Central Coast Edible Garden Trail
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Blue Swimmer Cottage

low angle view of the Blue Swimmer Cottage gardens with daisies and warrigal greens in the foreground
set of 4 photos showing the garden host, colourful pollinator plants, a basket of produce and leafy greens
a hand holding a custard apple still on the tree
large basket of coffee berries sitting in front of the coffee tree

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Here’s a glimpse at what you will find at Blue Swimmer Cottage: • 25+ Fruit trees including our amazing custard apple, coffee & sapote trees. • Approx 100sqm of food producing garden beds, growing a diverse range of fruit, veg & medicinal plants. • The ‘Pollinators Corridor’. A mix of edible, medicinal & ornamental plants growing both sides of a pebble path down the narrow side of the cottage. • 12 month old native verge garden including native edibles. • Pond with various edible water plants as well as habitat for our local frogs. • Systems in action - water capture & storage, worm farm for food waste, in-ground composting, leave the leaves plus chop & drop composting for garden waste, maximising microclimates (our lychee & dragonfruit are testament to this).  Soil building in situ. • Tips on pest management & weed control. • Propagation advice • Plants for sale • Oh & birds, lots of birds!

Saturday opening hours

9:30 am

to

4:00 pm

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Set on a 500sqm suburban corner block where approx 100sqm is dedicated to gardens, Blue Swimmer Cottage is truly full of surprises.

We are proof that having an incredibly productive organic edible garden does not have to come at the expense of beauty or earth care. Here at Blue Swimmer Cottage we have a high yielding space with gardens on all 4 sides of our cottage plus two planted out verge areas… 360 degrees of permaculture bliss. Respecting the impact our stewardship of this patch has, we tend it with thoughtful consideration & gentleness, having earth care, people care & fair share at the core of what we do with systems in place to support this.

Like all gardens, ours is ever changing & we continue to learn and grow with it.  The sharing of knowledge is a big part of this. We are looking forward to the exchange of ideas participation in the edible garden trail brings. Stop by to chat about things as diverse as habitat creation to propagation to working with nature so nature can do much of the work for you! You’ll see plants that range from collard greens to valerian to rollinia to daphne to tea to apple berries to everyday salad greens… so & so forth.

We are very excited to open & share our permie paradise so please come say hi!

Here’s a glimpse at what you will find at Blue Swimmer Cottage:

• 25+ Fruit trees including our amazing custard apple, coffee & sapote trees.

• Approx 100sqm of food producing garden beds, growing a diverse range of fruit, veg & medicinal plants.

• The ‘Pollinators Corridor’. A mix of edible, medicinal & ornamental plants growing both sides of a pebble path down the narrow side of the cottage.

• 12 month old native verge garden including native edibles.

• Pond with various edible water plants as well as habitat for our local frogs.

• Systems in action – water capture & storage, worm farm for food waste, in-ground composting, leave the leaves plus chop & drop composting for garden waste, maximising microclimates (our lychee & dragonfruit are testament to this).  Soil building in situ.

• Tips on pest management & weed control.

• Propagation advice

• Plants for sale

• Oh & birds, lots of birds!

 

Safety

The house is surrounded by gardens on all 4 sides with the addition of verge gardens on both boundaries. Internal pathways consist of concrete, pebbles and grass with a potential single step or two. The verge is grassed with no pathways. Wheelchair, walker and pram access may be difficult. We ask children be supervised at all times as we have a pond and plants with thorns. Despite the varroa mite incursion our garden still has many busy bees for those with severe bee allergies.