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August 10
Is this the one - Australian Story - "Right as Rain" Monday at 8pm? http://www.abc.net.au/austory/
July 2
I second it. I would also recommend Annette's "Organic Vegetable Gardening".
June 2
Oh, never thought of freezing passionfruit! Cool tip. Put my post up if anyone is interested.... http://gustoso.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/chokos-to-cumquats/ Seems most people don't aim for 100% self-sufficiency. Thanks for the replies. Food for th…
April 23
We are no way self sufficient, we don't have fruit trees but friends give us apples etc. We eat from the garden each day. Our winter garden is a green one. We have lots of asian greens, garlic and coriander and fenugreek. We are having stir fried gr…
April 22
About 70% of our vegies are home grown and with 2 garden beds of 1.5m x 3m we are also giving away a lot as well (part of the joy of it all) We also have 4 standard recycling tubs that we grow too.....root vegies etc. We have planted about 4 plants…
April 22
I have thought about this a lot in the past. I grow most of our vegetables... almost all. There are only two of us at home now. I can easily grow enough for myself, and with thought and work, enough for two of us. When my youngest son was still at…
April 19
littlem added a discussion to the group Gardening in Australia
I'm currently drafting a post for my blog about how much it takes to become self-sufficient. To follow on from Linda's question. What percentage of what you eat (fruit and veg) are home grown? And how many plants (including fruit trees) do you grow…
April 19
April 15
Linda, It's funny what you said about what you can grow in Tassie. We assumed it was the "perfect" climate for growing vegetables and fruit! Summer seems to be too hot and dry in Brisbane. I wonder where in Oz is the best for growing home produce.
March 2
Our blog is Gustoso http://gustoso.wordpress.com - our current challenge is to see if two amateur gardeners can become self-sufficient by converting their lawn to lunch in a year.
March 2
wow, what a great idea. we'll have to do that for ours at the end of the year.
March 2
littlem is now a member of Kitchen Gardeners
March 2

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Where do you live and garden?
Brisbane, Australia
How long have you been growing food?
< 1 year

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At 7:51am on May 31, 2009, Anh Collins said…
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At 11:07pm on March 2, 2009, Maggie said…
Hi welcome to KGI, please join the Gardening in Australia Group.
Your blog is great, lots of good recipes. Have fun!
 
 

KG Day - Help us choose a date!

Kitchen Garden Day has traditionally been celebrated at the end of August which is a great time for gardens in temperate, northern climates but not a great time for many other gardeners around the world (e.g. August is winter in the southern hemisphere, monsoon season in India, too hot for many gardeners in southern states, etc.).

We're exploring the possibility of changing the date to the spring and would like your input. Please answer our poll here.

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Hi Maggie, thanks once again for sharing some wonderful photos. I am interested in those pepinos and the bari cucumbers - might try growing them - I presume they would do better for us once the wet season is over? We ordered some gemsquash through a…
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Joel - a beautiful flower - will post some when they appear probalby about april
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Hi Glen, That variegated leaf I know as costus - not sure what the latin name is. Check out my other blog and you will see the beautiful flowers this costus has. www.africanaussie.blogspot.com
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Food - the way it used to taste.
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Does anyone have suggestions of plants to encourage insects? My back garden looks a little dead [it is full of gravel so I plant in pots]. I am looking forward to my daffodils coming back in a couple of months ^^
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Everett McDonald and Daniel Borghi are now friends
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chibi-anna-chan added a blog post
Once again, I return to this site after a long absense... I am trying to do a little bit of job hunting, but I don't think i'm getting far. I need to make some chutney as I promised to give a jar to a friend, too bad I ran out of my home-grown veg…
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chibi-anna-chan Thinking of what to plant in the spring...
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An old weeding hoe I found in a hardware store years ago. I tried to add these photos to Glenn Fletchers blog about tools but couldn't get them to load. Imust be over tired.
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This is a broadfork I use too loosen soil rather than rototilling.
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This is a great idea,we might try this.Stay warm, i think it is pretty cold now where you live. Happy New Year.
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Created by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun 8.

Forum Policy

Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.

I would be happy to hear any comments you may have.  This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.

I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.

Administration

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Created by Ian May 23, 2009 at 1:55am. Last updated by Ian May 25.

Climate maps

Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..

 Climate map of the USA

Climate map of Australia

Climate map of Europe

 

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Created by Ian Sep 12, 2008 at 6:20pm. Last updated by Ian Apr 14.

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes

Hi Everyone,  I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.

If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.

They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!

BEVA'S RECIPES

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Created by Ian Jun 2, 2008 at 9:54am. Last updated by Ian Apr 13.

US STATES ABBREVIATIONS

 

US STATE ABBREVIATIONS

AK - Alaska               AL - Alabama              AR - Arkansas
AZ - Arizona              CA - California           CO - Colorado
CT - Connecticut          DC - Dist of Columbia *   DE - Delaware
FL - Florida              GA - Georgia              GU

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Created by Ian Jan 27, 2009 at 4:27pm. Last updated by Ian Jan 27.

HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST

Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.

 

 

KATE’S ADVICE

I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but

1 you have to fill it up all at once

2. it seemed mostly

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Created by Ian May 30, 2008 at 5:29am. Last updated by Roger Jan 15.

Notes Home

Welcome to Notes.

To view notes that are in the system hit the "all notes" button above.

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 12:10pm. Last updated by Ian May. 30, 2008.

A Note about Notes

I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.

If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.

Ian

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 6:19pm. Last updated by Ian May. 28, 2008.

 

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