The firs time I tried to grow chamomile I carefully planted neat rows of seeds into nice fertile soil and watered them diligently, and, nothing happened. One stunted little plant grew with a couple of fuzzy leaves but it never flowered. The following year I chucked what was left of the chamomile seeds into the […]
Summer Garden
The veggie garden is green and full and lovely at the moment. Some cooler summer days and loads of spring rain has made everything leafy and wild I can’t believe I planted so much this year. It didn’t feel like a lot back in spring. I just kept heaping dirt into rows and popping more […]
Eat What Your Grow – Spring Salad with Balsamic Dressing
It was a warm weekend here on the Pickle Farm, and sunny weather in mid-October means it’s time to start planting seeds in the garden. So the kids and I spent most of the weekend shoveling horse poop, poking little seeds into the dirt and playing with the hose. It was glorious! The garden is […]
Kid Friendly Food Gardening – Autumn Harvest.
We’ve eaten our way through all the delicious spring and summer veggies we planted and now that the weather has turned chilly it’s just about time to give up on the stragglers and rip out all the plants so we can prep the beds for winter. But we still have some veggies that are holding […]
Kid Friendly Gardening – Summer Garden.
Our food garden is at it’s peak production right now. With lots of long sunny days and lots of lovely bore water things are growing, fruiting and ripening and we are are to fill our meals with home grown food as well as share with friends and family. It’s the best time of the year […]
Kid Friendly Food Gardening – Grow Your Own Mushrooms
One of the goals for our kid friendly good garden is to have a go at growing the fruit and veggies that we like to eat. Sometimes that is easy, we usually grow more zucchinis and strawberries than we could ever eat, but sometimes it is harder, we struggle to grow even one capsicum or […]
Kid Friendly Food Gardening – What’s Growing In Your Garden?
We are staring down the end of spring here, and the garden is bursting into life! All our hard work of planting seeds and digging and mulching is beginning to pay off with flowers and seedlings sprouting and the promise of food to grow! Here’s a quick garden tour… As you can see by the […]
How to Grow Broad Beans Plus an Easy Broad Bean Pasta Salad Recipe
Broad beans (also know as Fava Beans) are not the sexiest vegetable in the garden, and if you don’t take the time to prepare them they can be pretty tough and blah to eat. But we like them, even more so because of the process of raising them from seed and they are really good […]
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