Category: Gardening

• Ligaya Gardening Tips #9 Changing tactics for watering

  

  As the climate warms, rain patterns are changing. That means more opportunities for gardeners to adapt their watering tactics.

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  July 31, 2021

  Gardening, Water

  climate change, Gardening, global heating, Ligaya gardening tips, microbes, mulch, rain, runoff, soil, spring, stormwater, Sustainability, Watering, winter

• Australasian Poultry

  

  We’ve a little article in the current Australasian Poultry magazine. It’s about our chickens, how we keep them healthy and how they’re integrated into so many aspects of Ligaya Garden.

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  July 30, 2021

  chickens, Publications

  Australasian Poultry magazine, chickens, Chooks, Grass Roots, grass roots magazine, healthy chickens, our flock, publication, published

• 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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  July 27, 2021

  Composting, DIY, fertilizer

  compost, compost tea, compost tea press, DIY, fertilizer, liquid fertilizer

• 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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  July 21, 2021

  Composting, fertilizer, liquid composting, Reuse/Recycle, worms

  biodegradable, compost, compost worms, DIY, FAA, fermentation, fertilizer, fish amino acid, home compostable, mineral supplements, plastic, reduce reuse recycle, worm castings, worm farm, worm wee, worms

• The big cover-up

  

  Too much rain has been overflowing the aquaponics and starving plants of nutrients. It’s been flooding the backyard too. A big cover-up is in order.

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  July 19, 2021

  Aquaponics, DIY, fertilizer, fish

  Aquaponics, climate change, DIY, fertilizer, goldfish, green house, greenhouse, plastic, plastic free july, rain, retrofit, stormwater, winter