Globe artichokes (Cynara scolymus L.) Article and Photos: Ange McNeilly (Canberra Organic – Winter 2019) I love to grow globe artichokes for their majestic sculptural form, large grey serrated leaves …
Blog Crop Notes RecipeGlobe Artichokes
Blog Crop Notes Magazine Vol29-2021Winter herbs
Article: Rebecca Travers (Canberra Organic – Winter 2021) I recently read in The Australian Women’s Weekly: the cook’s garden [p108] that there are two schools of thought about winter. There …
Blog Crop Notes MagazineThe Elegance of Eggplant
Article and Photos: Rebecca Travers (Canberra Organic – Autumn 2021) As part of my ‘small-scale’ courtyard gardening journey, I was keen to find out which of my favourite vegetables would …
Blog Crop Notes RecipeMaking the most of the zucchini glut
Zucchini Cake Story and photos: Janet Popovic (Canberra Organic – Autumn 2019) Janet Popovic shared her well-loved recipe for zucchini cake “as the extremely hot weather has boosted the harvest …
Blog Crop NotesThe history and virtues of rhubarb
Story: Elizabeth Dangerfield (Canberra Organic – Autumn 2020) All things old are new again. All things once derided are now acclaimed. Although I am still waiting for tripe to make …
Blog Brassica Cabbage Crop NotesCool Cabbages
Story & Photos: Heather Campbell (Canberra Organic – Summer 2018) Last summer I had a disastrous crop of tomatoes and lost most of them to root rot despite diligently removing …
Blog Crop Notes RecipeCalendula officinalis
Article: Elizabeth Dangerfield (Canberra Organic – Summer 2020)Photo: Harish Kumar The pot marigold, or Calendula officinalis, lights up our winters with its bright yellow and orange daisy flowers when everything …
Blog Crop Notes RecipeIn Praise of Silverbeet
Story: Gerry Jacobson (Canberra Organic – Spring 2018) “Eat yer vegies!” How the ancestral voices echo. Most of us call it ‘spinach’ but it’s really ‘silverbeet’, and it’s also known …
Blog Crop NotesGrowing Edamame (Soybeans)
Story and Photos: Tammy Hamers (Canberra Organic – Spring 2019) In a possible first for gardeners in the local area, I recently managed to raise edamame (soybeans) to their full …
Blog Crop Notes RecipeOf Leeks and Love
By: Gerry Jacobson (Canberra Organic – Spring 2019) in the gardenthis sunny windyspring morningplanting the leeksfor autumn soups Fifteen years of successive leek harvests at the Cotter garden. Sometimes two …