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the importance of pinching out
Pinching out the main stem of a plant activates and encourages the growth of its auxiliary buds, resulting in a bushie…
seed saving - nasturtiums
Pretty pretty. Three seeds to a flower; green = still growing; brown with brain wrinkles = just about ready; brown and …
seed germination (and experimental greenhouse systems)
Germination isn't necessarily difficult, but it takes a fair amount of precision in creating just the right conditi…
native bees like daikon flowers
Native [stingless] bees, many of which to a novice looks like an ant-fly holding pollen, have been hovering around the …
radish harvest
Seeds were sowed on 11 July, harvested 50 days later (could have been harvested earlier - of the 17 radishes, a couple …
re-cultivating a scoby
Starting date: 25 August. Black tea with cane sugar, cooled, mixed with the leftovers of two store-bought Buchi kombuch…
propagation via hibiscus cutting
My hibiscus cutting rooted successfully - a nice swirl had even started at the base of the pot. How do I know this? Wel…midyim copper tops
New addition to the edible collection: Midyim berries, a native bush food that has white-grey berries. No idea what the…
chinese apple seeds
Some seeds of the most delicious types of (fushi/fuji) apples* have miraculously germinated. We ate the apples and Moth…
worm tower - trial no. 1 pt. 2
Worm Tower 1 is installed, shown below. Worm Tower 2 (located in the WTP) as well as Worm Tower 3 (located in the PSP) i…
little seed packets
I've devised a way to fold little papers into origami seed packets. It's a modified hybrid of the folding metho…
oi-ya, I made an olla
An olla is an unglazed clay pot that's buried in the soil and filled regularly with water, as a way of irrigation. …
eat my leaf
Here are a few cabbage white butterfly caterpillars that I found and left out on the grass as a gift to some lucky Will…
the real miracle berry *edit* these are actually pomegranates
Stumbled across a miracle berry tree at Southbank. There's a cute edible garden there that I completely forgot abou…
worm tower - trial no. 1
Little wormie poking through the upper bucket - good to know they're commuting between buckets (in the OG worm farm…
citron confit
I harvested a couple of lemons from this particular neighbourhood tree I've had my eyes on. These lemons are unlike…
Soil texture by feel
Useful how-to guide with flow chart for doing a quick soil test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWZwbVJCNec
daikon flowers
This is what a flowering daikon radish looks like. The distinct four-petal formation clearly show that it's from th…
tom-AY-to tom-AR-to
The lowest tomato on the strongest-growing vine is finally starting to ripen. It makes sense that they ripen one by one…
sauerpawpaw (fermented green papaya)
fermented green papaya - sounds too normal papaya-kraut - doesn't make sense (since it just means "papaya cabba…
first calendula bloom
During the daytime, the almost-neon calendula petals are fully open. It's a bit shy in the morning, though, and hid…swale pathways
Swales are ditches along the contours of a slope that catch and store water in soil, rather than let it run off down th…
water tank patch is semi-ready!
I've put up the timber+polycarbonate raised bed edging for the water tank patch (WTP). I had measured up and prepar…snake beans
Snake bean seeds have germinated and have been planted in the Pool Strip Patch. As of today and a couple of days ago.