Comments on: Abundance in the garden – simply growing more food than you can possibly eat by yourself. https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/ Dive into a vast collection of free permaculture resources to help you get your permaculture life and edible gardens thriving with global permaculture educator & ambassador, Morag Gamble. Thu, 02 Jul 2020 02:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Morag Gamble https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1217 Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:44:13 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1217 Thank you Jean! Great to hear your turmeric is going well. It really is such an amazing plant to have in the garden, and so easy to look after. It's best to wait until the tops have died back – they will be more abundant and mature then, however if you really need some, you could bandicoot down and see if you can find a little bit. Kind regards, Morag

]]> By: Australian Gardening Granny https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1220 Sun, 13 Mar 2016 10:35:33 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1220 To quote Little Home in the Country you are a wealth of information.
I am trying to introduce more perennials into my little allotment. My turmeric is growing gang busters. I planted it last year and had a great crop, I dug that out, but little pieces left in the ground have given me a magnificent plant again this year. Morag it has flowered a few weeks ago and I know I will have a wonderful harvest from this plant but not sure when I should dig it up. Do I need to wait until the leaves are dying off? Best wishes. Jean

]]> By: Morag Gamble https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1223 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:34:24 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1223 Thanks for writing, and thanks for your kind words of encouragement. I love the sound of your emerging food forest! That surely is a different climatic zone….. -35C (brrrrrrrrrr). Today here it's been +32C and rainy – everything is growing so fast.

]]> By: Morag Gamble https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1224 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:29:06 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1224 Thanks for your message. Tassie has a whole lot of wonderful things that I couldn't even begin to imagine growing here. For example, I wish I could grow crispy sweet apples, juicy pears and delicious apricots…mmmm.

]]> By: Morag Gamble https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1225 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:27:02 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1225 Thanks Meg,
Yes, I am also waiting for some cooler weather to come around. I had a great morning down at Northey Street City Farm this morning. I checked out their nursery and many of the plants are there.
Cheers
Morag

]]> By: Morag Gamble https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1226 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:25:06 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1226 Hahaha! Thanks for alerting me to the self-correcting text. I definitely leave the bacon growing to my friendly organic farming neighbour who has a lovely mixed farm of animals…

]]> By: Morag Gamble https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1227 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:22:09 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1227 Thanks!
Yes, the immature beans are edible – but as you say, shelled.

]]> By: Little Home In The Country https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1228 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:20:28 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1228 Your garden is truly lush and abundant – I LOVE it. We live in a cold climate with winter temps down to -35C. Our edible perennial offerings are much less numerous here but we can (thankfully) grow a great deal of fruit (berries and fruit trees). Over the last few years we've been converting a large section of land (previously grass) into an edible perennial food forest. Year one was soil building, year 2 was planting baby trees (and guilds around them) and this year (Year 3) will be about filling in some areas. We have grown annual veg in the open spaces while we wait for the food forest to mature. I hear year 4 is the year that a food forest garden pops. Can't wait!

Really enjoying your blog – you are a wealth of information and inspiration 🙂

]]> By: narf7 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1230 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:20:28 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1230 This is a most inspiring blog post. Cheers for sharing your gorgeous garden and this quality info with us all. I live in Tasmania so some of these plants wouldn't be a real option for me but most of what you have talked about here would grow. Thank you again for sharing with us all

]]> By: Adrienne Wimbush https://ourpermaculturelife.com/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1231 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:20:28 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/03/10/abundance-in-the-garden-simply-growing-more-food-than-you-can-possibly-eat-by-yourself/#comment-1231 You grow bacon in your garden? (Lol I know you meant yacon!)When is yacon harvestable?)

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