Tag: experiments
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We’re having babies!
Hopefully lots and lots! Baby mushrooms that is… A while back, I did a workshop at Slape’s Mushroom House and learned all about growing King Stropharia mushrooms in the garden. When I was there I bought a bunch of Blue Oyster grain spawn that I added to pasturize sugar came mulch and jammed it into…
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Improving the aquaponics filters
For a while I’ve been using the white wool filter material in the filters on the media beds. This stuff is really only for small applications like indoor aquariums so keeps clogging up and compressing. That means that the water just runs off of the top of the compressed material and doesn’t filter. Sooo Im…
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Something strange over the garden
After the success of the plastic Owl in the backyard, I decided to go one step further and grab us a flying one. These are quite a clever design, essentially they’re a plastic Owl head on a windsock with wings that stretch a metre wide. I’ve installed it on a 4 metre length of electrical…
