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Category Archives: Going Green
A Sea Of Green
It has been a month since my last post. This is going to be an iPhone picture post to show you how my veggies have been progressing. We cannot keep up with the lettuce supply but nothing else is in … Continue reading
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Tagged homegrown, sustainability, vegetable garden, veggie patch
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The Experimental Summer
It’s been 199 days or 6 months 16 days since my last blog post. I admit I got a bit bored with it. After all, I had proved that I can blog and I can have followers. There must be … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Going Green
Tagged basil, beans, fruit, homegrown, lettuce, seedlings, sustainability, tomato, veggie patch
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Summer Harvest – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
My aim for this summer was to see if we could live off what I grew in the garden only buying what we didn’t grow. Some good, some bad and some decidedly ugly. The Good Tomatoes I cannot remember the … Continue reading
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Tagged eating, homegrown, melbourne, sustainability, veggie patch
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Fear Of The Pantry
I suffer from Pantry Phobia. The fear of opening those pantry doors and discovering what is behind them. Nutritional information. That is a contradiction in terms, isn’t it? When you say something is nutritious, it usually means it is good … Continue reading
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Tagged asian street food, eating, homegrown, nutrition, shopping
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Growing Veggies, My Favourite Resources
There really is such a thing as “too much info.” You can spend hours surfing the net looking for one piece of information. It’s quite astounding how so many people can write about the same thing. And there is a … Continue reading
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Tagged eating, homegrown, melbourne, sustainability, vegetable garden, veggie patch
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Growing Veggies, Lessons Learnt
Two years ago, we bought our first three vegetable crates. A year later, we had a further two inbuilt patches in our front yard. In addition, we have various fruit and olive trees. We actually have a reasonably big garden … Continue reading
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Tagged eating, food, homegrown, sustainability, vegetable garden, veggie patch
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Instant Satisfaction
Anyone who has grown vegetables or any green things knows that there is really no such thing as instant satisfaction. If you grow from seed, satisfaction is even further away. But there are some things that you do in the … Continue reading
The Bucket List
A friend asked me the other day “Do you have a bucket list?” Without much hesitation, I shook my head and replied “No, never really thought about it.” But it did get me to thinking. Is it ever too early … Continue reading
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Tagged beetroot, bucket list, eating, feta
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It’s A New Year
It’s been over a month since my last post. Happy New Year! The longest rest stint I have ever had. With Christmas, New Year and school holidays thrown in between, I admit it’s been a little hard to get motivated. … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Going Green, Random Thoughts
Tagged eating, homegrown, melbourne, vegetables, veggie patch
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