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Article 'What you didn't know you need to know about burying animal carcasses in the veggie garden.'- Grandmother Goose
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So, this year I purchased some sugar beet seed to play with a bit. I have an area at our country acreage that I wanted to cultivate this year for weed control to establish an area of native tall grass prairie plants and we decided to broadcast the seed at one end of this section. This is...
In our modern world full of technology, sometimes little things of the past get lost and forgotten about as new products take over the market to replace older ways of doing things. Sometimes, the new ways of doing things aren't always better in the long run. How and why we scent our homes is one...
What is a quandong? That is the most common response I get whenever the topic comes up, unless I'm talking to someone local to my area where they not only grow naturally, but there's also small quandong farms out here in the far west semi-arid deserts of NSW, and I believe some in north western...
Just like we get colds and flus and stomach bugs, plants can suffer from disease as well. Not the same diseases that we get obviously, they have their own long list of infections to deal with. Don't worry, plants generally don't pass their diseases onto us, but plant diseases can certainly spoil...
As kids, most of us ate and loved jelly. As adults, most of us still love the stuff, but we tend to start looking at it as a junk food treat because, let's be real, most jelly on the market is nothing but sugar, gelatin (gelatine), colour, and flavouring. Sometime we'll kid ourselves that we're...
Before I begin, please note it is an official campsite and we've kept to the rules. Please follow your area's guidelines and don't accept what I say in here as fact for every campsite. Every place has their own rules.
Eungella
The specific campsite we went to is called Eungella dam. It's on...
Now this might seem like a strange combination of cuisines, but Koreans have taken Vietnamese rice-paper wraps and made it their own. Traditional Korean wrap cuisine, known as Bo Ssam, uses vegetable leaves like cabbage, lettuce, seaweed and perilla leaf for wrapping, with fillings chosen at the...
General Gardening
What you didn't know you need to know about burying animal carcasses in the veggie garden.
I just finished watching Mark's latest video
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In the video he showed how burying a small animal that has passed away in your garden bed will help fill the bed, fertilise the soil, and most importantly break down to nothing but a few bones. I can confirm that burying a small animal...
After reading a comment from someone struggling to keep their mint plants alive, I felt like asking, what amazing thing is happening that makes mint die? I've never had it happen, I've even TRIED to make it happen and failed. Mint completely taking over the yard however, been there done that...
We all love to grow in our gardens and will feed ourselves and our family with it... but did you know you could grow healthy snacks for your trusty companion as well? In this article I’d like to show what you could grow for your pets – and what not to feed them!
Before I begin, I would like to...
Ever since I moved to Australia there is this one sauce I can't find anywhere - and no, garlic aioli does not taste the same. So I asked my mom, "I remember you made us garlic sauce when I was a kid... could you share your recipe with me".
This recipe is made for garlic lovers such as myself...
Many people only ever hear of the disadvantages and problems a rooster can cause especially in an urban environment where loud noises like crowing can be a worry; but, there are several reasons why keeping a rooster is a good idea if local council laws in your area permit.
1. Protection -...