Category: Companion
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Taringa Community Garden Flower Workshop (June 4th 2023)
Thank you to all of the lovely community members who came out early on Sunday morning to talk everything flowers. For those interested in information on propagating flower cuttings (particularly salvias), check out this Gardening Australia video. Salvia Garden – Gardening Australia (abc.net.au) Special thanks to the lovely Claire and her great team for the…
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Companion Flowers
Diversity is a key component of our edible garden. This goes far beyond the hundreds of edible species of plants we grow and extends into a wide range of beautiful flowering plants. While the majority of these aren’t edible, they support our native bees and other pollinators while also making the garden beautiful (especially during…
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Ornamentals or Edibles, do I have to choose? By Jason Hauser
For the suburban gardener the ornamental nature of their garden holds a great deal of importance. Aside from personal satisfaction, many suburban gardeners also hope to delight, or draw the attention of, passers-by or visiting relatives with their eye-catching plantings. Increasingly, suburban gardeners are also wanting to growing edible plants. Sadly, many believe that planting…
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Frangrance from Flowers
Lovely fragrant oils can be made from your garden flowers. If you are just after a fragrant oil, it’s pretty easy. Simply add the flower petals to your (low scent) oil, soak for 24 hours then drain. After that you’ve got steam distillation, other solvent extraction, expression, sieving, or enfleurage. This is more complex chemistry and…
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Native Bees
Native bees are wonderful pollinators. Most native Australian bees are solitary animals that you can easily attract to your garden by hanging up native bee hotels. These hotels were constructed for native Reed Bees by filling a series of 20cm deep holes with pithy stems (in this case Tiger Grass and Lantana). Other native bees…
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What are Food Forests?
Food forests are a low maintenance garden system. They have the resilience and beauty of a natural system and consist primarily of long lived perennial plants planted in layers from the ground to the tree tops. In this system plants complement each other, provide shelter and minimise weeds and pests. Don’t be fooled into thinking…
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Best Gardening for the West…
What a lovely write up in this month’s edition of The Local Bulletin. Thank you for helping us get the word out Barry. file:///C:/Users/ketah/OneDrive/Documents/Brisbane%20Edible%20Gardening/Bulletin_article_May2022.pdf
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Best Gardening for West Brisbane
What a lovely write up in this month’s edition of The Local Bulletin. Thank you for helping us get the word out Barry.
Brisbane Edible Gardening 