Evan Young

Hello Rainbow OMGers, Another week of cool and overcast weather has passed and plant growth in the Market Garden is slowing down with the shorter days. We can and always will grow right through Winter, we do however observe much slower growth in all plants this time of year. This week we planted flowers, more […]

Hello Rainbow OMGers, As the weather slowly cools, the garden changes with the Season. Some crops like Green Beans are phasing out until Spring while others like Sugar Snap Peas are taking over for Winter. We also see different weed species in the cooler months and our weeding schedule is busiest at this time of

Hello Rainbow OMGers, Another week of fun in the sun (and rain). This week we started applying compost to some of our market beds as we turn them over from one crop to another. Our initial application rate is very heavy being 400 Litres of Compost per 10 metre bed. This provides a very thick,

Hello Rainbow OMGers, This morning we were happy to wake up to 1.5 mm of rain in our gauge. This is great news, we always welcome the rain in the desert. We had a lovely ANZAC Day weekend, enjoying some home made, organic, sourdough pizza’s topped with our beautiful veggies including, cherry tomatoes, green capsicums,

Hello Rainbow OMGers, Autumn is here! The nights are cool, the days are beautiful and the ground is soaked from 27 mm of rain in 2 days, we love Autumn as it has the perfect weather to work outside in. As you can see in the photo above this week we broke ground in 4

Hello Rainbow OMGers, Happy Easter everyone, we will celebrate Sunday with family eating delicious food all day. We wish you all a splendid weekend filled with love and laughter. This Weekly Post comes to you a day early as we are offering Thursday deliveries this week instead of our usual Friday service. We are also

Hello Rainbow OMGers, What a great weekend we just had in Rainbow. The Big Sky Festival was a huge success and we had a great time at the market. We met some new customers, served many existing customers and sold vegetables, supplements, Gardenkraut and Sunshine Salve. In fact it was such a big weekend that

Hello Rainbow OMGers, We are gearing up for the Big Sky Festival Market 3-7 pm, this Saturday 26 March. As you can see above there will be a great range of stalls to compliment the great lineup of musicians, we are looking forward to a great day. This week we moved our Nursery back into

Hello Rainbow OMGers, Rain, rain, glorious rain, we love the rain. What a blessing of rain we have had this week, we have recorded around 30mm in two days and everything looks as good as the above rainbow at the end of our street. We may lose a few tomatoes from the rain but accept

Hello Rainbow OMGers, The mornings are cool and the days are beautiful, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Autumn. This is now the third cooler than usual Summer we have experienced in a row and we are loving it. We have observed that most of our vegetables will tolerate any weather below 40°C and