Category: Companion
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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.
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Costa Georgiadis Comes to the Garden!
Brisbane Edible Gardening were thrilled to welcome Costa Georgiadis, popular Gardening Australia TV host and educator, to our experimental edible garden last weekend. Watch this lovely video with the Samford Edible Gardens Trail presenter Susanne, Costa and Brisbane Edible Gardening’s Ketah. See the experimental garden looking lush following the recent rains! Learn more about the…
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Grow it Local
Grow it local. It’s all about a backbone of perennials. The world is changing and when supply lines are interrupted, a backbone of perennials in the garden makes all the difference. The recent Queensland floods highlight the importance of local food sources. The scientific evidence overwhelmingly shows that extreme weather events will only increase in…
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How our productive Brisbane garden started and how it has progressed
Our experimental garden is located about 27 km west of Brisbane’s CBD. The original 2-acre block contained a house, a fence, degraded waterway and lots of weeds. The property has since been transformed into a house and garden that generates abundant fresh produce, uses efficient water management (including rainwater, stormwater and greywater), runs using solar…
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