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Thanks for the energy!

Had these two beauties given to us the other day. They’re from Steve Zilm from Install-X ( yeah, I know it’s a plug, but I’m grateful). They were going to be dumped because the glass has been badly cracked, but they’re at our place now. As they are, not cleaned they sit in the morning sun producing…

Goosefoot is the new Spinach

Here’s something interesting… We ignore this plant, Goosefoot (Chenopodium album) yet it contains more goodies than its relative, Spinach. I dug up a ‘weed’ from the footpath and planted it in the middle of this bed. Around it I planted more traditional vegetables and herbs, then neglected the bed, giving only a sprinkling on the…

Mycelia from Slape’s

I got two kinds of mushroom spawn, Blue and White Oysters, from Slape’s Mushroom House a couple of weekends ago. The mycelia are growing well, covering the straw at the top of the bags and slowly moving south. About a month from now we should be tucking into some fresh mushrooms!

4 magic squares

The demise of the big wicking bed has left me with enough material to make 4 square beds of about 1m a side. I’m interested in getting a perpetual rotation going using the four beds. I’ve rarely set aside specific areas for specific veggies, but as we’re looking to producing quality surplus this year, I…

Joys of wicking

So….Jelina wanted a raised bed for kitchen veggies, and Marlon agreed to cook with more, so it seemed a great time to make a really big wicking bed. I had enough roofing steel to make the sides of a 1.8m x 900 x 900 bed, had some 50 x 50mm square fence post cut to…