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Saturday, 29th June – A Glut of Madagascar Beans?

10/06/2024 By

Saturday June 29th at 9.00am

A Glut of Madagascar Beans?

You are already growing all those weird and wonderful vegetables that grow so prolifically in the sub-tropics, but you find you don’t know what to do with them other than using them as ‘chop n drop’ mulch, feeding the chooks and worms or making fantastic compost. You don’t eat them, because you don’t know how to prepare them, or what they taste like or if you will even like them if you do go to all that trouble to cook them.

If this is you, then come along to our second workshop, where Linda will demonstrate how to harvest, prepare and cook a three-course meal using one of these vegetables – the humble Madagascar Bean – as the main ingredient.

Best of all, you will get to taste-test at the end.

Recipes will include –

Entrée:-

Sundried Tomato Dip

Main:-

Veggie Patties

Dessert:-

Chocolate Jaffa Cake

COST-     $25.00 members

$35.00 non-members

WORKSHOP CAPPED AT 35 ATTENDEES.

To book for this workshop click here

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Saturday June 8th, Composting and Worm Farms Explained

03/06/2024 By

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Join us for an outdoor workshop with Dave Clark discussing everything you need to know for successful Compost making and Worm Farming.

You will learn How To Make Them (turning/not turning compost in mounds/bins; what’s required for a Worm Farm); How To Use the products; Fun things you can add and most importantly, How To Fix any Problems.

Dave, a retired Permaculture teacher and past-President of Permacuture Noosa, has been making Compost and raising Worms in many different locations for decades. Now he recycles hundreds of litres of food waste and coffee grounds from local businesses each week on his few acres in Doonan.

We now understand that the best way to help our Plants is to help our Soil … and Compost/Vermicompost (NOT fertilisers) is the very best way to do this because it mimics Nature and what our Plants prefer.

COST- $25.00 members

$35.00 non-members

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Watercress (Nasturtium officinale)

03/10/2022 By

Rapidly growing semi-aquatic herb with edible leaves. 

Other Names: Yellowcress

Origin: World-wide

Size: 0.2m high, 0.5m spread

Growing conditions: partial shade

Propagation: root division

Growing tips: Grows rapidly in very wet or partially submerged conditions.

Use: Edible leaves can be eaten raw or cooked.

Availability in shop: all year

Filed Under: Know Your Plants, Nursery Plants Tagged With: aquatic plant, Edible Greens, Water cress

Water Chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis)

03/10/2022 By

Aquatic sedge with edible corms that grows in mud. 

Other Names: Chinese chestnut

Origin: Asia, Africa, Oceania

Size: 1m high, 1m spread

Growing conditions: full sun

Propagation: Replant corms after harvest

Growing tips: Plant 2-3 corms in a bathtub in spring. Keep water levels partially up the stems. Harvest when sedge dies back in autumn.

Use: Corms are mild, very crunchy and can be eaten raw or cooked.

Availability in shop: During summer growing season. Please ask at shop, as we sell bare-rooted corms only.

Filed Under: Know Your Plants, Nursery Plants Tagged With: aquatic plant, root vegetable, Water Chestnut

Musk Bush (Tetradenia riparia)

03/10/2022 By

Perennial shrub with profuse white flowers in spring. Shrub is partially deciduous.

Other Names: Misty Plume Bush, Ibozane

Origin: South Africa

Size: 2m high, 1m spread

Growing conditions: full sun to partial shade

Propagation: semi-hardwood cuttings

Growing tips: Prune back after flowering.

Use: Ornamental bush that attracts beneficial insects. Leaves have medicinal properties.

Availability in shop: all year, best in summer

Filed Under: Know Your Plants, Nursery Plants Tagged With: insect attracting, Musk Bush, ornamental

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