Category Archives: Grow Your Own Food

I don’t know about you, but we eat a lot of potatoes. I mean a LOT of potatoes and luckily for us they are super easy to grow. Plant them just as the weather starts to warm up in early spring. Dig a trench (if planting in rows) and drop a potato in at 20cm […]

If you have the space for them, cows are an amazing addition to the home garden ecosystem. There manure is incredibly high in nutrients and organic matter whilst having virtually no weed seeds. I put their manure fresh onto beds I don’t plan to plant in for a while. I add it to my compost. […]

So for a long time I couldn’t decide what was better between raised beds (ie: wooden sides) and rows (ie: long market garden style rows on the ground). Raised beds drain better, have more organic matter, are easier to harvest, easier to weed, etc. Rows allow for you to grow a lot more food in […]

You know you had to fall over 10,000 times before you learnt to walk? …and growing food is way easier than walking! Plants are simple. If they have 3 things they thrive. If your plants aren’t doing well most likely one of these needs isn’t being met Light. Most plants we grow for food want […]

Start with things you like to eat. Plant corn, tomatoes, capsicums, pumpkins, zucchinis and cucumbers in mid Spring. Plant brassicas in late winter or late summer. Plant onions and leeks any time of the year. Plant greens any time of the year. Plant herbs in Spring and Autumn. The trick is to always be planting. […]

I have two veggie gardens. One was here when I arrived and the other one I built. The one that was here when I arrived doesn’t get every single seedling demolished in one night… the new veggie garden does. So what’s the difference? The new garden is professionally built with strong tort wire. The old […]

There are lots of different types of mulch, mostly Wood chips, sugar cane and straw. The best kind of mulch is none of these… it’s leaves! Leaves will create organic matter as they break down, they won’t block water from getting to the soil and they are in plentiful supply! They also make an excellent […]

I don’t know why but know one seems to appreciate their gutters. Your gutter is an automated compost machine. The leaves and black dark organic matter you pull out of there is the best kind of compost! It’s teaming with worms and is already semi-broken down. Don’t throw it away! I like to put it […]

Let me start by saying I’m a huge fan of my products.. I wouldn’t be selling them if I wasn’t. I see first hand every day how they change people’s lives without side effects or any downside. Yet there is something even better than our super foods…. it’s growing your own whole foods. When you […]