The wild garden diaries | an EASY video guide to soil improvement
This is for everyone whose garden is a sandbox
This year, I will be sharing regular video diary entries from my garden. Little snippets to show you what I’m getting up to. These are only available to members of my Wild Garden club. If you’d like to join the club and access all the videos, grow guides and seasonal recipes I share, click the button below to upgrade your membership to Wild Garden Club member.
This week I am:
Harvesting peppery rocket, which I’m throwing into salads with some thinly sliced apples picked by my Dad, plus red onion, salt, pepper, lemon juice, balsamic vinegar and olive oil - so easy and good!
Cooking a super simple five cheese and fig galette with my mum’s homegrown figs (find the recipe here)
Reading Where do Camels Belong, by Ken Thompson; a fantastic book on the history of invasive species and the rationality and irrationality behind our fear of them
Sowing ornamental tobacco, hollyhocks and calendula for my upcoming cottage garden workshops this March
Thinking about how I’m going to need to become a much faster reader and more interesting person if I plan to keep sharing these weekly rundown lists every Thursday…
I’m not sure how the google search engine algorithms work, but if I tell you that this week has been hot, sweaty and dirty and I’ve made a video all about it, do you think they’ll censor me… or might it be my big break!??
Kim Kardashian might have ‘broken the internet’ with her over-oiled buttocks and made headlines with a sex tape from Mexico, but her audience is not my audience and I know what you’re all into: Soil improvement!!! So follow me, friends, as today I improve the dry, parched soil in a neglected are of my garden.
Truth is, it’s not that hard to turn Perth’s dry, sandy soil into something that is not only passable, but that actually improves year in, year out. And so many nurseries and online brands and ‘garden gurus’ make it way harden than it needs to be in efforts to hock their products. You don’t need a whole heap of special ingredients, you just need consistency, animal manure, organic matter and a good Retic set up. Putting the effort in where it counts will transform your garden and your experience of working in it.
It’s grotty. It smells. It’ll ruin your nails. You’re gonna love it!
Ready? OK. Here we go.
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