Tag: Sustainability
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Mycelia from Slape’s
I got two kinds of mushroom spawn, Blue and White Oysters, from Slape’s Mushroom House a couple of weekends ago. The mycelia are growing well, covering the straw at the top of the bags and slowly moving south. About a month from now we should be tucking into some fresh mushrooms!
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4 magic squares
The demise of the big wicking bed has left me with enough material to make 4 square beds of about 1m a side. I’m interested in getting a perpetual rotation going using the four beds. I’ve rarely set aside specific areas for specific veggies, but as we’re looking to producing quality surplus this year, I…
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Joys of wicking
So….Jelina wanted a raised bed for kitchen veggies, and Marlon agreed to cook with more, so it seemed a great time to make a really big wicking bed. I had enough roofing steel to make the sides of a 1.8m x 900 x 900 bed, had some 50 x 50mm square fence post cut to…
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Dad’s still growing
Dad’s continues to outperform everyone we know on the eggplant front. We bought two Lebanese eggplants for him to help get him back into gardening while Mum was very sick. He always loved his garden, having at one time bred Fuschias. Now he outdoes us every time, with a couple of kilos every week. What’s…
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Another edible addition to next year’s garden
Today’s Blackberry Nightshade (Solanum nigrum) harvest…336 juicy grams! That’s what’s left after some were squashed, some eaten, some dropped, some eaten…You get the picture. We have almost as many on the bush but they’re still green (i.e a bit toxic). Now that we’ve decided to grow it as a fruit and I’ve watched it through…
