http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:37:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The last couple of weeks have been a frenzy of activity - moving out of our Farrer rental property and into our new house in Waramanga. Projects completed this week: Built a wicking bed from the old bookcase I was using in Farrer to grow some radishes and cabbages. See Scarecrow's ... http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra/?p=94 I currently have six little cabbages growing from when I planted them last May. They all look like pretty healthy, happy cabbages (I presume anyway since I have never grown them before). But I got a preview of the Cabbage Leaf Butterfly already; once a day for the last ... http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra/?p=91 The backyard in the new house is going to need a lot of work to make it a productive vegetable garden. [caption id="attachment_67" align="alignright" width="300" caption="This is how the back of the house looks before we move in..."][/caption] The glass doors on the right hand side were put there by the previous ... http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra/?p=66 Some of my beans had roots hanging out of the bottom of their toilet roll so I potted them up since we're not moving for another week, and even when we do I won't be able to plant them on the first day! I'm trying to recycle, so for pots ... http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra/?p=62 We had over 10mm of rain already today! I got home and it was all dark and wet (so was my cat).... and what do you know, a whole bunch of seeds have suddenly popped up out of nowhere! Yesterday there was not a seedling to be seen. I guess ... http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra/?p=44 This weekend I did a bit more research into starting plants from seeds. I really want to do it that way for two reasons: I think it will be fun to grow heirloom veggies that you can't buy in the shops, for a bit of added motivation I want to save seeds ... http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra/?p=35 I have a bit of work to do learning how to germinate seeds - my attempts have been a real flop. If I try germinating them indoors they grow almost horizontally trying to find some sunshine because the kitchen window is on the south side of the house. If I ... http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra/?p=28 In our current rental house we have only a tiny paved courtyard - not so useful for learning how to grow vegetables. So to solve this I found two pallets, drilled some holes in the back of an unused bookcase and then put that on the pallet. It's been working quite ... http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra/?p=16 Hello! My husband (Michael) and I (Petra) recently moved to Canberra and we have just bought our first home here. I plan to set up a productive garden and decorate our new home - without spending much money! Hopefully along the way I'll learn a thing or two that I ... http://michaelsmirnoff.com/newhomeincanberra/?p=1