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Through the roof!
Google said it was 37°C at midday, and who are we to argue? After all the changes weve made to the house to compensate for the hot weather, I thought I’d check some key points with my trusty temperature gun (in the pic above). For the record, we had: 22 on the interior walls 24…
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Our Jujube is flowering
Tiny Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) flowers on our tree. I’ve been looking for a tree for a couple of years and swapped something with the kind folks at Joe’s Connected Garden earlier this year. I know I say it about almost everything, but Jujube are my favourite fruit!
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Lots of fun today!
Your’s truly made a bit of a carry on about edible and medicinal weeds today at the Gawler Sustainable Living Festival this morning. All the plants I spoke about were harvested from the roadside in between our house and the fair. I wanted to let folks know that this stuff is really out there at…
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New aquaponics bed
We’ve finally filled the 4th bed in our aquaponics system! We can segregate the plants a little more now. Theres one bed for Warrigal Greens, one for River Mint, the third is for Kangkong and the last is Sweet Potato (for the delicious leaves). The next goals are to connect up the NFT table (it…
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Aircon for the chooks
It gets hot here in Oz in Summer, so I thought I’d give the girls a little treat. They like sitting under the rain tank next to the chook run on hotter days, so I helped them out by placing a fan under their house that would blow cool, moist air through their run. It’s…
Ligaya Garden
a little garden near Gawler
