Tans' Garden

27/02/2019

It's time for change! This page will be deleted tomorrow. Check out the new page Living Abundance for what I'm up to now. Thank you!

https://www.facebook.com/livingabundance.com.au/

Immersive hands on Permaculture Education
Small, intimate, groups. Fun, tailored education.
Onsite in Julimar or at a venue of your choosing.

05/09/2017

The health of your plants is all about the health of your soils. This looks like a great workshop. Yes it's a bit of a drive to Green Life Soil Co but very enjoyable and you get to browse through the great gardening products after the workshop!

Soil Improvement through Permaculture – Soil Basics Workshops Learn how to you can use a permaculture approach to find out what soil type you have and how to improve it. This workshop takes its structure from what is covered on soil in a 72 hour Permaculture Design Certificate course, without having...

10/08/2017

Join me at the Green Life Soil Company. Two presentations, September and December.

They help to create a healthy garden and can be thought of as preventative health measures. What’s more they create balance and harmony, whilst contributing to diversity. 

02/08/2017

Just found about 3000 acres and the collaborative work they are doing in Yarra, Victoria to normalise food growing in the city.

Urban residents are increasingly keen to farm verges, parks, rooftops and backyards, but planning rules sometimes stand in the way.

01/08/2017

An interesting read from an organisation with lots of online resources.

Glyphosate's use, potential effects on human health (kidney disease, cancer, hormones) and development of superweeds. Whether different countries will ban it

12/07/2017

Visiting a community garden I helped establish in Broome, Western Australia. Great to see it going strong four years late 😊

07/07/2017

Make the most of this great initiative. I planted natives on the verge during winter last year and haven't had to water them since!

We finally have our verge suitable native plant vouchers available for those people in Perth WA who are actively working on their verge projects this winter... contact us (PM this page to contact admin) with the details and we shall see how we can help.

The vouchers allow purchase of free endemic native and other verge suitable native tube stock from APACE WA & Australian Native Nursery for your areas soil type and conditions to ensure greater survival (plants suited to yoir sandy soils)....they can provide you specialist advice should you need..

These tubestock vouchers are made possible by the generous grant funding from by Planet Ark Environmental Foundation and Torrens University Australia Alumini Grant 2016.

To get involved and share your project ideas and questions for the group to help you with please join the group set up for this initiative at Community Verge Rejuvenation Projects (Australia/New Zealand)

20/06/2017

If you are in the Vincent area come along to a free workshop this Sunday on growing from seed.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1299829173399073/?ti=cl

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

12/06/2017

Brighton Community Garden Winter Vegetable Growing Workshop Sunday 25th June, 2017, 1-00pm to 4.00pm RSVP Required. Please see attached flyer for details don't RSVP here.

07/06/2017

According to a new study, turning lawn into a vegetable garden can reduce greenhouse gas emissions

08/05/2017

https://www.organicgardener.com.au/blogs/planting-seed-0

Sowing seeds into seed trays and pots, pricking them out and then eventually planting them out seems like three times the work of simply sowing seeds directly into the garden – so why bother? Some seeds require warm temperatures to germinate successfully and, if you grow them in containers, you can…

01/05/2017

Saturday was a beautiful afternoon to be outside! I had a lovely time presenting a workshop at the North Perth Community Garden on Companion Planting and Crop Rotation. This is the diagram we used to plan what to plant where.

Here is a few links to find out more information. Happy gardening!

Companion Planting
https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/companion-planting/companion-planting-table/
https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/companion-planting/
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s3683043.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s4197010.htm Cabbage moth
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1872509.htm

Crop Rotation
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/vegieguide/crop_rotation.htm