Blue Wolf Reviews

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  • Conversations With My Vegetable Garden: Growing Vegetables With The Help Of The Vegetable Garden Fairies

    Conversations With My Vegetable Garden: Growing Vegetables With The Help Of The Vegetable Garden Fairies

    For those of us who love our gardens chatting to your plants is not all that unusual, but it took Sarah Rajkotwala spending the time to document many of her conversations with her garden, sharing the wisdom that is to be discovered if only we choose to listen, to bring this skill to our attention.

     Her third book Conversations with my Vegetable Garden is based on the world that is to be discovered in her rather large vegetable garden on her property in rural South Australia. Having initially begun gardening in the traditional manner she soon discovered that when areas where left alone they developed some very surprising results, all to the positive.

    As she had spent time talking with and documenting other sections of her garden it seemed logical to once again tune into what the garden fairies were trying to impart. Once again her chief fairies’ adviser Gentica came to assist and share her eternal wisdom.

    Pages are filled with information offered as to the best way to get the fullest benefit out of your planting, which vegetables are best grown for their energetic qualities, some serious information as to the effect of people on the planet and how change can be encouraged for long term benefit.

     The information shared via the ‘vegie patch’ is very practical and makes complete sense, but it is reassuring to know. Along with the innate spiritual wisdom that is offered, are also some very good tips on growing vegetables, what to allow to go to seed and what to encourage for best results in your gardening.

    Sarah talks about her garden as the month’s flow throughout the year, her success and failures and some of the very interesting results she has achieved by listening to and working with her fairies’ advisers, which for any gardener will prove to be irresistibly well worth trying in their own garden.

    The final section is dedicated to a list of common garden vegetables, their key features, energetic qualities, companion plants/planting and nutritional qualities, along with what particular plant they dislike being grown near.

    Enjoy learning much from Conversations with my Vegetable Garden and then reap the rewards with vegetables that are happy, healthy and a real pleasure to enjoy.

  • My Dog is a Winner

    My Dog is a Winner

    When Eric comes across his big, mean sister in tears, and then to top it all off, a few days later dancing about in her room with her teddy bear, he realises that although Gretchen is twenty years old, she needs some help to get out a bit more, to start being nicer to people, mainly him and Ugly, but what to do is the big question.

    Eric, otherwise known as Ec or Eccles and Ugly, his big, wonderful, companion dog, and all round most wonderful dog ever, are back in their latest adventure, My Dog is a Winner but could this big hearted pair be facing their biggest challenge yet, as Gretchen really would have to be the hardest person to try and help, without making it look like they are trying to help!

    But Ec is not going to let this stop him and Ugly trying to make her a lot happier and as Ugly is a companion dog, full of empathy for those in distress, he wants to use his wonderful canine instincts to help Gretchen feel better and not so terribly sad.

    A meeting of Ec and his friends to discuss the best way forward sees a plan devised to not only help Gretchen, but also help Ugly and all his other doggy friends in the neighbourhood. As the plan needs the permission of the local Council, Eric and his grandfather need to go to a meeting with the Mayor to see if the Council will let Ec and his friends turn a local park into an off-leash park for dogs?

    If that was not enough Eric realises that Ugly is not feeling too well, and seems to be suffering depression or Compassion Fatigue, as not only is Ugly the best dog in the world, he also works at the school as a companion dog, comforting Barnaby and now Maryam and listening to lots of the other children reading. No wonder he is feeling down!

    Amongst everything going on in his life at the moment there is the Blue Ribbon event, annual Pet Show  at the school Fete and Ec feels totally convinced Ugly is going to win every category, grooming him, making him special smoothies and rehearsing with him over and over to make sure Ugly will do everything perfectly on the day.

    My Dog is a Winner is a warm hearted story about caring, compassion, friendship and helping others by being kind, thoughtful and understanding; also about how sometimes, life does not always turn out as planned and being a true hero is not about how many medals we may win in life, or at the school Fete!