sex Change Chicken!
Growing Sunflowers
Lessons Learnt Part Two
Lessons I Learnt From Last Spring/Summer 2009
What Do Minerals and Trace Elements Do? Part 2
What Do Minerals and Trace Elements Do? Part 1
Going Organic Your Questions Part Two
Going Organic Your Questions Part One
How To Remove Invasive Weeds
Understanding Soil pH
How to Grow Maori Potatoes
Planting By The Moon – Part One
Magical Sunflowers (not just a pretty face)
Why Grow Heirlooms
How To Make Preserved Lemons
Natural Pest Control I Can Prove It WORKS
Can You Farm on 2 Acres
What to do with a Glut of Zucchini
Making Hay While The Sun Shines
Give A Little Tenderness
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009
All About Us
What To Do About Unwanted Spray Drift
Spoilt Rotten!!
Heirloom Carrots: No Ordinary Carrot
Conversion Chart for The Seasons
An Unfair Dismissal!
Mia has gone to find a boyfriend!!
Stormy HAS Arrived!!
A Tribute To An Inspiration
Is My Dream, Finally, Coming True ??
Tips for Establishing Herbal Leys in Existing Pasture
The Effect of Chemical Fertilisers
How Things Work Under the Soil
What Makes Organic Gardening Different?
A Tribute To The Pioneer’s Of Organic Gardening
Things can only get better
Poor Emma..AGAIN!!
The House That Suzi Built For Jack!!
Poisonous Plant Guide
At The End Of Another Day
What is a Herbal Ley??
Woody Tongue
Rain Drops Falling On My Head!!!
Oh!! It’s A Hard Life!!
Want The Good News?
What to do with the drunken sailor??
Update on the Patient
The Daily Feeding Frenzy
Rye Grass Staggers
When Experience Counts
New Year and Lizzy got a Job
Whats in a Name??
WOW!! We have babies YAY!!
Another Year Has Flown By
Spring has Sprung But What the Heck??
Mud Wrestling, Rain and New Arrivals
Having a Smashing Time!!
The Wheels of Fate Turn
The Penny Finally Drops…
Preparing for Winter.
A Sad, Sad Day
Ode to Solomon & Sky
The Things that Make Our Day…
When & How does Your Garden Grow??
Nina’s Boyfriend Revealed…
Christmas 2006 is Here
A Case of Mistaken Identity
One Year Older.
A Nurse’s Work is Never Done.
Home Sweet Home
Spring has Sprung
Flying The Bedroom.
The BEST News.
Choosing Your Chickens..
Winter Woes.
The Thing About Dreams
Up Date on Doris
Catch Them if You Can…
What we didn’t know about chickens…
New Arrivals…
So where to from here????
The Beginning…

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    The Hard Work 1
  • What To Sow Late Summer to Early Autumn

    Outside Vegetables
    Winter Beans
    Beetroot (pre-soak seed)
    Winter Cabbage
    **Carrot
    **Lettuce
    Salad Greens(Arugula, Miners lettuce etc)
    **Parsnip
    Radicchio
    Radish
    Silver beet (pre-soak seed)
    Swede
    Turnip
    Brussels sprouts
    **Leeks
    **Spring onions
    Bulb Fennel
    **Celery
    Broccoli
    Kohlrabi
    Winter Cauliflower
    Winter Squash

    Sow to Grow in Pots (Glasshouse Needed)
    Asparagus
    Artichokes
    Capsicum
    Chilli Peppers
    Dill Pepper
    Cucumber
    Melon (Cool Weather Variety)

    Herbs
    Basil Dark Opal
    Basil Thai
    Chervil Curled (French Parsley)
    Chives Garlic
    Dill
    Lemon Grass
    Oregano
    Parsley Gigante Italian
    Parsley Triple Curled
    Peppermint
    Russian Tarragon
    Sage
    Sorrel
    Sweet Marjoram
    ** Seeds to sow directly into the soil as they don't like being transplanted**

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