Category: Gardening

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.

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,… Continue Reading “My first strawbale garden veggies.”

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.… Continue Reading “Double duty”

Pigeon poo is free.

I’m always on the lookout for free stuff. My search for fertilizer lead me to a local bridge that was home to hundreds of pigeons. I thought ‘where there’s pigeons there must be pigeon poo’ and there was. Tons of it, all nice and… Continue Reading “Pigeon poo is free.”

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