Sowing
- Allium (Flowering Onion)
- Anemone
- Asparagus
- Bearded Iris
- Black Pearl Lily
- Blackberry
- Bluebell
- Boysenberry
- +44 more in the calendar
Maribyrnong, Naarm
A garden grown together, season by season.
We tend a patch of edible earth at 98 Hortense St, a place to dig, share seeds, and follow the year through what the soil offers.
In the garden right now
June at 98 Hortense St
Harvesting
- kale, cavolo nero, silverbeet
- leeks, parsnips, the first carrots
- oranges, mandarins, lemons
- winter herbs (parsley, thyme, sage)
Tending
- prune the apples and pears
- plant bare-rooted fruit trees
- sweep leaves to the compost
- rest the beds you've finished with
Coming up
Next at the garden
Saturday 13 June 2026 · 11:00 am
Winter seed swap
Bring saved seeds, take home what you'll plant in spring. Tea, biscuits, and a long conversation.
Maribyrnong Edible Garden, 98 Hortense St
From the journal
What's growing now
20 Apr 2026
The last of the tomatoes
Stripping the vines, ripening the green ones on a sunny windowsill, and the bittersweet end of summer.
5 Apr 2026
Notes on the compost corner
Three bays, a garden fork, and the slow alchemy of turning kitchen scraps into next season's beds.
15 Mar 2026
The equinox, and what to sow now
Daylight evens up, the soil is still warm, and there's a short window for autumn greens to get going before the cold.
Through the seasons
The garden in pictures
Sow the season
A planting calendar for Melbourne's inner west.
When to start tomatoes indoors. When to direct-sow rocket. When to harvest broad beans. A simple month-by-month guide we use ourselves.
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The garden runs on members and volunteers.
Membership fees cover seeds, tools, water, and the small infrastructure that keeps the patch alive.
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