Organic Food Gardens’ Blog

The main focus for our blog is to pass on information and tips about growing food using Permaculture methods, to help vegetable garden owners take responsibility for their garden and their own backyards allowing them to supplement their diet with real whole foods grown by themselves in a fully supported and natural way.

Organic gardening in urban areas

Finger Limes Finger Limes are a native subtropical shrub that produce limes in the shape of a finger. The tree is slow growing in temperate zones. The tree has dense small green spiky leaves. The flowers appear in Spring which are small white and pink and the fruit is...

Permaculture in urban areas

What is Permaculture? Means: permanent agriculture. Permaculture is a way of incorporating the home, garden and surrounding environment into an organic sustainable way of life. Permaculture works with nature to grow multi purpose companion plants. One can ...

Spring into Spring

Peach Flowering Spring: Good time to add compost and organic fertiliser to the soil. Homemade compost is the best followed by organic chicken pellets, blood & bone with a bit of potash. Water it all in with liquid worm juice from the worm farm or seasol liquid...

Fertilisers – Manures – Compost

Autumn is a good time to add organic matter to the soil and garden beds. Complete fertilsers Can be purchased in bags or one can make create compost from kitchen scraps, dry leaves, coffee grounds and garden clippings. Liquid FertiliserWorm farms provide worm...

Growing Potatoes

Potatoes can be grown from spring to autumn. They can be grown straight into ground soil or in planter boxes. Always use good healthy soil which can be a mix of premium potting mix and compost. Seed potatoes can be purchased from garden nurseries or if the potatoes in...

Native Stingless Bees

Native stingless bees, as the name suggests,don’t sting.  Australia has many types of native bees. Native bees can be encouraged into a garden by planting lots of colourful flowering plants. Like the European honey bee which we are all familiar with, bees love and are...