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garden-larder: November 2014
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This blog is all about my little seed farm in Victoria, Australia. Follow my progress as I grow and sell rare, unusual and heritage vegetable seed for local seed companies. I have nearly ten acres now of urban farm, using empty house blocks as well as a small rural block. Check in often to see what I am up to. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Finger limes and high heat. In an hour I will start my watering so I can be back in around 9pm when the sun sets, I really don't like to work after dark. I should have pu...
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Growing Food, Saving Seeds: More Pink Flowered Peas
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Growing Food, Saving Seeds. Thursday, 19 June 2014. More Pink Flowered Peas. I crossed Salmon Flowered Crown to Elisabeth x Sugar Magnolia (F1) which at only the first generation meant it would have genes bouncing around and the subsequent F1 seed I saved, would be unlikely to be uniform in type as most F1's to stable parents are. I have 3 F1 plants growing and they have just started flowering. 2 pink and 1 purple flowered! Plant 1, pink flower. Plant 1, pink flower. Plant 2, pink flower. This year Im no...
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garden-larder: January 2015
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This blog is all about my little seed farm in Victoria, Australia. Follow my progress as I grow and sell rare, unusual and heritage vegetable seed for local seed companies. I have nearly ten acres now of urban farm, using empty house blocks as well as a small rural block. Check in often to see what I am up to. Friday, January 30, 2015. Amazing pink fir apple potatoes. I was mentioning the fact that my Tromboncino pumpkins (also known as 'Zucca di albenga' among a dozen other names) always produce flowers...
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Growing Food, Saving Seeds: Hello Blog
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Growing Food, Saving Seeds. Thursday, 25 September 2014. I've been posting on Growing Food Saving Seeds forum GFSS. For a little while and have been wanting to start a blog to run alongside, but there seems to be a blog gremlin on the site so thought I'd start one here instead! What is it about? A love of gardening and in this case edibles. A pleasure in growing healthy food that looks good and tastes great! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Gardening forums I like. This year ...
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Growing Food, Saving Seeds: Chance crossed Anasazi Beans
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Growing Food, Saving Seeds. Thursday, 29 May 2014. Chance crossed Anasazi Beans. Anasazi beans, as they should look. Anasazi are a climbing variety and produces lots of lovely burgundy and creamy white beans, they are quite a small seeded bean. I use them sometimes as a fresh shelly bean, but mostly use them from dried. They have a super flavour with a lovely soft creamy texture and cook quite quickly. Black x beans and whiter Anasazi beans grown 2011. Top Anasazi beans from 2011 and bottom 2012 crop.
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Growing Food, Saving Seeds: February 2014
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Growing Food, Saving Seeds. Friday, 14 February 2014. Heritage Library Seeds (HSL). I’m a member of HSL which is run by Garden Organics (as long as I remember to renew my annual membership! As a member I can choose up to 6 packs of Heritage seeds from their catalogue Join the Heritage Seed Library. I received my selection of seeds from the HSL a couple of days ago. I’m pleased to have all my first choices;. Bangladeshi Lablab beans, these are white flowered, I've only grown the pink ones before. Enjoya P...
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garden-larder: April 2015
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This blog is all about my little seed farm in Victoria, Australia. Follow my progress as I grow and sell rare, unusual and heritage vegetable seed for local seed companies. I have nearly ten acres now of urban farm, using empty house blocks as well as a small rural block. Check in often to see what I am up to. Thursday, April 30, 2015. New update on the new block. I really hope it works out, I will find out if the landlord is ok with it tonight or tomorrow. The new restaurant in town wanted a few bunches...
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garden-larder: Getting the irrigation system up
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This blog is all about my little seed farm in Victoria, Australia. Follow my progress as I grow and sell rare, unusual and heritage vegetable seed for local seed companies. I have nearly ten acres now of urban farm, using empty house blocks as well as a small rural block. Check in often to see what I am up to. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Getting the irrigation system up. It has no moving parts or electronics so is easy to maintain. I have just completed all the left hand side and when I can afford the next t...
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garden-larder: They're all telling me it's spring
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This blog is all about my little seed farm in Victoria, Australia. Follow my progress as I grow and sell rare, unusual and heritage vegetable seed for local seed companies. I have nearly ten acres now of urban farm, using empty house blocks as well as a small rural block. Check in often to see what I am up to. Thursday, August 13, 2015. They're all telling me it's spring. I am going to two local spring festivals next month so I ordered a banner to put on my stall. I will be selling seeds. This bed is goi...
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