Would you believe we are officially in Drought and our water usage is down 40% compared to last Summer -- a wet one -- but the plants live! That's the hobby, you see:Making the best of soil and climate...and scrounging mulch.
But for me the key inspiration has been the Greek and Italian formatted veg backyards of Inner city Melbourne.
You want to learn horticulture? Then go rent in Brunswick or Northcote or Preston or Thornbury or Clifton Hill in the seventies and take on the lessons of a gentrification occupancy .
What's missing is cement, right? But hey, I got figs...you gotta have figs.
