Our family has been in our new home for a year now.  Between work and children, home life and gardening, it can sometimes feel as though the progress is slow.  Painfully slow sometimes.  But these holidays I’ve taken the time to stop.  Really pause, and look at what we’ve managed to accomplish in 12 months. […]

Winter is an incredibly productive time to be working in the garden.  Even though most of the plants are dormant, there’s plenty of pruning, planting and transplanting to do.  Winter is also the perfect time to give all your potted plants the once-over to ensure they’ve got everything they need to put on strong growth […]

It has been a busy season here at home.  I’ve started working 5 days a week and so have been trying to cram in a week’s worth of gardening into the weekends.  Time with the kids has also been limited so I’ve tried to convince them that they love gardening too so I can spend […]

Five months after moving into our new home, I am ready to turn my focus to the outside and get stuck into the vegetable garden.  We were lucky to have inherited a fenced vegie patch of a good size, but it’s in need of a lot of tidying and reworking.  When we moved in, I […]

Another season has almost passed by and I thought I’d write an update to my post here on the drought we’re experiencing at the farm. Sadly, autumn thus far has delivered us next to no rain and the future predictions on rainfall in our area over the coming year is not good. It’s hard to […]