Far From Green

24/03/2026

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07/03/2026

What do you do with messed up corn?
You eat it anyway.
This is what happens when corn isn't planted in a big block. Corn is wind pollinated, so the pollen from the tassels needs to fall onto the silks of nearby plants.
When they're too spread out, some kernels never get pollinated... and you end up with these funny looking cobs.
Not exactly supermarket perfect.
But here's the thing... it still tastes incredible.
Straight from the garden to the BBQ with a bit of colour on it and suddenly no one cares what it looks like. Sweet, fresh and honestly some of the best corn we've had.
Garden lesson of the day
Plant corn in blocks, not rows.
But also... don't waste the weird ones. They still belong on the plate.

27/02/2026

We were playing the long game with these pumpkins.

Leaving them on the vine.
Waiting for the plant to fully die back.
Letting them harden off so they store for months.

But Brisbane had other plans.

With all this rain rolling in, we had to make the call. Harvest now… or risk them splitting and rotting in the mud.

So out we went.

And guess how many we found?

SEVEN.

Seven pumpkins hiding under leaves like they knew I was counting.

And there are still more coming.

This is what I love about growing food. You wait. You doubt yourself. You think maybe it was not worth the space.

Then you lift a vine and boom. Dinner for months.

Micro farming on 450m² and still pulling in real harvests. Tired mum. Mud everywhere. Worth it.

Would you have waited… or harvested early too?

23/02/2026

This is what is hiding under the flower.
Each time a bract (that big purple petal looking layer) lifts and rolls back, it reveals a new "hand" of bananas.
The little cream flowers you can see are what the bananas form from. Once they're pollinated or naturally set, the petals dry and fall off, and the fruit starts swelling.
On a Super Dwarf Cavendish, this process happens gradually over a couple of weeks. The top hands are the biggest and most developed, and each layer underneath is slightly younger.
After the final hands form, the plant will focus all its energy into filling the fruit. Then once harvested, this whole stem is done and the next pup takes over.
One plant. One bunch. Then the babies step up.
Still blows my mind every time I peel it back and see a whole future snack stash hiding in there

21/02/2026

This is what happens when you let strawberry runners take over and just hope for the best 😅

Tiny fruit.
Rotting before ripening.
No airflow. No space. Just a leafy jungle fighting itself.

I thought more plants meant more strawberries.
Turns out they’re just competing for light and nutrients.

So we’re thinning. Replanting. Starting again.

Micro farming on 450m2 in Brisbane is basically one big science experiment and this one?
We learnt something.

Have you ever let strawberries get out of control?



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18/02/2026

I noticed ONE peanut plant looking a little dull compared to the rest…

That was all the permission I needed 🤣

Up it came.

And honestly? Not too bad at all. A decent little handful hiding under there.

The rest still look lush and green so I’m going to try very hard to leave them alone for a few more weeks.

Keyword: try.

This is the real micro farming life. Constant internal battle between “let it mature” and “I need to know now.”

Would you have waited… or pulled it like me? 🥜🌱

17/02/2026

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16/02/2026

I may have made a tiny mistake… 🐣

3 Cream Legbar “pullets”
3 Easter Eggers

And now we play the most stressful backyard game of all time…

✨ How many roosters did I just accidentally buy? ✨

My official guess?

I think the black one is plotting something.
I don’t trust that energy.

The rest are innocent until proven crowing.

Place your bets below 👇
How many Roos am I not allowed to have?

And which one would you side-eye first? 😅

15/02/2026

Hand pollinating a Sugar Baby watermelon because sometimes you've got to play bee yourself
Tiny flower today, hopefully a sweet little melon in a few weeks. Gardening is equal parts patience, hope, and me whispering "please work" to plants.

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