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Tag Archives: horseradish
Moving Ginger
As part of the move to the farm, Frank and I dug up and took cuttings from some of our Chatswood plants. I dug up all the ginger which was dying back and ready for harvest anyway. I kept a … Continue reading
Ginger Progress
This is the new ginger & horseradish bed. I tried ginger here before and it didn’t do well. I’m not sure what the problem was but I’ve improved the soil so I’m hoping it thrives now. My horseradish had done well … Continue reading
Evolution of a Garden Bed
I created a small, sloping veggie bed along our western fence line back in 2006 when I thought I’d try growing horseradish and ginger from green-grocer products. Before the plants could do anything, Frank and I moved to Darwin and the … Continue reading
Posted in Garden
Tagged coffee grounds, fertiliser, ginger, horseradish, installation, lessons learned, potato
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Divine Weather
Today the weather couldn’t be better. Cool (okay, maybe upper 20s as a high) and sunny with a nice breeze. The ground is damp but not wet. The garden is greening as I watch. Frank is taking the opportunity to … Continue reading
Everything’s Growing
The garden’s looking great. The sunflowers are all opening and make a nice cheery splash against the fence. My mounding experiment is not really panning out. I remounded around some rocket and radishes this week since they seem to be … Continue reading
Borers
Today there was this weird sliding, scraping sound, like someone dragging bags of newspaper in front of the house. I looked out the front door and saw nothing so I assumed someone had gone past on the road. An hour … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Nature
Tagged celery, citrus, ginger, horseradish, Pests, spring onion, tomato
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Dill, Coriander and Tarragon – Lunar sprouting
On the left are some dill sprouts – I’m not positive which of this lot are the dill sprouts and which are weeds. On the right are more sprouts. I’m hopeful these are tarragon. They’re in the right place anyway. … Continue reading
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