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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: pumpkin
Giant pumpkins obliterated
This story focuses on the end of giant pumpkins Continue reading
Royal Tasmanian Botanical Garden’s Food Garden
Sometimes referred to as a Community Garden, the Food Garden within the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is not for general community consumption – in terms of eating the produce. Regardless of notices, some visitors think they can take one or … Continue reading
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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Normality in the Food Garden
Think Thursday. Think volunteers. Think plants. Think harvests. Think weeding. Think Food Garden of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. Nothing could be more normal than our wonderfully committed voluntary team who plunge their hands into the soil, dig holes, nestle … Continue reading
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Tagged bay tree, Blueberries, Cinderella pumpkin, Food Garden, Kiwi fruit, KY1 tomatoes, La Rouge D'Etampes, leeks, oxalis, pumpkin, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Shallots, soy beans, strawberry, sunflowers, tomatoes, zucchini
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A lot happens over a fortnight
It had been only a fortnight since I last visited the Food Garden of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, yet when I arrived last Thursday I could see significant and substantial changes had been made. Highly visible was the deepened … Continue reading
Sequel to the Cinderella pumpkin story
Wedges of my first Rouge Vif D’Etampes pumpkin are now spread across Hobart. Most friends told me they will make pumpkin soup so I decided to pass on one of my standard but very different recipes: a meal I make … Continue reading
Cinderella’s carriage
I save seed from the fruits of vegetables and herbs and so do others. Early last year I enjoyed eating a wedge of Robyn and Andrew’s Golden Nugget pumpkins and around that time accepted pumpkin seed from them. When I … Continue reading
Posted in Tasmania
Tagged Cinderella, Cinderella's carriage, cucurbita maxima, Etampes, French heirloom pumpkin, Paris, pumpkin, Rouge Vif d'Entempes
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Change is always possible
Next to a large red flowering camellia, in my front garden, grew a particularly attractive Rhododendron called Silver Edge with variegated leaves. Around these colourful plants grew self-sown marigolds, cosmos, potatoes, strawberries, tomato seedlings and unwanted plants better known as … Continue reading
RTBG Thursday 5th March 2021
In the Food Garden at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG), the Giant Atlantic pumpkin story is reducing. Now only one large and growing ‘beast’ remains – not affected by rot on its base or having been moved accidentally by … Continue reading
RTBG-Thursday 28 January 2021
It is a testament to how well our team of Food Garden volunteers work in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG). On Thursday when our Co-ordinator was away we simply got to work and achieved a great deal – with … Continue reading
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Tagged apple tree, buckwheat, chilli, corn, Food Garden, hazelnut, pumpkin, purslane, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, RTBG
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Tasmanian Discoveries 