Nina and Gino have been growing their own vegetables, herbs and fruit in the tropics for the last 30 years in that time gaining a lot of experience and knowledge about growing food in this climate. I visited their garden in the Cairns suburb of Statford on a beautiful winters day to try and gain some knowledge and insights for all those who would like to do the same.
I was struck first when I entered around the back with a beautiful sea of colour revealing Nina's passion for propagating and selling Desert Roses a truly beautiful flower to grow in the tropics..................................................
Post has been added to New e-book; barry@barrydaly.com.au
Growing Herbs, Fruit & Vegetables in a warm climate.
$10 Book contents Packed full of first hand knowlege, 24 Chapters include;
Chapter 1 Let's Get Started
How to set up and maintain your food garden, to ensure success
Chapter 2 Rotating Your Veggies
Why rotating your veggies works
Chapter 3 Pest Control & Balance
How to minimise the use of pesticides
Chapter 4 Soil Guide & Building Your Soil
Get to know your soil – you'll be glad you did
Chapter 5 Storing Seeds
Improve your success rate with properly store seeds Here's How
Chapter 6 Tastes Better Home Grown
Why is that?
Chapter 7 Green Manure / Beans
Maintain fertility like the ancient Romans
Chapter 8 Snake Beans Dwarf & Climbing
Great Addition to a tropical Garden
Chapter 9 Keeping Chickens
Why they're such an asset to your garden
Chapter 10 Okura
Easy to grow, not to mention the health benefits
Chapter 11 Soya Beans “Eda Mame”
Eaten the Japanese way taste great and good for you
Chapter 12 Paw Paw or Papaya
30 Kg of the nutritious you have to have one in your garden, this is how to grow it
Chapter 13 Capsicum in the tropics
There's nothing like watching capsicum fruit form in your garden pure joy
Chapter 15 Corn
Corn is easy when you know how
Chapter 16 PH Testing
How to measure your soil PH and what is PH
Chapter 17 Growing Bananas
Some great tip on the best backyard bananas
Chapter 18 Dolomite & Garden Lime
Which is best to use why and how
Chapter 19 Egg Plant
Grafting onto wild egg plant for extended growth
Chapter 20 Mignonette Lettuce
Open leaf lettuce like mignonette is the best lettuce for warm climates
Chapter 21 Growing Tomatoes From Garbage
Great tomatoes from garbage, learn how
Chapter 22 Growing Herbs in the tropics
Yes it's possible see what to grow and how
Chapter 23 Some Working Gardens
Some gardens from people who have a lot of experience, Italians, Greeks, and Bougainvillea.
Chapter 24 Take Out The Misery & Bring Back The Muck
A final word
2 comments:
Great to have a fnq gardening blog. As i live in the area i have looked for others but haven't had any luck. we're not fanatical backyard gardeners but the more local info the better. enjoying your items in the paper too.
Great to hear!
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