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Author: Dr Helen Tyzack
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- 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: Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Saving seeds from my Ukrainian tomato plant
Last October, the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) held public sales of tomato plants. One that I acquired was labelled Hurma Ukrainian. It grows high and wide (is an indeterminate tomato) and develops large yellow tomatoes. The eating texture is … Continue reading
Green beans from the garden
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
No RTBG – but compost is brewing
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
RTBG – the produce gets picked
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
Spikes of plants and spikes of humour
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.
Not the RTBG but another garden
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
RTBG The world is now a different place
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
