Well, as you can see, I didn't get back here yesterday. I had a full on day of Christmas preparations at work. Our Christmas hampers a...

Technically, some common vegetables like tomatoes, squash and cucumbers, are fruit. For this post, I'm referring to everything as "...

This is the plant we're saving for its seeds. Sorry, it's a bit overexposed. There is a celery plant in our vegetable garden that r...

We have declared war on fruit fly, that summer pest we get here in Queensland but from recent reports has moved south to Melbourne. Those o...

I'm not sure what causes it to happen, but every so often we get an influx of new readers. Now is one of those times so I welcome all t...

It's been a gruelling couple of days here. Tuesday afternoon my DIL Cathy was rushed to hospital with high blood pressure. My step son ...

I picked a swag of tomatoes the other day. They're still green, a few are starting to turn red, but basically they're green tomatoe...

We have a snake living in the chook house. I think she is there for the mice and rats that hang around at night eating the leftover grain a...

While I was at work yesterday, Hanno planted up a lot of seedlings for our summer garden. When we first came to live here 12 years ago, we ...