Vegetable Gardens

(Original concept 4WD’ing Responsibly 2013) Wadada! Wadada means LOVE in Amharic. This is where the foundation of unity 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…

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…

We would all like our backyards to be a source of food, medicines, staples etc – but how achievable is it that your backyard could become ”Your Supermarket”? With decreased block sizes and hectic lifestyles, cost of daily living rising quicker every day, pandemics, food/supply shortages/empty shelves, seed shortages, water shortages etc These things don’t…

Read this to uncover the one secret ingredient to make your vegetable garden a success! One thing to FOOL them all… In this day and age, we are led to believe that there is one magic ingredient that will result in guaranteed success of our veggie gardens. In every suburb there is a garden centre…

What if I could tell you that doing nothing in the garden can help you have a better, more fulfilling and conscious vegetable garden journey? How can doing nothing actually be doing something? Let me explain the importance of stillness within our gardens and thus our LIVES. We all lead pretty fast paced and hectic…

What Is Yield? Is it the produce that you can eat? Is it a marker of SUCCESS? Is it the only thing we should go by?

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…