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We encourage simplicity and try to demistify complexity. Get your hands dirty and discover the joys of gardening.

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No experience required, just enthusiasm and a desire to learn. Welcome to your best garden ever!

We enjoy talking, writing and advising about home gardening to anybody who expresses an interest.

We get a kick out of trying new growing techniques and mastering new equipment. Our mission is to share our appreciation of back-to-nature gardening experiences as widely as possible.

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Gardening Practice

If you are gardening in a community garden, you may have no choice at all about where to garden – you get a plot, and that’s where your garden is.

Growing with the moon

The Moon has a roughly elliptical orbit so the gravitational pull varies throughout its 28 day cycle.

Gardening Organically

Think about the vegetables and herbs you enjoy eating and the flowers you enjoy looking at.

Growing Eggplant

Eggplant require heat throughout their lives and are almost always started in a greenhouse and transplanted outside.

Growing Coffee

After you have experienced your first and second fruiting of your Coffee plants you will wonder why you had so much trouble starting out.

Growing Peanuts

Good food like the humble peanut is often overlooked when planing the vegetable garden but it is without a doubt, the most ‘giving’ of plants that you will ever include in your garden.

Growing Chili & Pepper

They do not need soaking before planting and if you have missed their optimal time for germination they will sit until next year.

Growing Black Pepper

The seeds are easy to strike with germination being very high with our fresh seed.

Growing with Compost

In general,this process involves mixing together a variety of food wastes, yard wastes, and/or other compounds in proportions that are favorable for the growth and reproduction of bacteria.
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Common Flower Names

July 29, 2021

We have listed the cut flowers and foliages available in Australia, alphabetically, by their common flower names below. Their botanical (Latin or scientific) name is

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Gardening Questions (And Answers)

If you need help with problematic plants, thorny gardening issues or just want to know about composting or hydrophonics we’ll do our best to give you practical, no-nonsense advice.

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