How does your garden grow?

The Kitchen Garden. Pugh’s Almanac was the search engine of the emerging colony of Queensland. One could turn to Pugh’s to settle a dinner-table dispute as to the exact date of Emperor Maximilian’s shooting (19 June 1867), find the best navigation route for Bustard’s Bay, and locate an official stamp vendor in North Brisbane. AndContinue reading “How does your garden grow?”

Before there was Google, there was Pugh’s Almanac.

Want to know what happened on this day in history? The office bearers of the Ancient Order of Foresters, Court Fortitude, No. 2701 (Fortitude Valley) for a particular year? What to plant in one’s kitchen garden in August? The signals in use at the Brisbane Signal Station for a vessel from the New Hebrides? WhenContinue reading “Before there was Google, there was Pugh’s Almanac.”