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Growing & Propagating Rosemary From Cuttings – Here’s How?

There’s nothing quite like cooking with veggies and herbs that are fresh from your garden; rosemaries are no exception. Rosemary is useful for cooking as the main ingredient or by serving as a garnish. With its diverse uses, you shouldn’t …

Herbs are a must-have in your garden. If you’re a fan of the whole farm to table’ system, then you can have as many fresh herbs as possible growing in your garden. Most importantly, fresh Basil will come in handy …

Quite many readers of this article are familiar with the multipurpose use of mint. They are commonly used in products to help freshen our breaths, such as toothpaste, mouthwashes, and breath mints. Aside from these uses, they have other spectacular …

Our Asparagus have been in for around 7 – 8 years now. Despite being relocated once, they’ve gone on to provide us with a prolific supply of Asparagus for the past 3-4 seasons and have most definitely been one of …

This pile might not look like much, but I have big plans for it.

With the size of our garden, it gets a bit hard to plant out every space and avoid leaving gaps for the weeds to flourish.

I HATE weeding.

I love the end result when it’s done, but it’s not my favourite job at all.

So the more I can stifle the weeds, the better. We don’t use any sprays what so ever so it comes down to competition and natural means of weed control in our garden, and sufficient ground cover seems like a good strategy to leave little room for weeds to make themselves at home.

Ground cover plants are easy to find, but given that we’re trying to make our garden as edible as possible I wanted to plant some kind of cropping plant as ground cover.

I’ve done the herb thing and it wasn’t really a winner for me. We planted various creeping Thymes and Oregano but they tend to get quite scruffy after a while and there’s only so much Thyme you can use in your cooking. They also didn’t crowd out the weeds as well as I hoped. The really determined ones just grew up in between the edibles and it wasn’t easy weeding once that happened.

So most of it came out along the way and the earth was left bare once again.

Propagating Boysenberry Plants

Boysenberry plants are a wonderful addition to any edible garden.

When allowed to thrive, they produce loads of fresh, sweet, fat fruit which is delicious whether it’s eaten straight off the bush, still warm from the Summer sun, preserved as Boysenberry jam or frozen and used through the year for fruit pies and smoothies.

As a kid, I remember a friend whose parents had the most prolific Boysenberry bush. We used to sit in the backyard after school and eat as many as we could until all the ripe berries were gone. I always hoped another lot would ripen before I was invited to go around again.

It’s no surprise then that when we first started our garden, and knew we wanted to make it an edible garden, one of the first plants I wanted was a Boysenberry plant.

Growing & Propagating Rosemary From Cuttings – Here’s How?

Growing & Propagating Basil From Cuttings – Here’s How?

Propagating Mint – Know Root Structure, Growth and Care

How To Split Asparagus

Edible Ground Cover

Propagating Boysenberry Plants

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