Bulleen Art and Garden
Presenter: Melissa King
Episode: 19
1st September 2007
Post World war two growing fruit and veggies in the backyard was common practice, but lets face it by the 70’s and 80’s you were a bit of a hippy if you did that. But like all good things the wheel has turned full circle as more and more people are enjoying the benefits of home grown food. One of the leaders of this revolution is Bulleen Art and Garden.
Vegetables have gone retro! Heirloom varieties of vegetables are about the hottest thing you can be growing right now. That is old-fashioned varieties with old fashioned flavour, which come in an incredible diversity of shapes, colours, and textures. There is a silver beet with rainbow coloured stems that keep their colour when cooked and a purple sweet potato – with a mottled centre, just gorgeous!
These days it is not unusual to spot heritage vegetables on the plate at top restaurants. Varieties like this are a talking point around the dinner table and when you cook with them. It does not matter how simple the dish is, you will look like a gourmet chef.
If you have not done so already, now is the perfect time to get your seed potatoes in to the ground. This time try something different like some of the gourmet buttery yellow fleshed varieties or ones with pretty pink skins.
Collecting and saving seed to sow next season is one of the pleasures of gardening, but it is a pleasure that is lost with hybrid varieties because they do not produce the same plants from their seed, so one of the best things about growing heirloom vegetables is that you can collect the seed year after year. Theoretically your average seed packet should last forever.
Heritage Vegetables are traditionally available as seed and there is an incredible range available, but if you visit a progressive nursery like Bulleen Art and Garden you will also find them in punnets. You can also get organic seedlings, which is one of the best reasons to grow your own.
If you want to grow your own fruit and vegetables but you are concerned about water use then try a dry tolerant productive garden in a small space, featuring great plants like the Australian Lime, tough fragrant rosemary and the delicious pineapple guava.
In general you should not use grey water on the veggie patch but it is ok for fruit trees, shrubs and vines - plants where food is held up off the ground and will not come into contact with grey water. It is also worth making the point that there is water that you use around the home that can be harvested safely to use on the veggie garden E.g. left over herbal tea, cooled cooking water, or water used to wash veggies.
Bulleen Art and Garden
6 Manningham Road West
Bulleen VIC
Episode: 19
1st September 2007
Post World war two growing fruit and veggies in the backyard was common practice, but lets face it by the 70’s and 80’s you were a bit of a hippy if you did that. But like all good things the wheel has turned full circle as more and more people are enjoying the benefits of home grown food. One of the leaders of this revolution is Bulleen Art and Garden.
Vegetables have gone retro! Heirloom varieties of vegetables are about the hottest thing you can be growing right now. That is old-fashioned varieties with old fashioned flavour, which come in an incredible diversity of shapes, colours, and textures. There is a silver beet with rainbow coloured stems that keep their colour when cooked and a purple sweet potato – with a mottled centre, just gorgeous!
These days it is not unusual to spot heritage vegetables on the plate at top restaurants. Varieties like this are a talking point around the dinner table and when you cook with them. It does not matter how simple the dish is, you will look like a gourmet chef.
If you have not done so already, now is the perfect time to get your seed potatoes in to the ground. This time try something different like some of the gourmet buttery yellow fleshed varieties or ones with pretty pink skins.
Collecting and saving seed to sow next season is one of the pleasures of gardening, but it is a pleasure that is lost with hybrid varieties because they do not produce the same plants from their seed, so one of the best things about growing heirloom vegetables is that you can collect the seed year after year. Theoretically your average seed packet should last forever.
Heritage Vegetables are traditionally available as seed and there is an incredible range available, but if you visit a progressive nursery like Bulleen Art and Garden you will also find them in punnets. You can also get organic seedlings, which is one of the best reasons to grow your own.
If you want to grow your own fruit and vegetables but you are concerned about water use then try a dry tolerant productive garden in a small space, featuring great plants like the Australian Lime, tough fragrant rosemary and the delicious pineapple guava.
In general you should not use grey water on the veggie patch but it is ok for fruit trees, shrubs and vines - plants where food is held up off the ground and will not come into contact with grey water. It is also worth making the point that there is water that you use around the home that can be harvested safely to use on the veggie garden E.g. left over herbal tea, cooled cooking water, or water used to wash veggies.
Bulleen Art and Garden
6 Manningham Road West
Bulleen VIC
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