When you grow a lot of tomatoes, there is an inevitable glut of green tomatoes at the end of the season. We do all the normal tricks like picking them when they even show a smidge of colour and letting them ripen in large flat bowls in the kitchen. We also pull the whole plants out of […]
Sweet pastry for fruit slices ( include GLUTEN-FREE flour instead of standard flour for GF ) Ingredients Method Notes For plums, apricots, nectarines, peaches, the best filling method is to slow roast the fruit by halving the fruit and single layer them out on baking trays, sprinkle with a little sugar to draw out the
Ingredients: Method Notes This recipe adapts well to using gluten free flours. Include gluten free flour instead of standard flours for gluten free options It is quite sweet and you can reduce the sugar as well but the chewiness will be affected, not so much the flavour which comes from the quince, lemon and vanilla
Bulbs and bulbous plants add an extra dimension to a garden by providing a burst of seasonal interest. Such interest adds a degree of excitement and expectation to your garden, as you eagerly await the performance of each plant in your garden. One of the great things about living in South Australia is that our
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Garlic is easy to grow and deserves a place in your vegie patch, or even in your ornamental garden. With growing concern over the quality, growing conditions and chemical treatment of the readily available, imported garlic, more and more gardeners are having a go at growing their own. Even apart from the questionable inputs when
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Whenever I travel, I love to see gardens I have heard of or seen on Gardening Australia, or ones that are recommended by locals and Open Gardens SA. Some of my favourites are the Botanic Gardens in Adelaide, Blackwood and Mt Lofty; Carrick Hill; The Waite Arboretum; and The Cedars. Botanic Gardens With three to
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If there is one group of plants that I love the most, it is probably those with scented flowers (I’ll stop quickly before I think too much, or it will be those with colourful flowers, those that provide shade or those that feed us!?). While I am aware of many scents during the day, it
As published in the Weekender Herald on 24th January and 31st January 2019 with additional images. I am an obsessive-compulsive gardener who is addicted to growing things, especially vegies. Blessed to have a large vegie patch of my own, I like to try different crops and different ways of growing things. As many gardeners have
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Rose pruning Many years ago, my mother told me a story about a public rose pruning demonstration with three esteemed rose gurus. It was held on a weekend in a public rose garden and she watched how each of them pruned their roses. Each of them had their own special of doing it and some
Growing Jerusalem Artichoke This June I have also dug up the Jerusalem artichoke or sunchoke bed and have a wheelbarrow full of these amazing knobbly root vegies from a bed of several square metres. They are best harvested when the plants due down over winter and ideally after good frosts to get the best flavour.
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