This list is for me to add to over time as I collect or think of plants to add to the New Garden D - Deciduous Food Forest Plants Tamarillo Babaco ✓ Thornless Youngberry (Mainly as a forage crop for the kids) Thornless Blackberry (Same as above) Youngberry (plenty of thorns but a good producer) Fig … Continue reading My Ongoing List of Plants for the New Garden →

One of the concepts or aspirations I have in mind for the new garden project is to fully design it for creating an over abundance of produce. Not just food, but also materials and benefits.I have come to thinking that this is going to be a necessary part of the gardens output and so have … Continue reading Over Abundance →

I did a post on other backyard gardening blogs some years ago and recently did a new search to find that we are growing in number.As though it is not enough that folks are taking to claim the backyard as a piece of productive edible gardening space and a real place of interest, many are … Continue reading Australian Backyard Gardening Blogs & Websites →

 With the recent removal of the trees from the other block the tree loppers had a load they needed to dump elsewhere before they could make a start on the rest of the block. So I asked for them to deliver it to our house so that I could mulch some of the garden.It certainly … Continue reading The Mulch Pile →

Friends shared with us at our local Community Garden meet about a series of books they have been reading called the Ringing Cedars of Russia series.The books sounded intriguing and so I looked into them and consequently opened up a new world to contemplate. I won't go into the series here as there is a … Continue reading The Ringing Cedars of Russia – Dachniks and The Way Forward →