Tag: vegetable gardening
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Aquaponics build #1
We’re well underway with the aquaponics build. The frame is almost done, though I couldn’t take a pic of it almost finished because it came in too dark too quickly. Jelina just managed to capture me hard at work Like so many good things, my first estimate of squeezing four tubs into the greenhouse was…
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Just a little short!
Things don’t always go to plan! There I was, putting up the plastic for the new greenhouse that will hold the aquaponics systems and I discovered that I measured about 2m short… Back to the hardware store! Bugger.
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A virtual desert!
Anyone who knows our place will know that our garden is bare….you can see the house from the street and all the summer trellis stand empty. Well, it’s all relative – we probably still have more food growing than a small suburb, but compared to the lush growth from a long summer with plenty of…
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Ready for Winter
Well…much more ready than in past years. Summer’s truly over now, here in the south of Oz. The joy of fighting through a jungle of cool, green growth will be replaced with trying to avoid the same growth, turned icy and wet. So, we’ve cleared away a lot of stuff that was starting to die…
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Goosefoot is the new Spinach
Here’s something interesting… We ignore this plant, Goosefoot (Chenopodium album) yet it contains more goodies than its relative, Spinach. I dug up a ‘weed’ from the footpath and planted it in the middle of this bed. Around it I planted more traditional vegetables and herbs, then neglected the bed, giving only a sprinkling on the…
