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Author: Dr Helen Tyzack
newtyzack@gmail.comMy blogsites
- Mainland Discoveries Records of my explorations of landscapes on mainland Australia
- Touching the Tarkine Record of my exploration of Tasmania’s Tarkine wilderness
- Walking the Derwent The record of my walk from the mouth to the source of Tasmania’s Derwent River
Tag Archives: beans
The Food Garden continues to flourish
First I had a book to complete and publish and then I got Covid the day after publication – so my stories of changes in the Food Garden at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens came to a halt. Earlier on, … Continue reading
Posted in Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Tasmania
Tagged artichoke, beans, fig, Food Garden, hazelnut, mulberry, pumpkin, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Garden, Silver beet, Soy bean, sunflowers, tomato, zuchinni
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Thursday 7th February 2022 at RTBG
Summer in the Food Garden of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) is a delight. Fruit and vegetables are ripening a plenty as can be seen by today’s harvest collected for charity: tomatoes galore of many types, a variety of … Continue reading
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) continues to be open to the public, because staff and volunteers are all vaccinated. Of course the Food Garden (ex Pete’s Patch) continues to flourish. Yesterday, volunteer Pam took a swag of photos to … Continue reading
The good and the bad of growing broad beans
Regularly over the years I have sown broad beans and harvested a nice little crop sufficient to freeze some for later eating. But I missed the past couple of years. Not to be deterred and with a goodly quantity of … Continue reading
Hey presto it is pesto
While this was never intended to become a fresh produce blog and then a food blog, this particular post might have you wondering. A few years ago I stopped over in Abu Dhabi for a day and experienced an exceptional … Continue reading
Posted in Tasmania
Tagged almonds, beans, chillies, Emirates Palace Hotel, flat leaf parsley, hazelnuts, olive oil, pesto, rock salt, squash, sunflower seeds, walnut, zucchini
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Community garden
A couple of weeks ago I set off in the dark around 6am and headed for the Heemskirk Community Garden in the next suburb of Warrane. Members of the local community value the garden. It was well into development at … Continue reading
RTBG Food Garden continues
A month ago my world compressed. Notice was given that, due to the COVID virus, volunteering at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) could not continue for its duration. A fortnight ago the RTBG was closed to visitors. All very … Continue reading
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Tagged beans, Capsicum, Eggplant, Feijoa, Food Garden, hazelnut, passionfruit, pumpkin, Quince, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, RTBG, tomatoes
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RTBG Thursday 28 February 2020
I knew I had personal jobs to do at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) not just volunteering in the Food Garden: Once there I purchased a tiny tubed Chinese paper bush (Edgeworthia) for a friend (long term blog readers … Continue reading
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Tagged beans, Buffalo grass, Chinese Paper Bush, Edgeworthia, Food Garden, Global Food Security, Golden Marjoram, Gravel, horseradish, Magpie, marjoram, Medicargo, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, RTBG, soil, sunflower seeds, tomatoes, weed
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