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Gardening is peaceful and relaxing. Spending time in the garden helps me escape my worries and gives me the feeling of getting back to something basic and important. I grow things because I enjoy it. The garden bulges with too many lettuces, radishes, tomatoes, pumpkins, chillies, capsicums and eggplants, and the flowers rambling through everything so it is lucky the birds and the possums like them also.

On this web site I'll share my gardening experiences with others by offering ideas, images, and information about my own garden. I include pictures of my garden at different times of the year, along with useful tips to help others develop a green thumb of their own.

There are two images of suburban life today:

The first is of a neat house set in a mown lawn with trimmed shrubs and a sandpit, a clean kitchen with yesterday's take-away containers on the sink, and the latest videos to fill life after dinner.

The second is of a suburban jungle, as maze of tangled fruit trees and grape vines, carpets of strawberries, vegetables and flowers. One trips over boxes full with dried vegetables and fruit and the kitchen smells of summer tomatoes and of the basil, majoram and thyme in in the dryer. The kitchen shelves are full, and so are the lives of the inhabitants.

The richness of our lives depends on our surrounding and what we fill them with.

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Job File for the last month of Summer

Keep up the watering
Remove summer annuals as they finish flowering
Order spring flowering bulbs
Trim summer flowering shrubs as they fade
Watch out for fungal diseases
Take cuttings of softwood and semi hardwood
Erect Shadecloth screens for tender plants
Check roses for powdery mildew and black spot
Weed and fertilise vegetables, and pick crops regularly
Vegetables to plant
Seedlings:
Broccoli, cabbage, celery, leek, silver beet

Seeds in containers to plant out in autumn:
beetroot, lettuce, onion, parsnip, radish

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Will you care for your garden and cherish with me
Joy of the mountain and dew of the sea
collect their green bounty and rescatter the seeds
of basil and savory for next year's needs?
will you gather rose petals pot-pourri to make
and harvest the hips for old time's sake
will you weave tiny baskets from lavender stalks
collected here and there on herb garden walks?

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My herb patch, with lots of kitchen and medicinal herbs

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Our cellar in mid-summer. Lots more veggies and preserves to come in autumn.

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Our wild garden in mid-summer.

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My husband, Hermann with one month of potato harvest

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Pumpkins rambling everywhere