This is my garden

I live on a 1/4 acre block in Canberra, Australia.
Canberra is a good place for gardens, especially food gardens. While we can't grow tropical stuff like avocados and mangoes, we have the kind of climate that is good for lots of fruit (apples, stone fruit, passionfruit etc), as well as lots of different herbs and vegies, and my favourite, berries!

My delicious organic Tasmanian garlic,

This is the food I currently have growing in my garden:

• Tasmanian garlic (grown from bulbs a friend gave to me when I visited in 2012)
• Asparagus
• Herbs: chives, basil, dill, coriander, marjoram, parsley, comfrey, camomile
• Pears
• Apples
• Apricots
• Raspberries
• Blueberries
• Boysenberries (although I've been trying unsuccessfully for a while to get rid of these!)
• Strawberries
• Passionfruit 
• Vegies: tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber, lettuce, leek, spinach, kale, peas
• Almonds
• Oranges
• Rhubarb
• Cherries
• Pomegranate 
• Bay tree

Soon, I'm planning on planting more veg: corn, capsicum, chilli, celery (and all the other 'c' words!).

I'll tell you about it!

Bloggin' in the garden...

I've missed blogging. I blogged for a few years on a completely different subject; but that blog reached its natural end. But gosh I love to write. And I love to blog. So I thought I'd blog about my garden.

I'm a sometimes gardener. I get very motivated and do lots of stuff, and then tend to just let things run a little wild. Or lose interest (that's generally in winter. I don't like winter). But, when I do garden, I get some great results. I don't know what it is. I'm the child of keen gardeners (my dad's a trained horticulturist, my mum's just keen), so I grew up with a nice garden (and many trips to the nursery), but perhaps most of it is just luck.

What I'm really keen about though is growing food. I've tried flower bulbs and natives, but I definitely get the most satisfaction from growing something that can be eaten. It doesn't hurt that I like food and cooking too!

So, I hope you'll join me on my adventures in gardening! Welcome!