Flemington Earthbag Garden Archives - Page 7 of 11

REMNANTS LIKE SPECKS OF PAINT

September 6, 2011 No Comments

Our little nature strip guerrilla garden has burst into life as winter and spring fight it out (looks like the last week of 20 degrees and glorious sunshine will be battered down to 11 degrees and dreariness by the end of the week. Sigh.). The broccoli has formed beautiful heads and the cauliflower is shyly following. After hearing about the local naughties raiding nearby community and school gardens, in some cases departing with whole strawberry plants, I have been delighted to see no one has taken anything. Sure people seem to think it is a good place to dispose of junk mail and empties but otherwise people have left it alone. More surprising, as is technically public land people have more of a right to have a nibble, but don’t tell them I said that until after I have harvested my first cauliflower, he’s just so cute.

Here is the recipe for the Broccoli and chilli pasta with garlic breadcrumbs.

Garden, Recipes

BUBBLING AND BLOOPING

September 5, 2011 2 Comments

Dylan and Ryan have been bonding over making a new batch of home brew. It has been merrily bubbling and “blooping” in our living room for weeks, snugly wrapped in a sleeping bag, waiting patiently for our two protagonists to organise their social calendars already and bottle him up. They monopolised the bathroom to clean and sterilise the bottles, Ryan making some pretty pop art out of the discarded labels. Then the merry brew was poured, sugared and bottled. There is something so satisfying about it all being bottled away and stacked in the crates, I’m sure if I was a beer drinker this would not be the satisfying part…so Dylan how about some home brew cider?

Garden, Recipes

HOMEMADE PASTA – IT’S HARD WORK

September 4, 2011 No Comments

I made tortellini from scratch for Sunday night dinner, and oh my stars it was a lot of work! It was very satisfying, but I’m not sure I’ll do it again until I am really trying to impress someone.

As is my usual cooking style it was a mix between three different recipes this one, this one and one from an old Italian cookbook that my mum lent me. I don’t know why I can’t just follow one recipe, commitment issues?

My mix and match recipe went something like this:

Baked Spinach and Ricotta Tortellini with Pumpkin and Sage Sauce

Garden

A YEAR OF GARDENING

July 31, 2011 No Comments

It’s been a year since we started our first little 1x.8m veggie garden bed, we have slowly taken over every available space like weeds. No bare patch of soil is safe in our garden!

Our first transition into winter was a bit clunky, and I’m determined to have the garden bursting with produce all year round, the huge paved area is begging to be used. Doing our final design for our PDC has inspired us and we’re going to see if the landlord will let us completely make over the garden. Fingers crossed.