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Wellington, NZ

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New website features (release 55)

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If you notice any bugs or think of new features please let us know on our github or comment here.

We've got new crop cards on browsing crops or a [planting](https://www.growstuff.org/plantings/shiny-indoors-tomato-75b2e492-9f71-42f6-…

radishes eggplants lettuces sunray tomatoes Te Māori taewa potatoes

New look, new features

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If you notice any bugs or think of new features please let us know on our github or comment here.

We've got new crop cards on browsing crops or a [planting](https://www.growstuff.org/plantings/shiny-indoors-tomato-75b2e492-9f71-42f6-…

sunray tomatoes lettuces radishes eggplants Te Māori taewa potatoes

Dinner from the garden

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Chicken simmered in broth and white wine,with lemon, crispy sage leaves, polenta chips with parmesan, and a salad of arugula , pear and candied walnuts.

sage lemons walnuts pears arugula

Tonight's dinner was..

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Corn beef, with whataroa potato mash, mustard sauce, and steamed spinach santana.

Whataroa taewa potato spinach Santana mustard

Pink Fir Apple potato

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'Pink Fir Apple potato' is a maincrop potato variety with pink skin and cream, waxy flesh. It has a long, knobbly shape.

Blooming colours are blue-violet, mauve taupe and light pastel purple.
Blooms are about 2.5cm in diameter at full maturity.
The flowers are in single form norm...

pink fir apple heirloom potatoes

Tales of the Robyn Adair potato

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Tales of the Robyn Adair potato

"Another potato favourite is Robin Adair, It was popular in New Zealand during the 20s-40s, and was all but lost, really, and I can't remember where I got the seed from but someone gave it to me and they have taken off here. They are…

Robyn Adair potatoes

Heirloom potatoes in "The Home Garden" from 1953

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"The Home Garden" from 1953 mentions the following Riwai/taewa

In the home garden potatoes for early planting should first be set to sprout in a light, frost free airy position. Well-sprouted tubers can be planted shallo…

Robyn Adair potatoes Te Māori taewa potatoes

Stewart Island potatoes

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Stewart island potato Found by Kay Baxter rowing wild in a clifff face along the shore on Stewart Island around 1990. It is an extremely beautiful variety similar in shape to Whataroa and Chatham Islands however this one has …

Karoro potato at Koanga Institute

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Note from Koanga institute about huakaroro taewa potato

Sent to Koanga by Rex Mundy of Kerikeri. He said it came from the Banks Peninsula, "growing there as long as the locals can remember at an isolated bay, among the boulders on the foreshore. The runners went l…

huakaroro taewa potatoes

Note from Koanga

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Growing notes for: huakaroro taewa potato

2012 - Medium height, strong top growth but very very crinkly leaves, and some yellow blotching average weight 1kg

2013 - More even line, but poor yield. …

huakaroro taewa potatoes

New action buttons

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There are five new buttons on the top of every page in Growstuff this week. They're the five most useful actions for someone tracking their garden.

"My Gardens" is where you can see what's going on in your garden, and for perennial crops, you'll see how many days to harvest, and a progress bar…

Farmbot are cool - and their icons are too

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This week I met with Rory who is the founder of FarmBot. He's offered me their CC-0 licensed icons they created. These are a dataset for their OpenFarm Project (so they're considered data, not code, so isn't in git) The icons are for a crop. e.g. one for corn, one for tomatoes

They look usefu…