- No Newsletter Editor
- Dorothy Volunteered - good work
- Website
- People being very slack with Library books. Please bring your books back, if you can't be at the meeting, please call the librarian to ask them where you can drop the books off or seek permission to carry it over until next month. Same applies to PH testing kit and brix meter. Brix meter is very expensive
- Planting calendars available $20 each
- Winter vege competition. Who can grow the biggest
- Cauliflower
- Cabbage
- Beetroot
- Leek
- Turnip
- Carrot
- Weirdest Vegetable
- Snowball Cauliflowers
- Autumn is the best time for growing
- Home Grown Movie
- Zero Bin Movie
- Garlic is good this time of the year
- Kale - plant it now
- Asparagus - 20 year crop - baby ones wait 2 years.
- 1 year crowns, wait one year.
- Crop for about 6 weeks.
- Don't overpick them
- Kolrabi is a good one for this time of the year. Tastes quite mild and nutty.
Elizabeth - Permaculture from Sunshine coast. Talking about tropical fruit and vegetables
- with husband frank on 6 acres. Self sufficient
- Have created a lot of gardens over time. Permaculture Noosa group is about 70 people most months
- Nobody knew what to do with the tropical plants
- Tropical Vegetable workshop in Brisbane on April 10th
- Temperate plants hate all the rain, Tropicals doing well
- Sweet potato very common one that most people know about
- Yam Bea
- 3 basic categories
- Tropical
- Brazilian Spinach - lovely border
- Tahitian
- Most tropicals
- Starchy
- Taro - Calcium Oxiland
- Sweet Potatoe
- Coco Yam
- Arrowroot
- Tahitian Spinach
- Yakon - Sweet roots, ground apple
- Beans, Gourds and Fruits
- New Gineau Bean
- Pepino
- Support species
- Vetiver Grass
- Lemon Grass
- Casava - bit of an issue with Cyanide - can build up if you have too much
- best way is to grate it
- ferment it - in a bucket
- Peel it - inner and the outer flesh combine to neutralise cyanide
- Always cook it
- Madagasca beans
- Bitter Melon - medicine food
- Jackfruit - know when it's ripe when you hear the possums
- pit pit - like and asparagus spear
- Aibika
- Tropical greens more nutricious as they are deep rooted
- Plant with Perenial Basil - confuses grasshoppers
- Eygytian spinach - her favourite - Maluchia
- Kankon - still going strong - rampant vine
- Japanese Parsley
- Kelor Tree
- Sweet potato vine tips
- Food Forrest
