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\"Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Seedlings<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Giant<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Flowers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Close<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mustard,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cabbage<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Carrots<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cauliflower<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cauliflower<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Seeds<\/a><\/p>\n

\"5<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Flowers<\/a><\/p>\n

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I woke up Saturday morning at 6am sneezing. Dylan had been sick as a dog all week and had passed on the batton just in time for the weekend. But it didn’t hit me too badly, at first I was a bit sad to miss the Elwood Permablitz, but when I heard there would be an RMIT film crew there I was secretly relieved. I find being interviewed quite traumatic.<\/p>\n

I spent my weekend just generally lazing around in the sun when he crept out from the clouds and doing a planting plan for my mum’s community garden plot at the Farnham Street Park. I’m excited to have a place to experiment with chickpeas, soya beans and peanuts! I spent Sunday afternoon in our sharehouse “loft” that I took over this winter as my greenhouse. Can you tell I was bored? I planted out a whole stack of dried beans into newspaper pots<\/a> for my mum’s garden and some super hot chilli seeds. I have experimented with putting seedlings in milk cartons and toilet rolls in the past, but the newspaper pots<\/a> are by far the best thing I’ve used to minimise transplant stress. They break down really well and are just so cute.<\/p>\n

Now I’m off to make dinner, our nature strip cauliflower has gotten enormous and Dylan thinks someone will take it if we leave it too long. Chickpea and cauliflower curry I think, with coconut rice! Mmmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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