Suburban Farmer

WINTER VEGETABLE SOUP and SUMMER SALAD can help inspire your WINTER and SUMMER Vegetable Garden PLANT OUT. Blessings and LOVE Farmer’s  Picking what to plant is one of the major issues when setting up your vegetable garden. Fix it with WINTER VEGETABLE SOUP and a SUMMER SALAD?? HOW?? One Sunday afternoon you find yourself at a…

How a HARD NOSED and yet FLEXIBLE Gardening approach will result in a STRONGER vegetable garden. Farming is a tough business. You only need to speak to one of our ORGANIC or INORGANIC food producers, or turn on the news during extreme weather to learn how tough it is on the land. STORMS, FLOODS, DROUGHT,…

How to reap the rewards from a small amount of effort for years to come. Although perennials are often slow growing, once established they can just about take care of themselves. Some species are so low maintenance that they can become super invasive over time (i.e. mint and mugwart!) AND TAKE ON A life of their…

WOW WHAT IS THIS??  I’ve never tasted anything like it. When your friends come to visit, they will leave inspired to try something new. And it’s all due to your VEGETABLE GARDEN, and the LOVE created for it and by it.. A Productive Landscape Vegetables, herbs, and fruits can be amazingly decorative! Rather than have…

The easiest way to fill or top up an aquaponics system is by using ordinary outside tap. Here is what you need to know about using scheme tap water in an aquaponics system. The chlorine present in tap water is potentially harmful to your fish and the bacteria colonies living in your growbed (Microbiology). There are…

Pests Are Parents Too- GARDENING TO HELP MAKE LIFE – NOT TAKE LIFE SUBURBAN FARMER DOES NOT use TOXIC chemicals. WE ENCOURAGE ALL LIFE. Beat the bugs with psychological tactics and reuse waste same time! Like Human parents, the parents of the baby bugs we call ‘pests’ are looking for the safest and best environment…

LETS GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLLLLLE! Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to a contest that promises to be a classic in every sense of the word. In the blue corner, weighing in at 3 kilograms, the lean, not so mean, Muscovy “Puddles” Duck. And in the red corner, weighing in at 2.5 kilograms, the undisputed king…

(Original concept 4WD’ing Responsibly 2013) Wadada! Wadada means LOVE. This is where the foundation of UNTIY/I’NITY comes from. And within the word community is the word UNITY. So often we come across this word commUNITY. But recently we seem to have forgotten the suffix in commUNITY. Times are hard at the moment, which is to…

If you keep putting off gardening jobs or work in your garden seems like a chore, then you might be experiencing or have lost the passion you had when you first started your veggie garden. A great way to keep motivated and passionate about your veggie garden is to plant some really interesting and unusual…