Tag: Gardening

Bookmarked Citrus gall wasp (Agriculture Victoria)

The citrus gall wasp (Bruchophagus fellis) is a native insect native to coastal regions around the border of Queensland and New South Wales. It has now spread throughout the eastern states, including South Australia and Victoria and has also been found in suburban Perth. The wasp produces lumpy, woody galls around it’s larvae on branches. The galls weaken the trees, reducing fruit size and yield and sometimes causing branch dieback.

Citrus gall wasp

Inspired by Gardening Australia, I went with ‘peal and reveal’ to deal with the gall wasp infestation.

Liked Climate change could take your lawn, so here’s how to future-proof your garden by Smriti Daniel (ABC News)

His advice for climate proofing your garden?

“Really look at designing the garden for extreme heat” – and begin with carefully considering your choice of plants.

“A garden is not a hospital, it’s not there to plant plants that need to be tended or are delicate or need to be mothered along.”

Replied to Eat This Newsletter 118: Toot toot (buttondown.email)

I’ve got this far, so I may as well continue to self-promote like crazy. You may remember Suzanne Dunaway telling me about how she started and then sold a fabulous artisan bakery in Los Angeles. Suzanne was one of the first authors to write about no-knead bread, so it was something of a pleasure to discover that she is also something of a no-gardening gardener. Her story of broad beans and radishes made me smile and sent me outside in search of neglected dill weed and sweetpeas.

Jeremy, I really enjoyed the piece on no-garden gardening:

In January, with faith in Mother Nature (and confident the earth under the hemp layer was alive with worms), I literally walked away from playing gardener. I threw away the two full packets of lettuce and radish seeds I’d intended to plant. I tossed a bit of cover dirt and replaced the mulch. After which I put the garden out of my mind.

This year I have stepped back. I bought a chilli plant in hope, as well as a zucchini, but in the end I just let it go. I have subsequently had tomatoes pop-up all through the garden, as well as various herbs, without the usual stress and rigour.

Replied to The garden in the mind – Austin Kleon (Austin Kleon)

Liberty Hyde Bailey’s thoughts on gardening and how they relate to creative work.

I love this quote Austin.

I know poets who do not write poetry, artists who do not paint, architects who do not build. I know gardeners who do not garden.

It makes me wonder about teachers who do not teach and the importance of first and foremost caring.