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Ligaya Garden
a little garden near Gawler
Tag: suburban resilience
Double duty
This cold weather, the dehydrator pulls triple duty. It dehydrates food, acts as a space heater for the house and helps to incubate my yogurt cultures. I think it was a pretty good investment all round.
Lemon guava
I thought this guava was dead over summer. It was just a few dry branches. I kept it watered just in case and now we are blessed with nearly a kilogram of fruit! Love your plants and they will provide in return.
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.… Continue Reading “Double duty”
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… Continue Reading “2 months in the straw.”
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