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Edible Gardens by Craig Castree

Locality: Werribee, Victoria

Phone: +61 411 720 283

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25.01.2022 Cheeseday, a quick hello and some updates. https://youtu.be/8W_KyPppUhA

25.01.2022 Neil Willman a guide to making your own cheese

20.01.2022 Spaghetti squash: Spaghetti squash was first discovered in China and was a popular vegetable in the countryside of northern Manchuria, China in the 1920’s. Images of the Manchuria area have been found that depict a woman with her child cutting spirals of Spaghetti squash using a rod on a saw-horse. The flesh was commonly collected from the squashes in this fashion and then hung up and left to dry out in the sunshine. The dried squash provided a nutritious food source that wou...Continue reading

15.01.2022 Plant Profiles eBook

13.01.2022 Getting the most from your fruit trees: When you are out planting new fruit trees, don’t forget to plant lots of bee attracting plants and flowers so that you are getting the pollinators into your garden and around your fruit trees, its one thing to have fruit trees in flower but its another to get them pollinated. This is a Victorian Blue Banded Bee a native bee that loves apple blossom amongst other flowers. As you can see from the photos they are a wonderfully colourful ...Continue reading

13.01.2022 Celery: Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity. Celery has a long fibrous stalk tapering into leaves. Depending on location and cultivar, either its stalks, leaves or hypocotyl (root), are eaten and used in cooking. Celery seed is also used as a spice and its extracts have been used in herbal medicine. Celery was first grown as a winter and early spring vegetable. It was considered a clean...Continue reading

11.01.2022 October: is the month that the Codling moth needs serious attention on your apple and quince and pear trees. This little blighter is a right pain in the butt to a lot of gardeners that grow apples, pears and quince, so lets talk about the things you can do to deter them or minimise the harm they cause. It is particularly important to apply what ever controls you intend to use from now onwards as the month of October is when they start to emerge. Males are smaller than female...Continue reading

10.01.2022 Today’s talk on Radio 88.3 Southern FM is on next Saturday at 4.10pm NOT today.Today’s talk on Radio 88.3 Southern FM is on next Saturday at 4.10pm NOT today.

09.01.2022 Capsicum: Capsicum is the name of the genus of the flowering plants (Solanaceae Family) and their fruit that we know and eat as bell peppers or just peppers. Their name comes from the Greek word kapto which means to bite or to swallow. There are different types of peppers, and we used them as food vegetables, spices, and in medicine. Depending on the place where they are grown and on the type they have different names. Variants of capsicum that are spicy commonly...Continue reading

09.01.2022 Tomatoes: The wild ancestor of the tomato is native to western South America. These wild versions were the size of peas. The Spanish first introduced tomatoes to Europe, where they became used in Spanish and Italian food. In France and northern Europe, the tomato was initially grown as an ornamental plant. It was regarded with suspicion as a food because botanists recognised it as a nightshade, a relative of the poisonous belladonna. This was exacerbated by the interaction of...Continue reading

09.01.2022 Edible Gardens a practical guide

05.01.2022 Curly leaf: After yesterdays post and the amount of questions I received about curly leaf, I have decided to do a post on it to clarify what you need to do to control curly leaf disease. At the outset it is only found on peaches and nectarines. It is a fungal disease called (taphrina deformans). It causes the leaved to curl inwards and deform as botanical name suggests, but it does more damage to the tree than just curling the leaves, the fruit is affected by it as well. T...Continue reading

04.01.2022 Pumpkins: Pumpkins are cultivars of winter squash that is round with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and most often deep yellow to orange in coloration. The thick shell contains the seeds and pulp. The name is most commonly used for cultivars of Cucurbita pepo, but some cultivars are also sometimes called "pumpkin. Archaeologists discovered the oldest domesticated pumpkin seeds in the Oaxaca (pronounced Wa Harka) highlands of Mexico. Pumpkins are believed to have originated in...Continue reading

03.01.2022 Tune into Radio 88.3 Southern FM tomorrow at 4.10pm I am talking on air edible gardens and self sufficiency.Tune into Radio 88.3 Southern FM tomorrow at 4.10pm I am talking on air edible gardens and self sufficiency.