Program of Events
| Time | Duration | Location | Presenter | Topic | Synopsis |
| 10.20am | 10 minutes | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | TBA | Acknowledgement of Country | Acknowledgement of the traditional custodians of Kaurna country. |
| 10.30am | 40 minutes | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Rosanne & Andrew (Joe’s Connected Garden) | History & Future of Joe’s Connected Garden | Hear about the beginnings of JCG, how we engage with the community and our plans for the future. |
| 11.30am | 1 hour | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Jacqui Garcia (Edible Adelaide) | Starting a backyard veggie patch | Learn all about starting a veggie patch – perfect for beginner gardeners! |
| 11.30am | 40 minutes | Mary’s back yard (green) | Joe (Joe’s Connected Garden) | Planting fruit trees clay soil | Learn how to successfully plant and establish a fruit tree in clay soil, with Q & A |
| 12.00pm | 1 hour | Meet at Joe’s Veranda (blue) | Malcolm Haines (Ligaya Garden) | Food Underfoot | A walk and talk on identification and uses of edible and medicinal weeds commonly found in gardens. |
| 12.40pm | 1 hour | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Peter (Australian Worm Firm) | Worm Farming | How to set up, maintain and harvest from a backyard worm farm. |
| 1.50pm | 1 hour 10 minutes | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Andrew, Joe, Rosanne, Malcolm, and Peter. | Q & A panel | Come along and have your gardening questions answered by our panel. |
| 3.00pm | 1 hour | Meet in Rosanne’s back garden (red) | Andrew Thompson | Summer Pruning demonstration | A practical demonstration of how to prune fruit trees, particularly stone fruits, in summer. |
| 3.10 pm | 50 minutes | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Jenny Deans (Cosmophylla Garden Services & Advice) | Mulch Matters | Learn all about the importance and benefits of mulching your garden – from water retention to creating a healthy soil microbiome. |
SATURDAY 18TH FEBRUARY
SUNDAY 19TH FEBRUARY
| Time | Duration | Location | Presenter | Topic | Synopsis |
| 10.20am | 10 mins | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Mayor Glenn Docherty | Acknowledgement of Country | Acknowledgement of the traditional custodians of Kaurna country. |
| 10.30am | 45 mins | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Jenny Deans (Cosmophylla Garden Services & Advice) | Mulch Matters | Learn all about the importance and benefits of mulching your garden – from water retention to creating a healthy soil microbiome. |
| 11.20am | 50 mins | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Joe & Rosanne (Joe’s Connected Garden) | History & Future of Joe’s Connected Garden | Hear about the beginnings of JCG, how we engage with the community and our plans for the future. |
| 12.20pm | 50 mins | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Kris Messenger (Bugs ‘n’ Slugs) | Good Bug / Bad Bug | Tips & tricks for integrated pest management in the home garden. |
| 12.00pm | 1 hour | Meet in Rosanne’s back garden (red) | TBA | Summer Pruning Demonstration | A practical demonstration of how to prune fruit trees, particularly stone fruits, in summer. |
| 1.20pm | 1 hour | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Sophie Thompson (Gardening Australia) | Cooler, Greener, More Liveable Gardens | How to green up, cool down our urban gardens |
| 2.30 pm | 1 hour 10 minutes | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Andrew, Joe, Rosanne and Sophie. | Q & A panel | Come along and have your gardening questions answered by our panel. |
| 3.45 | 30 minutes | Joe’s garden by Gazebo | Joe (Joe’s Connected Garden) | Fundamentals of irrigation | Demonstration – how to set up a simple irrigation system in your backyard. |
| 3.45pm | 30 mins | Rosanne’s front garden (red) | Geoff Coombe TBA | Snake Safety | How to be safe around species of snakes you might find in your backyard |
As well as the usual dry/warm climate fruit trees, strawberry plants and new herb and vegetable seeds and seedlings we will also have some in demand unusual trees/bushes. A friend has been caring for some goji berries for us and dropped them off today. Nice looking plants which we will sell for about $5 each, a much better buy than the app $15 you will pay in the shops. Also, the ones in the shops are more than likely wolfberries, a close relative with similar fruit but very sparse. We also have a variety of dragon fruit and other subtropicals. A full list will be published next week.
At the RFS meeting on Tuesday Ben Waddelow, a commercial grower in the Riverland, said he would also bring some unusual plants down with him for a separate plant sale. He specialises in jujubes (Sunlands jujubes) and will bring other things that we don’t have including mangoes and persimmons. There is always a lot of interest when we talk about growing mangoes and his are two years old and he has got them through the critical first winters and they are about a metre high. They are sun hardened Riverland Kensington Prides, the very best ones to grow here. I told him I thought they would be very popular so can I have an indication of how many of you would like one so he brings enough down with him?
We are often asked why we open at the hottest time of the year. The simple answer is that a fruiting garden is at its best at this time with the abundance of summer fruits. Joe and I are both summer bunnies and don’t mind at all being out in the sun doing the preparation although I suspect most of our volunteers do not share our enthusiasm!
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