Category: Gardening
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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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Gifts from (slightly) above
Having wild birds around can bring mixed benefits. We reckon there’s more positive than negative aspects of having thema round. Ligaya Garden is a living ecosystem and they have their place.
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Tall trees
Things are always evolving at Ligaya Garden. When we started Ligaya Garden, we had no protection from the Sun on a Summer afternoon. To get relief from that, we planted our row of deciduous trees and let them grow really tall. We do lose some of the fruit every year to the birds but its…
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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…
