Back in May, I promised you an update on how my trials with bokashi were working out. Bokashi is a Japanese composting method that sort of pickles your food scraps (see my earlier post: Bokashi – A Japanese Health Spa for Plants) Well, the results are in and … THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!!!

Hello gardening friends! I have returned from a short hiatus while I’ve been traveling overseas and have been eager to tell you all about the wonderful gardens that I visited while I was there. However I have been thwarted when on my return I promptly lost my camera and all of the photos from my [...]

We who choose to live in cold climates sometimes despair and wonder if its worth the trouble – keeping our houses, loved ones and selves warm as the temperatures drop, protecting the plants that we *needed* to buy but don’t really appreciate the chill, trying to get out of bed on a morning where your [...]

A nice chap from the marketing team for Fiskars looked me up not long ago and asked me to write a review of their new range of garden blades. Having always thought Fiskars were quite good but not really having much on which to base that assumption, I accepted with two provisos. The first was [...]

Its Autumn in Canberra, just starting to cool down but still warm during the days. Its a very pleasant time of year and we have a second flush of roses in bloom at the moment. My ‘Mr Lincoln’ roses were passed down from cuttings from my grandmother and this year I am decided on the [...]