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2012-12-27

One of the side effects of having free range chickens is that from time to time they will decide to engage in a little off piste laying. It’s not a major...

2012-12-22

As the summer sun warms up, don’t forget to protect your fruit. If you try to make the most of space within your garden you may be tempted to grow espalier...

2012-12-15

Judging from the number of slugs on my cherry tree and from the number of visitors to my blog looking for answers this has been a bad year for cherry...

2012-03-06

Brown rot One of my email subscribers just wrote to me and asked about brown rot in nectarines.  As I had just posted about my great nectarine crop,...

2012-03-03

My abundance of nectarines - yay! This year has been a great year for nectarines. I think it has been a combination of factors coming together to produce...

2011-12-19

Pear and Cherry Slugs Pear and cherry slug is a common problem in my area, mainly due to the fact that this was a fruit growing area of Melbourne which...

2011-12-18

The Onion Harvest 2011 I have just completed my onion harvest for 2011 and by my standards it has been quite a success. Usually by the time I get to...

2011-11-19

You would be forgiven for thinking that this blog is just about raspberries and chickens given the disproportionate number of posts on these topics. However...

2011-10-08

Premulch - Put down a good dose of manure (preferably more rotted than this!) and some fertiliser. Winter is the time to be putting down mulch in your...

2011-09-30

Spring is well and truly here and summer is coming up fast.  If you have subscribed to my newsletter you will have received a copy of my crop rotation...