Category: Composting
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New compost tea presses ready to go!
I spent part of yesterday afternoon whipping up two new 100 mm compost tea presses. They’re ready now to mount and make rich, nettle tea.
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Cleaning out the worms
Every so often, the worms get a thorough clean out. Athena helps me as much as she can as we harvest all of the goodness created by some of the hardest workers at Ligaya Garden.
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Soil gold
It’s time to add a heap of organic material to the front garden and to think about laying in supplies for the rest of the year.
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Training the Oysters to eat dog poo
We’re getting lots of spent grain and woodchip spawn from Danny at Barossa Gourmet Mushrooms and have been building it up in piles around the garden. We’re benefitting from an extra flush of mushrooms and the critters in the garden are feasting madly on the mycelium, breaking it down into nutrients that the plants can…
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Fermented Fish Extract Update.
It’s been more than three months since the last batch of Fermented Fish Extract (FEE) ferment was put down. The first of December 2020, in fact. So I thought it would be interesting to see if it’s ready. It usually takes about 4 months and others have said that it can take up to 6…
