Up On The Rooftop

12/05/2026

30/04/2026

Another ginger patch ready for harvesting in my small space city courtyard.
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Ginger harvested young is bright, mild, and sweet, with a tender, juicy, and crisp texture that is far less fibrous than mature ginger. Unlike the hot, pungent taste of older ginger, it has a subtle peppery flavor and a hint of floral sweetness, making it ideal to eat raw in salads, pickled, or in cocktails.🫚

🫚 So delicious and easy to grow if you have a sunny, protected corner pop a grow bag in it and let the rhizomes take off, sending beautiful tropical looking leaves up to add interest to the eye.

🫚 For Root Pouch grow bags jump onto the website via the link and do check out the blog on the website or at the link in my Bio for more growing information!

27/03/2026

During the week I went shopping at my local store in my backyard 😉 .
Produce was freshly picked, flavours extraordinary and unadulterated, textures smooth and skins crisp!
Truth be known, "shopping" down its "aisles" is my greatest joy. Knowing where my food comes from, that it's been grown by hand, that it's seasonal and nutrient dense full of all the vitamins and minerals nature intended makes my heart sing and my tummy full!
Do you grow some of your own food or do you rely solely on the big retailers for all your fresh food?
Shop local and the garden is the best place of all.
🎃🥒🌽🥕🍎🧅🧄

22/03/2026

Can't stop collecting Dahlias!

Once you own them you can't help the addiction to their beauty!

This is the last few days of these and other lovelies in this position as I'm going to lift them prematurely to make way for a reno.

I'll harvest what I can of these blooms and lift the bulbs and stalks carefully into Root Pouch garden beds for them to develop their sugar stores for the winter. Hopefully they will survive and will find new homes later in the year.

Note to self... Label the bulbs!!!

23/12/2025

26/09/2025

Did you miss the encore airing of our Gardening Australia Episode "Balcony Bounty" Series 31, Episode 32 from 2020 tonight?
👉Watch it again on repeat on Sunday at 1.30pm ABC.
A whole day of filming was distilled down to a short few minutes. and I discussed so many other topics such as water saving and management, portability, encouraging biodiversity on the Balcony, my native bee hives, share wasting in an apartment block, where to find elements for the compost bins and worm farms and SO SO SO many more topics 🗣️🗣️
It was a super day and The Reverse Gardener was clearly the star with his beautiful red hair resplendent in the sunshine.
You can also view it on the YouTube channel and website.

19/01/2025

My Permaculture journey began several years ago with a residential course run by Milkwood. Now available as an online course you can fit it into your busy days...and perhaps after completion you'll come to some life-changing to slow down...

14/01/2025

Grow vertically and save space!