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!!!

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 [...]

I’ve heard people raving about bokashi for some time and after reading Intemperate Edibles post and seeing how cheap and easy it could be, I decided to give it a red-hot go.

Thanks to all of you who have left comments and been so supportive already – its amazing and I really appreciate it! I was inspired yesterday by the other bloggers out there who are such incredible photographers (which I, as you will come to learn, am not) and have posted wonderful pictures of the bird [...]