Monthly Archives: March 2020

Green beans from the garden

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

Last year a couple of scarlet runner bean seeds were ‘lost’ on the ground near the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens Food Garden tool shed. Waste not want not, I decided, and brought them home. The seeds are a pretty pink … Continue reading →

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Seed-collecting

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

At the end of 2017 I planted a punnet of the flowering plant Cosmos. They reared themselves in early 2018 and were a pleasure to behold. I didn’t grab them out when they died only ages later. By that time … Continue reading →

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Spaghetti from the sea

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

After a week at home with only three outings – 3 mornings in a row to the supermarket for a very short time, I was wanting to go out but kept feeling like it wasn’t a smart thing to do. Then a … Continue reading →

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No RTBG – but compost is brewing

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

I recall during one of my first Thursdays at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) in the Food Garden, fellow volunteer A explained to me the processes required for hot composting. I had heard of hot and cold composting but … Continue reading →

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Dinner ingredients

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

A couple of friends let me know they were excited; “Dinner ingredients – all grown by us. We are SO fortunate.”  I could foresee the wonders of health in a pot and health on a plate. A wedge was cut … Continue reading →

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RTBG – the produce gets picked

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

First one fellow volunteer sent me an email exclaiming ‘Adam has sent a Patch tomato update…. amazing!’ Then a phone message was left for me from another ‘Did you get Adams photos? All those tomatoes!!!’. Adam is the Coordinator of … Continue reading →

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Excess produce will have new homes

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

Previously I have talked about R and A’s use of a market stall at Margate to sell excess fruit and vegetables from growers down the Channel south of Hobart, and then to disperse the monetary takings to a local group … Continue reading →

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Spikes of plants and spikes of humour

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

Thanks R for sending me Spike Milligan’s poem ‘Smiling is Infectious’ – we smile broadly or subtly every Thursday all day when we are at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) and considering the current pandemic, his poem is apt.

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Not the RTBG but another garden

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

One of my fellow volunteers at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) sent me an email yesterday (Thursday) and remarked “ I know I’m not the only one missing our day at The Patch today, so very much.”  R continued “I … Continue reading →

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RTBG The world is now a different place

Posted on March 22, 2020 by Tasmanian Traveller

Unless you were having a long sleep under a log deep in an impenetrable forest, you would be experiencing massive changes to the way you think and what you do each day as a result of the COVID virus impacting … Continue reading →

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