Biofumigant Update: Mustard Greens Progress Report Back in May, we wrote about the soil-borne pathogens that devastated our tomato and eggplant crops last summer, most likely Fusarium - a fungal disease that affects the plant's vascular tissues so the... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 20
Biofumigation: Using Mustard Greens to Fight Soil-Borne Disease Last summer held its own horrors in our garden's polyhouses as over a thousand of our precious tomato plants wilted and died. They would grow beautifully to flowering, even setting fruit, and then ove... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 23
Broccoli's Hidden Hunger: What Purple Leaves Are Telling You This cold time of year some of our broccoli plants do not grow to their potential and instead develop purplish tinged leaves, and produce small heads. This is due to a complex intersection between the... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 17
Is Your Garden Ready For Spring? August on the mid-north coast is a sweet spot - winter is mostly behind us, and (except for some welcome chilly mornings), the warmth is starting to creep back in day by day. Anticipation is building!... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 21
Starting a Vegetable Garden from Scratch Establishing a garden in a new place is an exciting but challenging endeavor. If it is to produce an abundant harvest for you and your family, here are a few steps I suggest you take in its developmen... gardening grow your own 6 Sept 2026 0 18
Producer or Consumer? One simple way to divide the world is into producers and consumers. Most of us drift into consuming unintentionally - it's easier, it's faster, it's what's on offer. Producing takes getting your hands... 6 Sept 2026 0 18
Masters Of Fresh, Desley Bailey Autumn in the Garden The last few days have been so very salubrious in our garden! Cooler temperatures gave us the best indication yet that autumn is just around the corner. Yippee! And Friday was the perfect transplantin... 1 May 2026 0 184
Masters Of Fresh, Desley Bailey Bailey & Co. Property Summer on the Mid North Coast is not for the faint-hearted gardener. Farming is inherently a high risk enterprise at the best of times, but never more so than during our summer. The heat, humidity and... 1 May 2026 0 210
Masters Of Fresh, Desley Bailey The GMO's are Coming Back in August 2025 I wrote about the Californian company seeking approval to grow and sell us all GMO tomatoes. Well... Last month, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator and Food Standards Aust... 1 May 2026 0 208
Masters Of Fresh, Desley Bailey Market Gratitude At the end of each year, Rod and I spend some time reflecting on the months behind us - the successes, the failures, and the reasons for both. Have you ever noticed that our failures tend to stand out... 1 May 2026 0 175
Masters Of Fresh, Desley Bailey Beware the Little Foxes I heard as a child that foxes love eating watermelon. I wasn’t a distrusting child, but I wasn’t quite sure about the foxes and watermelon story. Until I found a big Klondike watermelon completely hol... 1 May 2026 0 170
Masters Of Fresh, Desley Bailey Raquel's Perspective Hello, Homegrown Organics friend! As I write these lines, the chime of bell miners and the rustling breeze whizzing through the gum trees create the perfect setting for a delightful moment of reflecti... 1 May 2026 0 200
