Growing Vegetables in a Small Garden

Vertical Vegetable Gardening by Chris McLaughlin is not so much a book about which vegetables are climbers or twiners as it is a guide to growing your fruit and veggies in small spaces. It does indeed, explain the habit of twiners, toplers and tendrils, and even...

Bush fires, compost and gardening webinars

Welcome to 2013!! In typical Aussie style, we’ve started the year with blazing heat and bush fires so gardening may not have been a top priority for some in The Veggie Club. Not only are these conditions hard personally, but they’re also hard on our gardens. The sort...

How to grow passionfruit

Grafted passionfruit are said to fruit earlier and better, but for my money I’d rather grow them from seed. My first passionfruit plant was a grafted ‘Nelly Kelly’ that I bought from my local nursery. Much to my dismay, this plant never yielded me one passionfruit!...

Keeping chickens without destroying the garden

I love keeping chickens in the backyard and collecting fresh organic eggs every day. They’re great at pecking off pests from the plants and interrupting the pest reproductive cycle by gobbling up any insect eggs or larvae. The drawback, however, is that they scratch...

When should I water my plants?

There seems to be much debate over when is the best time to water the garden. Some say morning is best …. others say evening is their choice. So what’s right? Does it really matter anyway? Well I will set the record straight now … I never water at night,...