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Microplot garden design – 1

Posted on February 27, 2015 by tikiwanderer

One of the things I’m experimenting with is dense microplots for urban gardens. Take three, maybe four species of food or useful plant, and grow them together in a complementary fashion so that they each help each other thrive and … Continue reading →

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Bunuru, or secondsummer

Posted on June 3, 2014 by tikiwanderer

As I’ve written about before, I follow the local six-season calendar in my work here with soil, plants, weather and climate. This blog went into a bit of a hiatus halfway through the season of firstsummer, what with the holiday … Continue reading →

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Standing in the rain with a hose, watering the plants

Posted on January 28, 2014 by tikiwanderer

I don’t know if my neighbours look out their windows late at night. But if they had the other night, they’d have seen me standing in the rain with a garden hose, watering the front garden. They, you and the … Continue reading →

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Heat tolerant vegies

Posted on November 17, 2013 by tikiwanderer

One of the surviving-summer strategies I’m using heavily in my zone 3 gardens is choosing heat-tolerant plants. Heat tolerance is an important thing to select for, but it’s not as obvious as it first seems. For instance, I don’t mean … Continue reading →

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Kambarang, Birak and the encroachment of summer

Posted on November 11, 2013 by tikiwanderer

Round about the first of November we had a day with a dry easterly wind blowing. The easterlies bring over the warmth of the inland, but it’s still early in the bright half of the year and the Earth has … Continue reading →

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Friday photo – Blueberry buds and flowers

Posted on August 23, 2013 by tikiwanderer

Our blueberry bush is budding and flowering prolifically, or at least as much as a one-foot-high bush can. Blueberries aren’t the best crop for Perth as most need more chilling than we get here on the sandplain. This is a … Continue reading →

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