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Get arty with moss!
When designing edible landscapes for people, we’re always looking for interesting things to captivate people’s imagination while bringing them back to nature. And creating your own personalised mural definitely makes a statement! Moss is great for giving...
Changing between heatwaves, rain and back again – and love in the garden!
Summer is almost over – although the last month has been a super-crazy one in terms of weather. Heat in the low 40s followed by super-mild weeks, bushfires, floods, super-heavy rain and everything in...
Chooks find a happy home
Permablitz recently put the call out to re-house Val’s much loved chooks – Val was moving, and couldn’t take the girls with her. There was an overwhelming response with over 70 people putting their...
Permablitz #177 Surrey Hills
The weather was perfect on this January Sunday afternoon in Surrey Hills, cloudy and not too hot. We joined Melissa and her small family to transform her garden into a place that she always...
Babaco
A versatile and remarkably easy to grow subtropical: the quiet achiever of the Carica genus, there is the papaya, but then there is the babaco – the champagne fruit – which will thrive in...
Top ten native Australian foods for your kitchen!
Native Australian produce is local, fresh, healthy and promotes Australian biodiversity. So why don’t we eat such foods more often? It’s not for lack of content or variety. In fact Aboriginal people were sustained...
Chooks free to good home!
Permablitz fan Val is moving, and sadly has to say goodbye to her three Isa Browns. The good news is that she’s willing to give them to a good home, and that could be you!
Identifying Plant Nutrient Deficiencies
Not all plant problems are caused by insects or diseases. Sometimes an unhealthy plant is suffering from a nutrient deficiency or even too much of any one nutrient. Plant nutrient deficiencies often manifest as...
Hot summer and get blitzed with cherry bombs!
Summer is now here with a vengeance, and with it comes extra watering, enjoying the production of your planted crops and the scourge of bushfires. Victorians have already watched with horror the fires in...
