Tag: technology
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Spirulina: update
The Spirulina culture is coming along nicely. It’s been moved to its final position in the laundry, next to the apple cider vinegar. We got some nice little indoor grow lamps from Bunnings for the plants in the lounge and I just had to have one for the Spirulina. Now the little algae population has…
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Phil’s sand mini-wicking beds
I was visiting our friend Phil last weekend at his home. While I was there, he showed me an interesting take on the wicking bed idea. Phil’s idea is to use shallow trays of sand to raise seeds and seedlings using the basic design of wicking beds. You can see the concept in action in…
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Mealworm Madness #5
As you can see from the pic above, it’s time to clean out the Mealworm Palace. The fine powdery stuff in the pic is called ‘frass’ and it’s what we call the leftovers after insects (in this case Mealworms) have eaten. It also includes other waste materials that we won’t go into here. You might…
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Comfrey composter update.
The leftovers.Well, it’s been about a month, so I wanted to check out what was happening inside of the Comfrey Compost Tea Maker that I posted about in January. The tea maker was made from 90mm PVC pipe, 1 metre long. I packed it tightly with Comfrey leaves and, over the month, got just over 200ml of…
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(Bubble) wrapping your windows in Summertime
Bubble wrap can be easily applied to windows as insulation. A while ago, I wrote a post called ‘Bubble Wrap Insulation‘. That post was aimed at keeping the Winter cold out and our precious heat in but as its been so hot here lately, I thought I’d measure the difference it made on…
