Author: ligayagardener
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Double duty
This cold weather, the dehydrator pulls triple duty. It dehydrates food, acts as a space heater for the house and helps to incubate my yogurt cultures. I think it was a pretty good investment all round.
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Lemon guava
I thought this guava was dead over summer. It was just a few dry branches. I kept it watered just in case and now we are blessed with nearly a kilogram of fruit! Love your plants and they will provide in return.
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My first strawbale garden veggies.
The veggies in the straw bale garden are rocketing along. There’s even enough to share with the slugs! Pic 2 shows one of the benefits of using pea straw… free peas! Everything’s settled in after 2 -3 months, we have green veg leaves, kombucha, both water and milk kefir, the worms are a breeding and…
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Double duty
Marlon’s improvised defroster…an upturned metal collander that fits snugly onto our slow cooker. This captures and uses waste heat from the cooker, not that the heat is really wasted at this time of year – it contributes a little to keeping the house warm. In this way, the electricity used for the cooking is used…
