Ligaya Garden

May 6, 2015

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. In this way, the electricity used for the cooking is used…

May 5, 2015

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 dry, ready for the taking. I dug up about 10 kilos…

May 5, 2015

Somebodys got the right idea.

This wind turbine in a rural community is doing more to mitigate climate change than our current government has since they have been in office.

May 4, 2015

Quick and nasty solar oven.

Today I needed to defrost 250g of mincemeat. Rather than use the convection oven, I decided to make up a quick solar cooker to do the job. Looking around, I found a couple of aluminium trays and an oven bag. To assemble this project, I positioned the foil trays so one was flat and one…

May 1, 2015

2 months in the straw.

My straw bale garden. It’s 2 months old today and rocking along. in it are 2 kinds of Chinese cabbage, silver beet, kale and a sweet potato for luck. Growth is OK and pests are minimal. The white plastic bag on a stick moves with the wind, creating movement and noise. It has successfully frightened…