Berries in Spring in Canberra

Besides figs, berries are some of my favourite things to eat. Always full of flavour, most berries are also extremely high in antioxidants and other healthy goodness. Blueberries in particular are always being touted as superfoods. Blueberries  Unripe Berried on Powder-Blue All my blueberries are coming along nicely, except for one, which flowered profusely and then unexpectedly died with the big frost two weeks ago.  Although...

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October- A month of Highs and Lows and The Great Container Mix Experiment Begins

Extreme Weather Well, Canberra has had quite interesting weather in the first couple of months of Spring. Unusually warm days followed by unusually cold nights means that I have been hauling my seedlings back and forth each morning and night into the shelter of their grow closet. It’s getting quite tedious. Being several months old now all the seedlings are getting larger, and the tomatoes especially have begun to outgrow their nightly home. Seedlings...

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