This Sustainable House

The Canberra region has quite a harsh climate for gardeners with very hot dry summers, and bitterly cold winters. As a result our growing season is quite short requiring strategies, such as greenhouse growing of early seedlings, to artificially increase the growing season.

Last night the realities of cool climate gardening became apparent as the first frost descended over the property. Admittadley it was still quite a light frost but it does symbolically, and practically, demonstrate that the joy of summer is over. The still of winter has begun…