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Autumn in my garden 

Bye bye to the hot weather.

Summer is gone and the weather man forecast temps in the low to mid twenties for the next 7 days. This makes me very happy as I don't like the hot weather, plus the hot weather doesn't like me either.

Only good thing about summer was the varieties of food I could grow. But now with the cooler weather comes a new variety of foods to grow.

Shorter days and cooler nights, becoming damp as the weeks grow closer to the winter months.

I have already started my slug/snail patrols and collected a nice little load of slimy what ever they come under for the chooks breakfast.

Also with the drought facing my area, less watering will be done due to lower temps and hopefully autumn rains.

Planting by moon phases. 

I'm over the moon with the prospects of a great harvest.

Been wanting for ages to plant my vegie garden by moon phases. This has aways interested me, whether the moon really has any impact on how seeds or seedlings grow and produce harvests.

So I am going to have a good try at it. So for the last month or so I have been researching this topic and decided it is for me.

The vegetable garden is now on the move with the moon phases. This last week I have in accordance with the cycles, planted out my root crops and green manure.

Listed for next week is a sowing of cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, silver beet, peas, beans, endive, lettuce,spinach and leeks.

Using the moon cycles in their correct planting phases I am hoping for a better germination, growth and food harvest.

Underneath this enclosure of wire are my root crops. Safe from chooks, ducks, pet rabbits and feral birds. It'll be removed once the root crop is big enough to handle the forces of animals.

My Day In The Garden 

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My Own Websites 

Animals & vegetables growing together

Lucky's Duck Farm Web

My main website has pages of information on how to care for poultry, rabbits & worm farms. Allowing them to help grow organic vegetables.

Lucky's Duck Farm Blogg

Here you can see what I am doing almost day to day. It can be busy with all my animals and upkeep of harvesting vegetables.

Garden to Plate

Recipes from lots of forum people as well as my own kitchen. Need to do something with all that food we grow.

Home Gardners Sites 

People With A Passion

Len's Garden Page

I use permaculture and organic gardening techniques. My gardens are built to be weed free and once established are water efficient. There are no back breaking techniques in developing a garden this way, apart from what is needed to plant major plants.

Straw Bale Garden

Well here we are in a new home with no gardens! A blank pallet to start with, and with lots of things to do to the home ie... Put a pool in, a patio, a carport and the list goes on & on hey... sounds like good fun for an oldies like us hey lol?

Gardening Links 

Links to my favourite sites.

ABC Gardening Australia

From the #1 gardening show in Australia.

Burkes Backyard

Lifestyle gardening in Australia.

Better Homes & Gardens

Information on gardening, cooking, home improvements in Australia.

Garden Express

This is another wonderful place to go and chat to other gardener.

Seed & Plant Ordering Sites 

More choices in growing varieties by seeds.

Green Harvet

Organic garden supplies.

The Diggers Club

This is my favourite place for ordering seeds through out the year.

Eden Seeds

OUR AIM is to distribute Old Traditional Open pollinated varieties of vegetable seed, preferably old Australian varieties and organically or bio-dynamically grown where possible.

New Gippsland Seeds and Bulbs

Who we are

New Gippsland Seeds and Bulbs was founded in 1923 and has been providing quality seeds for the 81 years since then. Located in the farmlands of Silvan Victoria, Australia, it's run by Pete and Sue de Vaus and family.

Heirloom Tomato Seed Exchange

If your looking for tomato seeds this is a great place to start.

Espalier Fruit Trees 

Growing a tree up made easy.

Espalier Trees

We commenced planted our fruit tree orchard in the early eighties. Diligently we spaced variety of trees a recommended 17 feet apart.

Creating your own espalier

Don Burke shows you how to espalier a tree including a drawing.

Espaliered Trees

Espaliering is a fun way to express yourself in the garden. It isn't a difficult process, but it does require patience and some prep work.

Espalier Trees

From midsummer through late fall, John Hooper harvests 600 pounds of apples a year from his garden. Yet he lives in a mild, often fog-shrouded coastal climate in northern California-

Espalier Training

CORVALLIS - Are you looking for a demanding but rewarding gardening challenge? Try the espalier technique of training fruit trees.

More Espalier Trees

Once you realize just how minimal the space requirements are, and how productive the results, you'll understand why espaliered fruit trees were so common along the inner walls of castle courtyards and walled cities.

Create a Living Fence

Espalier (pronounced is-PAL-yer or is-PAL-yay) is the art of training plants, often fruit trees, to grow in a single plane. Perfected by the French, this form of vertical gardening gives plants full sun and air while preserving valuable space.

Espaliered Fruit Trees.

A very good PDF file from the University of Florida.Including great drawings of different designs.

Worm Farms 

Getting started made easy

EPA of New South Wales

Worms can do wonders for the garden: they aerate the soil and their castings are an excellent fertiliser. To get a constant supply of this worm fertiliser as well as extra worms for the garden, start a worm farm.

Use Red Worms or Tiger Worms only (available from most plant nurseries). The common Australian garden worm is not suitable.

Wonder of Worms

In Australia, over half of the household material that end up at the tip is organic waste, and when it is buried can lead to groundwater contamination and the production of greenhouse gases. This practice is environmentally unsound and also wasteful because through natural processes this organic matter can safely and easily be converted into useful soil-building humus.

Worm Farm

The unseen worm, who has been quietly aerating, tilling, and fertilizing the soil for centuries, is truly our partner in the fight to save the environment.

We hope that this site will finally give the worm population the recognition it deserves, along with some much needed help from us. It's time to return the favor and help ourselves in the process!!

Reln Worm Farms

In the 1980s, Reln Pty Ltd began developing a viable business in recycled post-consumer plastic products. The company then used this technology to develop environmental waste minimisation products (compost bins and worm farms) that have over time been refined to reduce their already minimal environmental impact.

Worm Farm From Car Tyres

Anyone can start a worm bin. All you need are the right ingredients.

Books Books and more Books 

Books can open a whole new world up to the subject your interested in.

Gardening books are a great resourse and can help you in the area of gardening you are interested in.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp

Amazon Price: $8.97 (as of 07/26/2008)

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

by Michael Pollan

Amazon Price: $13.17 (as of 07/26/2008)

All New Square Foot Gardening

by Mel Bartholomew

Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 07/26/2008)

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)

by Steve Solomon

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 07/26/2008)

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long

by Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 07/26/2008)

Gardening on eBay 

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