Visit Sandford Aimee and Greg 2025

The October visit for the Southern Food Garden Group was an inspiring reminder of how much can be achieved in a short time when two experienced gardeners put their hearts and minds (and backs!) to it.  Aimee and Greg moved to their Sandford property a little over two years ago and have transformed it into a beautiful and productive garden that, as one visitor said, "has everything!"  

 

Visit Mount Nelson Ngaire and Larry 2022

Visit Mount Nelson Ngaire and Larry 2022.

On a lovely Sunday afternoon in September we were all very happy to visit Mount Nelson for the first Food Garden visit of the year. 

In My Garden - Dirk and Pauline - May 2022

 In My Garden - Dirk and Pauline - May 2022

In My Garden - Cathy - April 2022

 In My Garden - Cathy - April 2022

Like most of us in southern Tasmania, Cathy has had an interesting garden season with a very wet spring and an extremely dry summer. Join her for a tour around her garden to see how things went.

Visit Sandy Bay Wendy 2021

 Visit Sandy Bay, Wendy 26 September 2021

How lucky we felt to live in Tasmania where there is no lockdown, when the Food Garden Group visit season for spring 2021 kicked off with a wonderful visit to Wendy's garden in Sandy Bay. 

Visit Mornington - Ailsa - December 2020

 Visit to Ailsa, Mornington, December 2020

These garden visits keep surprising and delighting us. On Sunday 6 December 2020, we gathered (in 2 groups of 20 as per Covid regulations) at Ailsa's place in Mornington. We got a few brief sprinkles of rain, but nobody was deterred by them from having a great time, and the sun shone most of the time.

Recipe Orange and Rosemary Cleaner

 Orange and Rosemary Cleaner (with many thanks to Elizabeth for sharing her recipe)

Method:

Fill a glass jar with orange/lemon/lime peels, rosemary twigs

Cover with white vinegar, seal the jar and leave for 2 weeks + to infuse stir and push down occasionally

Add quarter cup of solution to a spray bottle and top up with water.

Don’t use on marble or glass. – Fine on our diamond gloss laminex.

Recipe Kumquats preserved

 Preserved Kumquats (with many thanks to Karen for sharing her recipe)

Serve preserved kumquats alongside coffee or desserts, or in the bottom of a glass of champagne. They are also amazing dipped in melted chocolate.

In My Garden - Denby - August 2020

 In My Garden - Denby - August 2020

Denby's garden in Lindisfarne experiences very heavy frosts and we’ve certainly had some this year!  

Despite this, Denby has a lot of food growing in her garden at the moment, and much more to come. Winter is also the time for big decisions, changing beds, building new ones and so on. Join Denby on a walk through her August garden.

In My Garden - Cathy July 2020

In My Garden - Cathy - July 2020

Mid-winter can be a busy time in the garden, even though everything seems to have slowed right down. There is pruning to be taken care of, the planting of bare-rooted fruit trees, preparing and changing over of beds, re-potting and for those of us lucky enough to have a glass house, there might even still be some fruit to harvest! Cathy and Ward’s garden in North Hobart has all those things going on, and then some! Cathy takes us on a ramble through her winter garden.

Visit Jill and Ian Sandy Bay 16Feb20

On Sunday 16 February the Food Garden Group visited Ian and Jill's garden at Sandy Bay.

When we arrived on Jill and Ian's deck overlooking the river there was a Southern wind blowing, and it made us think that we could be in for a cool day, but then we descended into Jill and Ian's main garden, and immediately we were in a delightful warm sunny sheltered green garden, an ideal environment for some very interesting plants.