Monthly gardening column for ABC Everyday
I write a monthly column for ABC Everyday on organic gardening in small urban spaces. Here's my column catalogue, full of tips to get you growing.
Pick and cure your own foraged olives, the traditional Sicilian way
Olives grow abundantly in many cities, yet often go unpicked. Here's how to forage a free harvest, then cure your own delicious jars of Italian-style olives.
How to make an urban roadside honesty stall for veggies, flowers, seedlings + more
Honesty stalls are common in country areas — little stores filled with homegrown produce sold to passers-by, who pay into unattended cashboxes. Not so in cities. Here's how we created our urban stall.
Top 50 South Aussie permaculture, gardening & farming Instagram accounts to follow
Here's a list of my favourite South Aussie Instagram accounts, so you can share in their awesomeness, too. These are folk I love to follow for constant inspiration, tips, knowledge exchange and ideas ♥
Homemade exfoliating coffee and cinnamon soap
Recycle used coffee grounds into a luxuriously exfoliating and all-natural homemade coffee and cinnamon soap.
Homemade soap, the traditional Castile way
A Spanish grandmother shares her traditional recipe for homemade soap from Spain's Castilla-La Mancha region, the original home of the popular Castile soap.
![Wanna grow food in your rental but can't dig up the lawn? Anna aka @theurbannanna has a solution for that...
*unnecessary drumroll*
Pots! Grow everything in pots. That way, you can pack 'em up and take them with you if you need to move.
And they don't even need to be big ones — in her urban Naarm / Melbourne rental, Anna has fruit trees thriving in pots that are only 50cm across.
I love this 'just make it work with what you've got' approach to gardening. Simple, uncomplicated, effective. With lots of permaculture design thinking woven in.
You might enjoy the chat I had with Anna for my @abc_everyday column? (The link's in my bio.)
In the article, Anna runs through:
〰️ What types of pots to get and how to source them cheaply or free.
〰️ Which food plants are best to start with.
〰️ And possibly my fave hack ever — how to avoid buying plastic-wrapped potting mix, by using the no-dig philosophy in your pots. Genius. 🙌
Uh, I actually first wrote this piece almost a full year ago ... but realised I never chucked it here on the grid. Too good not to share, I reckon.
So, belatedly, enjoy. 😊
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