This is a list of all my clips on YouTube from most recent. The numbers are the length of the video. Planting a Passionfruit vine in hard soil 4:15 Just weeding and planting 1:38 Australian Birdsong in the garden rooms 5:10 Perennial Basil brings the Bees 0:15 Plunkett Conservation Park-a 360 view 0:31 Laughing Kookaburras… Continue reading Jane Grows Garden Rooms on YouTube
Top Ten Tips for Biodiversity in your Backyard – Tip One: Just add water
Hello and welcome to my garden. Today I start a series on biodiversity in your backyard. With ten tips you can improve the biodiversity in your backyard which will get nature to help you with the work of maintenance and pest control. Let’s see tip number one! The first thing you can do to bring… Continue reading Top Ten Tips for Biodiversity in your Backyard – Tip One: Just add water
Garden Friends and Foes: identifying Commelina species
(This blog post is a transcript of a YouTube clip on the janegrowsgardenrooms channel. To watch Click here) Hello, and welcome to my garden. Today I’m down in the gully. I am sitting beside a big patch of what’s commonly known as dayflowers, because their flowers rarely last more than a day, if that. Now… Continue reading Garden Friends and Foes: identifying Commelina species
Garden Friends: Buzz Pollinators
The following is a transcript of my vlog posted on YouTube. If you would like to watch the video Click here Hello, and welcome to my garden. Today I’m sitting here with the Blue Tongue plant. It’s called the Blue Tongue Plant because these berries which are developing here, if you eat too many of… Continue reading Garden Friends: Buzz Pollinators
Garden to Kitchen: Garden Salad including Australian Natives
Native Australian Ingredients – Bush Tucker There’s something magical about harvesting for a meal you’re about to eat. I love the process of wandering through the garden spying what I can harvest and imagining how fresh and tasty the resulting meal will be. Last night I did this for a delicious garden salad to accompany… Continue reading Garden to Kitchen: Garden Salad including Australian Natives
Garden to Kitchen: nutritious Nasturtiums
My introduction to Nasturtiums was a sensory delight. My mother led me to the glorious bright flowers and showed me how to suck out the sweet nectar. It’s a powerful memory and one that I hope that I have passed on to my children. I introduced them to these cheerful blooms the same way. I… Continue reading Garden to Kitchen: nutritious Nasturtiums
Garden to Kitchen: Liquid Lemon Gold
I love to use produce from my garden and Lemon Myrtle is one of my favourite trees. I don’t need any more reasons to justify its existence in a food forest but recently I read about a new use and I just have to try it! Here’s some of the ways that I already use… Continue reading Garden to Kitchen: Liquid Lemon Gold
Garden Days: Growing our Maths Skills
Recently we started to build the greenhouse that has been sitting in a box for literally months. It provided a plethora of opportunities for my four year old to practice Maths and fine motor skills. Afterwards, I couldn’t help feeling that it was a rich home learning opportunity that I could have easily missed. There… Continue reading Garden Days: Growing our Maths Skills
Garden Days: edible flower garden
Last year I grew an edible flower garden and my daughter started harvesting and making salads for the family dinner table and, even more surprisingly, my son ate them! As a general rule, my daughter only eats raw fruit and vegetables and my son mostly prefers cooked vegetables. They both love edible flowers and were… Continue reading Garden Days: edible flower garden
Garden Days: Wiggly Woo Farm
I was stunned by my children’s excitement when I told them we were going to get the worm farm going again. They are exposed to garden activities on a regular basis so they don’t always appreciate them, but the worm farm… whoa! Stop the press! This is a great idea! Worm farms truly give bang… Continue reading Garden Days: Wiggly Woo Farm
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