Posts Tagged ‘Horticulture’

• Look What I Got

  Date: 2009.01.01 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 5

  

  Well aren’t I the lucky one?

  My uncle came up to visit this Christmas, he has just retired from his job as a lecturer in arboriculture at one of the big universities. He has taught there for many years and before that lived and studied in the United States. Anyway, he has literally hundreds of horticultural and gardening books from information laden text books through to big glossy coffee table numbers.

  Well he decided he needs to pare down his collection a bit and so I was the lucky recipient of many fantastic books. As you can imagine, I’m very happy about it. Loads of inspiration there.

  Happy New Year everyone! I finally planted my coriander and thai basil plants today that have been sitting waiting in their pots for over a week! I deliberated over where to plant a beautiful double white tree dahlia I was given too, but cannot decide where it will go yet. Because we are still building our house and have yet to put on the front verandah, I find it hard sometimes to get an ‘overall’ idea of what the completed picture will look like. Therefore it is at times difficult to know where to plant things. Maybe I should just let the plant decide..I have read about people planting by this method. You take the plant and walk around the garden with it until you get a strong feeling that it would be happy in a certain position. Has anybody else heard of this? Or possibly even tried it?

• Friday is Radio Show Day

  Date: 2008.11.14 | Category: Horticulture | Response: 3

  Every Friday morning I do a radio show on our local community station. My show is called ‘The Good Earth’ and is about everything and anything horticultural! I guess though, that because my passion is food plants, they often tend to dominate my shows. There is nothing I love more than a good tale of tomato growing.

  Today I talked a fair bit about growing tomatoes. It’s that time of year here. So many wonderful selections, so many wonderful varieties to try. I am actually growing ‘Beefsteak’, ‘KY1′ and ‘Cherry Ripe’ this year. I do love my ‘Beefsteak’ tomatoes, perfect for slicing and putting between two chunks of home made bread with lots of fresh butter, pepper and salt. Oh this is the best kind of comfort food! Yum.

  The most difficult part of my show is actually queuing up the music. I have had some people say that my music selection is ‘all over the shop.’ I know this, but I find it hard to stick to just one genre. I actually like a whole lotta music! So today I played Enya for my sister in law. I played Ali Farke Toure for my hubby and then some Dave Graney and INXS just for me.

  Now getting my head around the ‘studio’ and all those buttons and levers. Still very confusing, even though I have been doing this now for well over a year. Getting the voice levels right and then the music levels, etc, aaaargh!

  Anyway this morning I took a photo of my view from the seat. As you can see I have the computer that helps me with all the music and adds or promos. One of the best things about doing my show is the lovely feedback I get. It’s always nice to know that someone is actually listening out there in ‘radio land’. Maybe they are being horticulturally inspired…now wouldn’t that be grand