Tag: brisbane
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Water Parsley
(Oenanthe javanica) •Excellent spreading groundcover for wet or boggy ground. •Grows well in the shade or sun (with adequate water). •The young leaves and stems can be eaten raw in salads or cooked in stir-fries. •Has a light, carrot/parsley-like flavour. •Rich source of vitamins and minerals. •Widely eaten throughout the Orient. •Also grows well has…
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Millaa-millaa vine (Elaeagnus triflora var. triflora)
Picture of immature fruit courtesy of Jason Hauser.
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Frugal ‘Lasagna’ Edible Garden
For those keen to try your hand at growing your own food, it can be tempting to rush out to the hardware store and load up on retail garden products. Using bags of premium soil, bagged mulches, soil amendments, slow-release fertilizer, the cost can quickly add up. Gardening this way quickly adds up. At minimum…
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Fruit Fly Control
by Jason Hauser You can generally expect fruit fly (FF) activity to begin slowly increasing from early August, with their numbers rapidly climbing into late Spring through Summer, before starting to ease around mid-to-late Autumn. Alarmingly, there are now many areas around South East Queensland where FF activity persists to some level all year round…
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Bananas
There are so many great varieties of banana to grow in Queensland. W currently grow Pisang Ceylon, Blue Java (ice-cream banana), Ducasse, Dwarf Ducasse, Red Dacca, Pisang mas (monkey banana), Lady finger and Cavendish. We have a real preference for the Pisang mas, it is more of a tropical variety of sugar banana, thin skin…
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Tomatoes
By Jason Hauser There’s thousands of varieties, hundreds of strategies for growing them, and just as many ways to be UNsuccessful growing them! I reckon I’ve tried many of the latter over the years and learned plenty the hard way Our subtropical climate seems hell bent on making sure we seldom see a perfect ripe…
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Pond
Ponds are a wonderful addition to any garden. They are beautiful, encourage wildlife and improve your microclimate. Pond habitats are also a source of nesting materials for birdlife, seeds as food and leaf stems for some frogs to lay their eggs. Construction If you have the room, bathtubs and IBCs cut in half make excellent…
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Pumpkins
By Jason Hauser We usually fail to grow them on purpose but succeed spectacularly when growing them by accident, and usually in places we didn’t really want to grow them. In a food forest setting they also have a place. The common notion is to grow them as a ground cover like you see on…
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Finger Lime (Citrus australasica)
Dr Ketah Silvester Native finger lime. Think citrus caviar! Squeeze it out the tube and enjoy. So good. One of the best Australian natives to cultivate in your edible garden! Pink champagne finger lime. Blood orange finger lime hybrid from CSIRO. Another CSIRO finger lime hybrid.
Brisbane Edible Gardening 