Sowing
- Anemone
- Asparagus
- Bearded Iris
- Blackberry
- Boysenberry
- Bulb Onion
- Bunching Onion
- Chickpea
- +20 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
July at 98 Hortense St
Harvesting
- hardy greens, leeks, parsnips
- citrus at its sweetest
- sprouting broccoli
- the last of the autumn pumpkins
Tending
- plan the spring garden over a cup of tea
- prune stone fruit
- sharpen tools, mend stakes
- turn the compost
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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Membership fees cover seeds, tools, water, and the small infrastructure that keeps the patch alive.
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