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- Where do you live and garden?
- Tropcial North Queensland, Australia
- How long have you been growing food?
- 4-10 years
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Tasmania
- Favorite foods:
- Spicy Indian food
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gardening year round in the tropics
I was wondering what I was doing wrong with my luffas -
The veggie garden fence is a tangle of vines -
the thick snake… Continue
Posted on January 31, 2010 at 6:45pm — 10 Comments
I did it - I ate some sweet potato leaves!
It is very hot and humid at… Continue
Posted on December 1, 2009 at 6:23pm — 10 Comments
Recycling to make a beautiful garden feature
We do however have mosquitoes, and at this time of the year always have mosquito coils burning....... along with a couple of citronella candles,....... along with personal insect repellent on really bad evenings.
So.. I was eying these palm fronds that just lie around the bases of palm trees and end up in the landfill. I nabbed this one from a friend and voila - a trop… Continue
Posted on November 26, 2009 at 5:34pm — 7 Comments
Honeyeaters
Posted on November 25, 2009 at 10:39pm — 3 Comments
Tropical fruits
There are so many mangoes everywhere - the road to work is bumpy with fallen mangoes. Most locals do not like the mangoes that grow wild and so they just fall to the ground and rot. The trees are also huge, so it is very hard to pick them, but everytime I see some within reac… Continue
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 5:26pm — 4 Comments
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- At 6:37pm on January 31, 2010,
Maggie said… - We have not had rain and the temperature is in the 30 degrees range so it is good for ripening tomatoes and chillies.
We had a lovely morning at the Adelaide Farmers market yesterday and my fridge is bursting with things to make chutney with. Maybe tonight, seems a shame to be inside on a nice day.
I don't like the sound of that snake!
Have a great day. Maggie
- At 5:50pm on January 31, 2010,
Maggie said…
- Hi Gillian, What's the weather like there and how is your garden after all that rain?
- At 5:58am on January 24, 2010,
Maggie said…
- Hi Gillian,
i see the cyclones have reached land and been down graded but you still have high winds, thunder storms and lots of rain.
How is your lovely garden standing up to this weather?
- At 2:11am on January 23, 2010,
Maggie said…
- Hi Gillian,
My Mum just rang me to tell me about the weather warnings for you part of Australia.
I hope you are all safe and that your garden is ok.
Cheers Maggie
- At 12:34am on January 13, 2010,
Angela said… - Ontdekkers is on the other side of railway line and we are more nearer to Wilro Park but more closer to Hillfox centre...if you still remembered it.
Well, we grew up in Cape Town till three years ago we moved up here for our better jobs. We are much happier here as the weather is wonderful here, lot better than Cape Town.
It must be wonderful to live in Cairns...What happened to your yacht that you sailed around the world? My husband and I would love to ride on our motorbikes around the world but we can't afford and we have children to care for. Maybe when we retire, we might start to think what we can do with our lives.
Can you please send some photos of the tropical plants? I wonder if you mean the palm trees, all those types of plants. What vegetable plants do you have in your garden?
Hope to hear from you.
- At 5:28am on January 12, 2010,
Angela said…
- Hi Gillian,
Nice to "meet" you! Florida is not far from where I live...in Strubens Valley. Where about in Australia do you live? What do you do for a living?
Till I hear from you
- At 10:33pm on January 10, 2010,
Mary Riekert said…
- Thanks Gillian - I will send you my address via email. I certainly remember guavas and custard! You can get tinned guavas from the South African shop in Melbourne and they also have a website: http://www.thesouthafricanshop.com.au/ if you want some vir oulaas!
- At 6:18pm on January 10, 2010,
Mary Riekert said…
- Hi Gillian
Happy New Year to you. I have been away in Perth for Christmas and it was good to swim in the Indian Ocean again. I had forgotten just how nice it is - quite unlike our cold southern seas down here where even in high summer you need a wetsuit to stay in for any length of time. Perth was lovely and the gardens there reminded me a lot of Durban with lots of bougainvilleas and frangipanni. I have had no luck with gem squash here. It just gets too hot now in the summer even though I am meant to be in a Cool zone (I am in Victoria up in the hills outside Melbourne). Thanks you for your offer of seeds. I got very excited to see gem squash for sale in a greengrocer in Perth as they are one of the things I miss most - you can get just about everything else here. I also really miss pink guavas - you can but white guavas in the Asian shops here but they are hard. Do you get pink guavas in Qld?
- At 9:51pm on December 26, 2009,
purplepear said…
- Thanks Gillian for your nice words. We love our garden, it is a great place to be and very productive. Now that we have some rain in the Hunter we can look foward to corn, melons, and many summer crops that seemed almost impossible a few days ago. It was a great Christmas present.
- At 11:42pm on December 24, 2009,
Kathryn said…
- Merry Christmas Gillian
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