FGG Newsletter October 2025

Food Garden Group newsletter - October 2025

 ☘️ We like to grow what we eat ☘️

                                                                                                                                                                   

In this newsletter - What to do in your food garden in October, this month's Northern and Southern food garden visits, last month's visits in words and pictures, the Botanical Gardens tomato sale, food garden jargon explained, biosecurity message about Potato Mop Top Virus, and more.

Visit Ravenswood Adrienne 2025

A beautiful spring day set the scene for an enjoyable start to the northern garden visits for the 25/26 season. Adrienne's garden was full of colour from many flowers, cherry blossom and her own creations from mosaic and glass art work pieces.

Visit Orielton Cliff 2025

FGG members were excited to get the 2025-26 garden visits underway, with Cliff kindly offering up his garden at Orielton as the season opener.

FGG Newsletter September 2025

 

🍊  Food Garden Group newsletter - September 2025  🍊

 We like to grow what we eat 

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It's the start of spring (well, on paper) and the start of the food-garden-visit season!!! In this newsletter you will find the food garden visits planned for September and coming months, what's new on the Food Garden Group blog, what to do in your food garden this month, what FGG blog articles might be useful in September, and more.

FGG Newsletter August 2025

          🫛 Food Garden Group newsletter - August 2025  🫛

 We like to grow what we eat 

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Welcome to the 2025-2026 Food Garden Group season! 

Winter is a busy period for many food gardeners because they use the dormancy period of fruit trees, berries and perennial food plants like asparagus to prune, fertilise and move plants, making changes for the season ahead. 

For those who have had a well-deserved rest from food gardening, this August newsletter is a wake-up call - Spring is not far off. It is time to remove all the pesky weeds that are slowly taking over your food garden and get pruning, fertilising, sowing and planting! But no need to panic! Enjoy your time in the garden.

flowering broad beans

Visit Fern Tree Maria and Michel 2025

This beautiful garden at Fern Tree on the lower slopes of Kunanyi provided a stunning setting for the final Southern Food Garden Group visit of the season. With extensive protected areas for food crops nestled among towering eucalypts and other native plants, we had a chance for a close up look at how two keen gardeners have managed the challenges of a steep site, cold climate, and extensive wildlife pressure to create a thriving and productive space for growing food. 

 

Visit Ravenswood Nicki 2025

Growing rosehips, pruning a split apple tree branch, future garden plans including a Lazutin style beehive and massive yields from tomato plants were amongst the conversation at the final northern garden visit for this season. Despite only being 7 months old, Nicki's garden in Ravenswood was filled with productive vegetable beds and a mix of new and established fruit trees.