shiny posts

this is one way to amuse us while in nationwide pandemic lock down

Miss 10 made this artwork, as a concept our new logo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7CiGyqLdu8

Recipe for kamokamo fritters

This plant wants to take over the world. It's that pink ginger you get with sushi. It is pretty magical. It's not the root like regular ginger. Instead, you harvest the pink flower and the pickle it. That why the sushi ginger looks like a pink petal. It is a petal.

I have constrained thi…

The Island Bay tomato plants have been finally turning red. I only got 5 seeds last year, and these sprouted into three plants. - which are now giving huge fruit.

I made some tomato sauce out of these. They're great raw but they are definitely good for sauce too….

I left two artichokes, to see how big they'd get. Well, they are enormous. This bumblebee really appreciated them and spent about half an hour feasting on the nectar.

[artichoke](/crops/artich…

What's better than Brussel sprouts? Home-grown Brussels Sprouts grown by robots.

The automation (aka Robots) I'm using is an open source app called "Home Assistant". It runs nicely on a raspberry pi, but I'm running it on an old laptop, which is ve…

Potatoes and taewa

This year i grew ELEVEN types of potato over summer..

Waiporoporo Taewa Potato that were [ready early](/plantings/shiny-front-lawn-pots-an…

better late than never – i've set up the irrigation to use a raspberry pi, so i can finally adhere to the odds/evens date rules that so much of NZ uses but no automated system sold here can handle. Have to have a whole calendar system in your micro to be able to handle it.

the rules are: …

First time I've successful grown egg plants and the first time I've made moussaka. It took an hour to make it, and another hour of baking.

I had some Urenika Taewa Potato and Stewart island potato already sprouting at the end of last summer - and instead of leaving these rare potatoes to rot, I put them into the soil They're both known to grow in the cold south, so they s…

We've had heaps of rain. The area flooded. Also the radishes split.