The October issue of Gardening Australia is once again full of interesting articles. Lots of tips and more from the great Vegetable Growing guide from Jerry Colbey-Williams.This month Maggie Beer has a super special on one of my favourite veggies - Silverbeet. I have always grown this vegetable no matter where we have lived. Of course Maggie has included how to use Silverbeet in the kitchen...I'll have to share this information at the Community Garden where the Silverbeet has really taken off.
Millie Ross is busy out in the garden again this time growing a Playhouse for the Kids. A Bean Teepee that sounds like great fun!
This month's Gardening Diary is packed full of seasonal tips. Like what to plant now in your region, new plants on the market and even how to make your own (safe) wetting agent at home.
Then there is the important issue of Food Security. A thought provoking article about just where our food is coming from and includes the grim statistic that shows Australians waste 7.5 million tonnes of food each year.
Thanks to the people at Morey Media, who do the PR for Gardening Australia, for sending me a freebie copy of this latest magazine so that I could review it here for you.
Magazine Giveaway!!!
This time I'm allowed to give away a copy of the October Gardening Australia magazine to one of my blog readers!
As long as you live in Australia (sorry) you can go in the draw!
For a chance to have a free copy of the October Gardening Australia Magazine sent to you just leave a comment below and I'll put all your names in a hat and get Doc to draw a winner at noon on Saturday 1st Oct 2011 so be sure to come back and check if you have been the lucky winner.
Check out the Gardening Australia website here
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Hi :) I would love a copy. Great magazine and great blog too Scarecrow
ReplyDeleteHello, still loving your blog and now your new giveaway *yay* I'll enter the draw please. :)
ReplyDeleteHi, really like your blog, and the freeby is a great excuse to delurk.
ReplyDeleteLove your blog and all the wonderful useful information you share. I am very interested in the articles you have reviewed too. Food security and wastage being a straon issue that needs to be brought to the attention of many.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Ooh yes, count me in please! I used to subscribe to GA magazine but had to give up that particular joy this year, cutting back the spending. Now I have to wait in line at the local library and often get it 2 or 3 months behind!
ReplyDeleteHi, I have just found your blog recently and am loving it. I would love to win a copy of the magazine.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great offer - include me too please. I've got a crop of silverbeet in at the moment so I will need some tips.
ReplyDeleteMmmm silverbeet - although bizarrely half of mine has started going to seed already - and it hasn't even been hot here!
ReplyDeleteHi Scarecrow,
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting a giveaway. I would love to join.
Happy gardening
Tracy
sign me up for this give away please much to be read in there..Thanks a Bunch(of silverbeet)
ReplyDeleteHi Scarecrow - I've returned to your blog again and again - it's so informative - thank you!
ReplyDeleteI have to tape Gardening Australia cos my husband is not interested in gardening and vegies till they hit the kitchen - then he cooks them into wonderful food with great pride and enthusiasm! So I'd love a copy of the mag please to pore over at leisure :)
Cheers Greenie x
I've not heard of silverbeet. What is it? Is it a white beetroot?
ReplyDeleteHi Matron
ReplyDeleteI think you call it Swiss Chard, it's an easier growing substitute for English Spinach.
A member of the beet family Beta vulgaris it handles our extremes of climate better.
Some other common names are perpetual spinach, spinach beet, crab beet, bright lights (this is the coloured stemmed variety).
We grew silverbeet for the first time this year and enjoyed it very much! We really like to get more idea how to enjoy silverbeet.
ReplyDeleteScarecrow, why do you like silverbeet? I have tried growing it. It grew easily. BUT I dont know why, I hated that taste. It tastes very earthly and funny. How do you cook it? I am Asian so I stir-fried it. Maybe I did it injustice by doing that. My family does not seem to enjoy this vege when I keep reading that it is yummy. :(
ReplyDeleteHey SavvyMummy
ReplyDeleteI love Silverbeet because it grows easily in my climate.
I would love to grow all the Asian greens like you have growing but they don't like my cold winters and then they don't seem to do very well in our extreme summer heat!
If you don't like silverbeet you are better off growing what you do love to eat and what grows well in your garden.
Especially when they are yelling out to be harvested like yours :):)
We usually cook silverbeet in very little water with a tomato (out of the freezer during winter) until it is just wilted. Then take it off the heat and put in some small cubes of cheese and let that melt! We find this way yummy but you may not like it.
Everybody has different tastes :)
Hi Scarecrow, oh maybe the cheese will musk the taste. I agree that silver beet is so easy to grow and full of iron? if i didn't remember wrongly. Hehe the asian greens are easy to grow, yes been harvesting them for dishes ;). But when the weather gets too warm they bolt easily and i will have to plant some other veges.
ReplyDeleteI think it's the iron in it that makes it taste strange...it almost feels gritty on your teeth!
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