Hi Claraflo :wave: nice to meet you. Sounds like your balcony is being plenty productive.

This is great crystal! I came online today to find just such a recipe so thank you. What size casserole dish do you tend to use? I’ve got a medium oval shaped one that i hope will work ok, so will see how it goes.

Be safe everyone, and thanks for the oil of cloves tip. Just got back from a holiday to find mold on the wall from all the rainy weather, so will give it a swipe and see how it goes.

Hi Crystal and welcome :wave:

you are one seriously busy woman! I look forward to hearing about your adventures 🙂

I’m interested in doing this but it will have to be February for me as i’ll be on a holiday in January (my last extravagance which i paid for before being retrenched at the start of December) It will be more of a need to not spend than a not wanting to spend at that point, but it would be helpful and motivating if there were others doing the same…[Read more]

Wow what a beautiful place, Best og luck with your self sufficient adventures :tup:

Wow that is a LOT of honey

Very cool!

I came across it a while ago, but it seems they have spruced it up a fair bit since my last visit and i’ll have to look around a bit more. Thanks for sharing

This looks awesome!!!! Will have to try it. Thanks for sharing 🙂

thanks for all the replies everyone.

The oranges look to be a fairly simple solution and i like oranges so this will make the peel useful too, if that fails i’ll work my way through the suggestions and let you all know how it goes. :hug:

Wow! this is fascinating, a bit gross but fascinating i’ll look forward to seeing how it works for you.

I’m finding Harvest: A Complete Australian Guide to the Edible Garden by Meredith Kirton relly helpful as it covers everything from soil, climate, raising seedlings, pests diseases and information on a whole range of fruits and vegetables.

Though there are some really interesting books in this thread that i’ll have to check out too.

I got rid of a big debt earlier this year and am starting to budget now and trying to put as much money away in a interest earning savings account as i can, as i would love to buy somewhere to live where i can do more siimple living projects without having to get the landlords permission(though my landlord had let me and my housemate dig up a good…[Read more]

Just saw this today and it looks like a great idea! I have about 2 shelves worth of cookbooks at home and i do use some of them so i don’t feel to bad about them but this might motivate me to use the ones i tend to ignore more often than not. It is a bit hard as i’m only cooking for myself so if it’s not able to be frozen it may get thrown out if…[Read more]

Your blueberries look great congratulations :tup:

I planted a lttle blueberry seedling earlier this year and it’s had some flowers and the leaves look good so we’ll see how it goes but i’m not expecting much considering it’s just a baby still. Will have to keep in mind that they like acidic conditions as I didn’t know that, so thanks.

Hi geminisc,

I don’t know if these will match your type of watering can, but i don’t suppose it would hurt to have a look:

http://www.gardenware.com.au/commerce/search/index.php3?merchant_id=2628&custom_store_category=33&by_category=1

http://www.hardwarefast.com.au/component/cubecart/?_a=viewProd&productId=6448

Have never used either of…[Read more]

This was great thanks for sharing 🙂

I’ve been eating a spanish style vegie stew this week which has been really nice,

you’ll need:
3 green capsicums chopped
2 medium spanish onions sliced thinly
3 zuchinni chopped
5 large tomatoes chopped or 2x can chopped tomatoes
3 cloves garlic chopped
2 tablespoons parsley chopped
olive oil
2 hard boiled eggs chopped
salt and pepper

Heat oil…[Read more]

I’d heard this was coming back but not when, i missed the first episode but will hopefully watch it tonight on my laptop before they take it down and put episode 2 up. I only watch a few shows so don’t have TV and have to watch them via the web, but thans for letting us know about the show 🙂