The Diggers Blog

Well, I came inside to avoid the chill and the rain and start on this blog.  Low and behold I venture out and it’s a bright early summer day.  I know Melbourne is the home more...

Along with avoiding chemicals and seeking better taste and nutrition, one of the top five reasons people choose to buy organic products is because it is one of the only sure ways of avoiding the untested genetically modified (GM) organisms that are slowly and silently creeping into our food more...

Supermarket grown potatoes have more pesticides sprayed on them than almost any other vegetable. It took the death of 3 million Irish during the potato famine to show us how susceptible the tubers are to more...

The box warehouse is today as ubiquitous as a McDonalds or Kentucky chicken store.  But have you ever thought about how "ungreen" these warehouses are? You drive in to a bitumen carpark, usually devoid of more...

Those dutchy's keep telling us to buy bulbs that are really only suitable for cut flowers. Tulips, for example, flower for just 3 weeks at best, leaving 49 weeks of gaps in the garden which more...

We can admire English gardens for all the right reasons but sourcing our vegetables and fruit seeds from their damp, cool climate is absurd. English gardeners cannot grow tomatoes, capsicums, pumpkins and melons, let alone more...

The most complete green vegetable just happens to be a magnet for cabbage white butterflies and their grubs. But if you grow them through the cooler months you won't have spray at all. Supermarket hybrid more...

Botanicus Organicus. Seeds not modified by man. These botanic originals form the backbone of Australia's finest gardens, our botanic gardens. These species have adapted to millions of years of ecological change growing in natural organic more...

Woolworths continues the humbug of claiming they are "the fresh food people". One of their latest ads takes the Oscar for deception by suggesting their "fresh food" comes from our backyards! Does being the fresh more...

90% of garlic consumed in Australia is imported and fumigated with the deadliest of poisons (methyl-bromide) which is toxic to all life above or below ground. By growing your own organically you can have fresh more...