Tag: Sustainability
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Lotsa baby snails…
Looks like the aquatic snails have been having fun. Lots of eggs under the Styrofoam harvesting floats is a good sign. I’m breeding them in otherwise unused tubs so that they can give the chooks a little extra meat and calcium. Maybe I can flog a few off too when I have enough. I got…
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My newest endeavour… Isopod breeding.
My newest endeavour… Isopod breeding. You probably can’t see them in the pic but these containers have 2 different types of Isopod in them. I’m trying to breed them for 2 reasons. First, because the chooks love them. Second, because they are crustaceans, not insects and are related to and taste like shrimp. Yes, they’re…
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Bubblewrapping the tropicals
A couple of our heat loving plants are suffering a bit in the cold. I was thinking about what to do about it, having moved them several times into warmer microclimates to no avail. I thought about buying some greenhouse plastic, then remembered that I had a heap of bubblewrap salvaged from an art gallery…
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A tale of roadside lust…
Can you feel the love in this picture? The couple in the photo were just ‘getting it on’ regardless of the hundreds of passers-by. I often say that ‘gardening is all about sex’. That’s not just true about gardening but the whole of nature and this couple definitely agree! What am I talking about? Not…
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King Stropharia workshop at Slape’s Mushroom House
Had a great day on Saturday. I attended a workshop about growing King Stropharia mushrooms in the garden at Slape’s Mushroom House It was a hell of a wet day and the hour or so drive to Warradale was pretty scary… I realized I hadn’t been to that part of town for about 30 years!…
