Category: Feature Content
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Bush Food Plant Book
Many Australian native plants are edible but not all are as palatable as others. Check out this new booklet, that introduces some of the tastiest and most rewarding Australian natives to grow around SEQ. Produced by Brisbane Edible Gardening, a community education organisation and Land for Wildlife member, based in Brisbane’s west and Paten Park…
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Book Availability 2022
Brisbane Edible Gardening now has two booklets available. Available for purchase at: Paten Park Native Nursery (The Gap)https://ppnn.org.au/ Northey Street City Farm (Windsor), https://www.facebook.com/northeystreetcityfarm Jez’s Seedlings (Inala)https://www.facebook.com/jezsseedlings/
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Brazilian Spinach (Alternanthera sissoo)
•Low growing perennial to 30cm. •Extremely hardy and low maintenance. •One of the toughest plants in the garden. •Drought tolerant. •Handles a range of soils (except waterlogging conditions). •Grows well in medium shade to full sun. •Makes an attractive border plant. •Leaves can be eaten raw in salad. •Leaves can be tough, watering the plant…
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5 Staple Salad Greens for Every Garden
If the recent floods have taught us anything it’s that having backyard produce is a wonderful thing. The catch is that growing your own food isn’t always as easy, particularly for those of us with jobs, kids and busy lives. That’s where Brisbane Edible Gardening comes in. Let’s start with salad greens. Whether you live…
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Why Perennial Plants?
For many years we gardened, diligently buying potting mix and planting European annuals like large tomatoes, cabbage, eggplants, lettuce etc. While we had some successes, lettuce often wilted and tomatoes were plagued with pests. The effort and expense involved kept us buying from the local grocery store. However, all of that changed after a chance…
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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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