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- Growing potatoes A PotatoTyre tower is more productive than other methods.
- Fertilizers Worm juice is another name for worm wee. Find someone who sells worm wee, or produce your own. Worm farms are easy to maintain, smell great, and give us castings - to increase the nutrients in our soil, and worm juice which can be sprinkled on once a fortnight. When collecting the worm wee in milk bottles, remember before applying it to your plants, that it needs to be diluted to have the colour of weak tea, otherwise it will burn your plants. Alternate this fortnightly regime with Blood & Bone, or Thrive. Human urine can be collect and diluted - 5:1 5 of water - and used as well.
- Butter-making with sour (off) cream Butter making: Too simple, too tasty, too economical.
- Carrot seed collection Too easy to collect; one plant would feed the neighbourhood!
- Carrot Seeds - how to collect them Too simple - leave one carrot to 'go to seed'
- Building An Elevated Waist High / No Dig Garden Bed The beauty of an elevated waist high garden bed is that it's a no dig garden, it's extremely friendly to the aged and disabled, and if you are away for a month, there are very few weeds in the garden when you get back.
- Assembling Your Plant-A-Genda This photographic guide steps you through how to assemble your new Plant-A-Genda product
- July 2010 Garden news Well, after some 4 or 5 days of really cold, rainy weather, today, here in Armidale, Northern N.S.W., we are having a brilliantly sunny day. Just the right temperature for some serious gardening.
- Keeping Track Of Your Plantings While the Plant-A-Genda product may keep your seeds safe in the correct month of planting, it makes life easier if you also create a calendar to record when you planted rows and also for optimising your planting in the seasons to come.
- Seeds for Good Health – How Eating More Vegetables Will Benefit You 'Seeds' for Good Health is not to be sneezed at! It's an extremely effective way of improving your health and quality of life, and can be achieved through this natural and healthy selection of foods.
- Are You A Beginner Veggie Gardener? Are you a beginner veggie gardener? Or have you been collecting seeds and need to get organized? If so, then the Plant-A-Genda is for you. Read more about this product in our write up.
- What To Do With Unrecyclable Rubbish Although many things can be recycled these days, there are still things which may remain in your general rubbish which can also be recycled effiiciently by other means aside from your general pickup or drop of recycling centre.
- Compost Heaps Help Your Seeds Grow! Composting can make a huge difference to your garden, and is also a good sustainble practice. A neat compost heap can be made up from just an old rubbish bin with the bottom removed and holes drilled in the sides.
- Healthy Lifestyles Can Start In Schools A healthy lifestyle and good life skills can easily be integrated into childrens school and home activities. This information provides some information and projects which teachers and parents can take to help kids they work with enjoy gardening and develop some really healthy habbits and life skills.
- Choosing Your Climate Climate has a big effect when growing vegetables and herbs, and correctly identifying the climate you are in will help greatly in identifying what to grow and when to grow it, ensuring a year round productive garden.
- Celeriac Celeriac resembles celery in the leaves, and the smell. It is very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber [2g], Vitamin B6, Magnesium, Potassium and Manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin C and Phosphorus.
HINTS & RECIPES For Gardening and Better Living
Welcome to the Hints and Recipes section of our website. This is where I can share the knowledge and recipes which I have accumulated over the many years of gardening, cooking and living sustainably. Hopefully they may help you get the 'good oil' and avoid the many pitfalls you may otherwise experience as a beginner.I also hope you will enjoy the benefits and variety in cooking from your own garden as much as you can. The information here is all absolutely free, so please do feel free to link to these articles from your own website or BLOG, and share something with others if it has helped you.
- Growing potatoes 4th of November 2011 A PotatoTyre tower is more productive than other methods.
- Fertilizers 28th of October 2011 Worm juice is another name for worm wee. Find someone who sells worm wee, or produce your own. Worm farms are easy to maintain, smell great, and give us castings - to increase the nutrients in our soil, and worm juice which can be sprinkled on once a fortnight. When collecting the worm wee in milk bottles, remember before applying it to your plants, that it needs to be diluted to have the colour of weak tea, otherwise it will burn your plants. Alternate this fortnightly regime with Blood & Bone, or Thrive. Human urine can be collect and diluted - 5:1 5 of water - and used as well.
- Butter-making with sour (off) cream 13th of May 2011 Butter making: Too simple, too tasty, too economical.
- Carrot seed collection 15th of November 2010 Too easy to collect; one plant would feed the neighbourhood!
- Carrot Seeds - how to collect them 13th of August 2010 Too simple - leave one carrot to 'go to seed'
- Building An Elevated Waist High / No Dig Garden Bed 3rd of August 2010 The beauty of an elevated waist high garden bed is that it's a no dig garden, it's extremely friendly to the aged and disabled, and if you are away for a month, there are very few weeds in the garden when you get back.
- Assembling Your Plant-A-Genda 23rd of July 2010 This photographic guide steps you through how to assemble your new Plant-A-Genda product
- July 2010 Garden news 19th of July 2010 Well, after some 4 or 5 days of really cold, rainy weather, today, here in Armidale, Northern N.S.W., we are having a brilliantly sunny day. Just the right temperature for some serious gardening.
- Keeping Track Of Your Plantings 26th of March 2009 While the Plant-A-Genda product may keep your seeds safe in the correct month of planting, it makes life easier if you also create a calendar to record when you planted rows and also for optimising your planting in the seasons to come.
- Seeds for Good Health – How Eating More Vegetables Will Benefit You 3rd of January 2009 'Seeds' for Good Health is not to be sneezed at! It's an extremely effective way of improving your health and quality of life, and can be achieved through this natural and healthy selection of foods.
Our Products
Our products have been designed with the amateur veggie gardener and kids in mind, however experienced gardeners will also appreciate being able to use our products to stay organised and make life easier in the garden.
Plant-A-Genda
A guided planting system in a box. Sturdy monthly dividers feature colour coded labels for each season, allowing you to store your seed packets behind each one, ready to plant at the right time.
Plant-A-Gen!us
A planting system designed just for kids, featuring easy to manage seasonal dividers, as well as a CD containing recipes, nutritional information, photos and tips to help encourage their learning.
My Third Hand
For those times when you’re on your own in the garden and need a hand to help shovel leaves, manure or rubbish into a bag, My Third Hand gives you this help by holding open your bags while you shovel.