Gardening Archives - Northey Street City Farm

June 2020 E-News

NSCF — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 03:55:59 +0000

In this June edition of E-News you can catch up on whats reopening at the Farm as Covid-19 restrictions continue to ease and check out a couple of new developments. Read HERE. Northey Street City Farm publishes a free electronic newsletter every month. To subscribe to our monthly free e-newsletter CLICK […]

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Edible Flowers

Ronni Martin — Wed, 27 May 2020 06:19:43 +0000

By Ronni Martin. NSCF Education & Support Team Manager Bring colour and interest to your garden and plate by growing edible flowers. Edible flowers can create a colourful show in your front garden. Or they can be distributed through your vegetable beds or around fruit trees where their other uses […]

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Homemade seed raising mix

Ronni Martin — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:58:05 +0000

By Michael Wardle, NSCF Adult Education Co-ordinator One of the things when having your own garden is the ability to keep it going through sowing your own seeds. While some seeds benefit from a direct sow into the garden bed, many survive and thrive when they are planted in seedling […]

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Summer Earth Kids 2019 – 3 Day Program

Promotions and Admin — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 05:13:18 +0000

Earth Kids is about supporting children to become ‘nature smart’ – to have the knowledge, understandings and skills to engage in creating a more sustainable world – in a fun and interactive way. This is an experiential week of outdoor discovery in which kids will learn about the animals and […]

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Forest Gardens

Ronni Martin — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 06:32:49 +0000

The Tree Care Group of volunteers have been renewing the plantings in the various orchards and forest gardens around our site over the last couple of years. These gardens are along the Northey Street boundary and to the west of the allotment garden area. So, what is a forest garden […]

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Bushfoods for permaculture gardens and farms in the sub-tropics

Ronni Martin — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 02:28:10 +0000

Adding local bush foods to your garden can add new flavours to your diet while sustaining wildlife as well. There is a native plant to fill almost every purpose from food to fiber to timber, and they come in all growth forms from vines to giant trees. The lists below […]

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Gardening with guilds

Ronni Martin — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 08:59:17 +0000

By Lydia Blocksidge, City Farm Nursery Co-ordinator Have you heard the term garden guild or guilding before? If you have, it’s probably been used in the context of agro-forestry and forest gardening, as this is where the concept is most commonly applied. Guilding is a Permaculture technique that recognizes the […]

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Leafy Greens alternatives to lettuce during hot summer months

Mel Marx — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:08:51 +0000

Summer means Brisbane gardeners have to be creative with their salads. Lettuce, english spinach and other greens are hard to grow. Take a look at leafy greens. Darker leafed lettuces, and open hearted ‘cut and come again’ varieties will last a lot longer than cos or iceberg types. We can […]

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Sub-Tropical Greens

Mel Marx — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:06:06 +0000

During the cool season, Brisbane gardeners can grow silverbeet, kale and cabbages. However, there are a myriad of subtropical leafy greens to turn to when the weather is too hot for these winter annuals. Surinam spinach is a crunchy and tangy, drought hardy plant. It is very ornamental, with clusters […]

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Worm Farm to keep composting worms

Mel Marx — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:03:02 +0000

To keep your worms happy, you can buy a commercial worm farm, or make one from recycled materials. Worm farm container The container needs to be pest proof. It needs to have drainage and air holes. Bedding material can be shredded paper and cardboard (not coloured or […]

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Wicking Beds and water conservation – make your own wicking garden bed

Mel Marx — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:00:18 +0000

Wicking beds can be purchased, or made from recycled materials. The design of the wicking garden bed conserves water. Water is poured down the pipe into a reservoir. The water then slowly percolates upwards via the soil to the root zone of the plants, called wicking. Plants are watered from […]

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No-Dig Garden – also called a layer garden

Mel Marx — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:56:52 +0000

Sometimes called a lasagna garden or a layer garden, a no-dig garden is a quick way to build soil and start a vegetable patch. Digging is a lot harder and instead of using heavy garden tools, layer. Work with nature to disturb the soil as little as possible. No-dig is […]

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Container Gardening

Mel Marx — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:49:19 +0000

Practically anything can be made into a planter, or container garden. Important factors to consider when choosing a container, or pot, are correct size, adequate drainage and good quality organic potting mix. A good quality potting mix is essential for the health of plants in pots. Potting mixes are […]

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