Autumn Tastetour, Recipe Swap, welcome new plantings

10am
Sunday 26th Feb

Join us for a herbal cuppa in the garden
as we taste, learn about
and enjoy
the gardens edible
herbs, veg, leaves & fruit

Bring a watering bottle
to help care for latest plantings:
lemongrass, parsley, brussel sprouts,
mizuna, cos lettuce, marigolds,
heartsease, basil.

*Earlier/more mature plantings include
Mint (Mojitos anyone? please pick regularly
before it takes over the garden!)
sorrel, sultana grapes, sage, thyme,
rosemary, chillies, kiwifruit, garlic chives,
curry bush, feijoa, choko, pepino, corn,
eggplant, silverbeet, tamarillo, basil,
warrigal greens, alpine strawberry
cape gooseberry, lemon verbena,
*See 'What's in the Garden' section for
pics & info on many of the above

midsummer garden spruce-up, taste tour, gardening bee

Gday foodgarden fans

(& thanks Tyrone for watering the garden this past windy week :)

Love to see y'all
10AM this SUNDAY 12th Feb
at the garden for
a 'taste tour' & gardening bee

...then a cuppa across the road
to welcome new neighbours
"Marmalade & Soul" Cafe
(who've been helping in the garden too)

BYO gloves, garden tools & bag/bucket
for take-home garden goodies

Spring tastetour & garden tidyup 4pm Sunday 2nd Oct

Tastetour, 'springclean' & fresh-picked herb tea
in Tramstop22 foodgarden....
Meet
other friendly foodgarden fans,
learn to identify,
care for,
sustainably harvest & use
the gardens edible plants.
BYO gloves & waterbottle to help weed, plant & mulch
the garden for a yummy summer harvest
Everyone welcome - see you there :)

fab garden song youtube clip - sing along!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FnRQoiRWkM

Google Tiffany Eckhart song 'Zuccini Cake'

Victorian singer/songwriter Tiffany Eckhart jokes that no-one dares
leave their car unlocked in her little town at this time of year
because of the danger of finding it filled with local gardeners
excess zuccinis :)

like most gardeners, Tiffany hates to waste the fruits of her
gardening labour, so grates zucchini into salads & pasta,
roasts big ones stuffed with cooked grains, herbs & vegies
and loves her friends Chocolate Zuccini Cake recipe.
...which inspired her v cute song 'Zuccini Cake'

...so I had to smile today to see 2 large zuccini in the basket
of someones bike parked next to the garden
....and another 2 at the downhill entrance to the garden
hope they're well used by the lucky harvesters!

next taste tour / recipe swap /autumn tidyup 4pm Sat 30th April

bring a thermos of hot water
to make fresh herb tea
from the garden

learn to identify,
care for, harvest and use
the garden's edible plants
for yummy simple dishes
(byo fave simple recipes)

join in the annual
autumn garden tidy-up
and broadbean-planting bonanza!

BYO garden gloves,
trowel, broadbean seeds

lettuces, brocoletti, kale, bokchoi just planted: pls water!

howdy gardenmunchers

I popped in the above seedlings today
- please give them a drink when you pop by
as warmer days are forecast this week.

While tidying up the garden and repairing (sigh!)
the senselessly vandalised end trellis fence
today I discovered lots of mixed bean seeds
in some of the streetside beds so watch for them
to sprout over the coming months.

Happy Easter everyone!