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Sharing our edible gardening journey from our suburban block in outer east Melbourne, Australia

04/08/2026

A little bit of colour to brighten up the winter garden. How good is rainbow chard at bringing a pop of colour as well as being great to eat?! The Aloe Vera is flowering in the background to further add some colour onto the gloomy winter days. Now I just need to work on taking pictures without my shadow blocking half the image and the limited sunshine of late! 😆

29/07/2026

Sprouting broccoli is starting to kick into gear. Love the cut and grow again of the sprouting broccoli, a great plant for increasing your harvests in smaller growing spaces.
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27/06/2026

Feels like I have been supporting these pumpkins for way too long, so time for a harvest and get them in before some expected strong frosts this week. We are down to our last pumpkin from last season, so this will help keep us going for a fair bit longer yet. Although we are not fully self sufficient from the garden, it’s always exciting to get through a full year without the need for buying a particular veggie.
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30/05/2026

Gardening is one big experiment. Unfortunately with the weather changing and winter officially starting on Monday, some of the Luffa Gourds are starting to show some spots of rots before they have had a chance to dry out on the vine, so I am experimenting with a few to see how they will go hanging up in the shed. I haven’t tried this before so not sure what will happen but 🤞 it works.
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24/05/2026

Midyim Berries! A great little Australian native berry that has a bit of an earthy peppery kick to it that is super abundant in the garden at the moment. The last picture has some raspberries to help show the size scale, as they are only very small little berries and I thought the other pictures made them look bigger than what they are.
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09/05/2026

Growing food is all about slowing down, looking for signs and seeing what the garden is telling you. Harvested the first of the kiwifruit today, because the rats have decided to let me know they are about ready to do so! If you look closely enough at the last picture you will notice some rat nibbles on the fruit at the back, this tells me they have noticed the sweetness is coming as they pass by them each night smelling them. And where they have nibbled some of the fruit the seeds inside the kiwifruit have turned black which is a good sign they about right as well.
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19/04/2026

A mad rush to prep some of the veggie beds in between running the kids around today with some of my seedlings super keen to get out into the garden. Cleared out a few of the spent tomatoes and the weeds that were trying to take over, then mixed in some Organic Life all round fertiliser gifted from to get some life and feed back into the soil and will now let it sit for a week or two and then I can plant!
A good mix into the soil and watering of the fertiliser will help it start doing its thing and bringing the life back into the soil, giving your seedlings a great head start.

12/04/2026

The gardens full of highs and lows at this time of year, super excited with the loofah gourds and hoping the frosts can hold off a little longer to ensure the fully develop, but not excited about having to clear out some of the spent plants to make room for the Autumn plantings.whats happening in your garden at the moment?

10/04/2026

Love starting the day with a walk around the garden, even when it is a bit chilli! So many garden jobs waiting to be done with the seasonal changeover, particularly cleaning up some beds and feeding the soil for the next plantings. What are you up to in the garden this weekend?

09/04/2026

My mystery apple tree has finally given us its first crop, and they are going down a treat. Not sure the variety, as I saved this tree from someone that was moving house and unfortunately the didn’t know the variety, however I am unofficially going to label it as a red delicious apple as it has a very similar look and taste.

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