"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" Mahatma Gandhi
Last year we bought a very large, very purple plastic pot from the tip shop. Its ultimate fate is to be a home for one of our citrus trees, but they are all still too small to warrant a move to a pot...
I'm neither a vegan, or a great fan of cupcakes, but when I saw the magic words 'cherry ripe cupcake' (and ignoring the word vegan that preceeded them) I was hooked. The hook came through the SBS Food...
Yes, TB has smoking habit, but at least this is one I can support.The smell of smoke rising from the back yard tells me that a luscious piece of ocean trout or better still a smoky section of pork belly...
Hooray, the big day finally arrived this week with the ritual picking of the first tomatoes. OK so there were only two of them so we had to bulk them out with some other stuff to make a lunch...
You won't be surprised to learn that Santa sent us 5 cookbooks for Christmas. Come to think of it everything that we got for Christmas this year was something to do with cooking or eating! TB thought...
I've had two fun tea towels cross my path recently. The first, representing Australia, was this wonderfully wonky Koala and Joey tea towel, commemorating the bi-centennial. It's held up very well for...
Wow into the new year already! First crop out of the ground at Chez Fork is radishes - always a good choice for a fast start. I planted three varieties of radish, China Rose (The Lost Seed), French...
This person's determination to have a veggie garden, despite difficult circumstnces, means more to me than any other garden I've seen this year. May all our gardens grow with such spirit in 2012!
There is just no telling what plants will and will not grow and thrive in your garden. Take these two squash plants. Both were grown from the same batch of seeds, planted at the same time, in the...
Middle-aged public servants take on the veggie patch and life's other challenges.
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