Suburban Farmer

This guide will tell you what you can plant in Perth, how long before you can expect produce to be ready, and give you a plan for the types of crops that you will plant next.

Every few weeks I get a slightly panicked email or question relating to the complicated world of CROP ROTATION. After the long, anxious, confused, and inevitably deflated request for help, my answer is somewhat simple, a little disappointing at first glance, and bewildering as my response is usually something like this…WHY BOTHER YOURSELF, NATURE DOESN’T…

I deh pon forward (walk outside) out to the back into the garden and have a look around. Nothing unusual, the plants are healthy and growing greatly, the compost is composting, the bees are buzzing and the chooks are ZOMBIES!?! What happened to my beautiful chookies? Did a dog dig an old chook up and…

So we have all heard about manure, and its importance to adding humus and organic content to our soils and improving fertility. Most of these manures come from animals and are usually brown and stinky. Chook poo, Pig poo, Sheep poo, Horse poo, Cow poo, Baby poo…Ha gotcha!! No we don’t use baby poo. There…

Have you ever thought about how many punnets you have brought lately and thrown away the containers, just to go and buy more seedlings when needed?

After all that WINTER weather and (I hope) lots of eating WINTER veggies I think it’s safe to say we all long for our SPRING and SUMMER veggie garden. The life and the colours it brings, balancing out the WINTER. However, did you know that SUMMER SOILS are made during the WINTER, and WINTER SOILS…

Blessed Mumma Earth always provides! In this blog we are looking at creating Compost from your own gardens. Giving you a FREE source of Soil Health Conditioning/Strengthening, and, quite possibly upsetting some Green Wheelie bin enthusiasts, probably confusing some formal gardeners, and most definitely annoying big chain suppliers and such. Why buy when you already…

Summer in Perth is a great time for beach, barbecues, backyard cricket and enjoying the sunshine.