Greetings from Fremantle

[hawkypork]

Hello all,

I have really enjoyed reading the other intros here.

I have been a food growing nut for a few years now putting in gardens wherever I have lived including a couple of challenging growing years in Cape York.

Now I have a place of my own in Fremantle. It is an Italian built house in an Italian street. The backyard has 40 year old grape vines, olives trees, a lemons and a fig tree. The previous owner also added oranges, nectarines and a few others. Like every house in my street we have a cantina under the house to "make a da wine"; a terrific room for bottling, storing, honey extraction etc. With a climate and soils here very similar to southern Italy I hope to learn a thing or two from my neighbour's gardens.

In addition, I also have a vege garden in a friend's unused backyard over the river in North Fremantle. Me and a mate get over there for a chinwag, a beer and a little bit of gardening. I am putting the low maintenance stuff like cabbages, pumpkins and potatoes over there and keeping the fiddly stuff like peas and tomatoes at home. It interesting however, to see how the same crop does in two locations.

My philsophy is intuitive gardening rather than scientific. It seems I can agree with just about everything I find out about permaculture even if I dont always abide by it. Very interested in capturing and resusing energy and water.

thanks for reading my rave, all the best, Haakon

[9anda1f]

Welcome Haakon and thanks for the intro.

Your place sounds wonderful. Got pics? ;)


My philsophy is intuitive gardening

I'm thinking that Permaculture itself is a big part intuition. Makes me think of PurplePears sig-line:

"INTENT-OBSERVATION-INTUITION"

(actually I remember PP's sig line often ... there's a lot of truth there)

[Michaelangelica]

Welcome :)

similar to southern Italy I hope to learn a thing or two from my neighbour's gardens.
Bloody Italian-boat-people-migrants
Send them all back! That's what i say! They just show all the rest of us up.
I walked past a small house in Marricville, Sydney last summer and saw a 2x2M patch of tomatoes 9 foot high, so healthy so laden with huge tomatoes, and as dense and thick a stand as a bamboo forest! I was disgusted! How dare they do that! How come I can't do that!?
Just as well our enlightened NSW government and planning department is banning backyards! we soon won't have to have our gardening skills shown up.
;)
Fremantle sounds like a great part of the world. I have always dreamed of watching the sun set into the ocean as i rarely get up early enough to see it rise! i have seen E and W coasts of USA and UK but not of Oz. poor me.:)


Very interested in capturing and resusing energy
been playing with mirrors in my shady garden. I need to work out a cheap way of making them track the sun.

[eco4560]

I need to work out a cheap way of making them track the sun.

Stand in the backyard all day and move them? ;)

[sun burn]

Big tomatoes - I wonder if they use Thrive. Someone gave me a russian black tomato seedling not so long ago. Her's, in a pot, is tall and already has fruit on it. Mine is still about 5 inches high. To be fair to me, its not growing in the best of soil but I know she doses hers up with Thrive.

I enjoyed your description too hawkypork (lol). It reminds me of my Italian landlords living next door to me in Sydney. Keep yourself open to their cooking tips as well as growing tips. They have some great recipes.