It's a mystery to me why all gardeners don't make their own compost. It is an important part of gardening, will help enrich your so...

Good morning! This time next week it will all be over. Our wedding is next Saturday and we are calmly (I think) moving towards the big day...

If you planted a tomato into virgin Australian soil (and probably most other virgin soils) and watered it, it might live and produce small t...

I think it's wonderful that there are a lot of new vegetable gardeners now. Growing food is part of a new way of living for some, it he...

We live in a bit of a retro world here. Most of the time it's not like we're living in the 21st century, it's more like a time ...

When you first take up your trowel and fork and start planting vegetable seeds for the first time there is a very strong tendency to ov...

Comfort food usually makes a comeback whenever the economy does a nose dive. We also tend to use more of the cheaper cuts of meat, waste les...

The work of the homemaker is getting tougher. We are battling hard economic times and trying to stick to our budgets while food and fuel pr...

Fairy cakes were baked last week. We've had a few busy days here. I sent my book proposal off to New York again yesterday afternoon aft...

It didn't take us long to realise that raised vegetable garden beds were better for the type of gardening we do than anything else. We ...