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Wellington, NZ

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TODO List

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DONE plant Painted Mountain Corn in the Big Sunny Bed
DONE Plant the 2 potted sunflowers into the front garden
DONE Plant more sun flowers out in the north garden
DONE Harvest the boysenberry soon
SINE6String the [peas](/crops/p…

painted mountain corn rhubarb peas boysenberries

time to compost

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If you grow a pumpkin underneath your corn then now's a good time to shovel on some extra compost, or add fertilizer. Both these plants really like lots of fertilizer.

corn pumpkins

Three Rare heirlooms - Island bay tomatoes

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I'm growing a precious heirloom. The Island Bay tomatoes have a tale behind their journey to me. Some of the first Italian immigrants to this country settled in nearby Island Bay.

They'd concluded the tomatoes available in Aotearoa were not the tomatoes they knew and remembered from Ita…

Island Bay tomatoes

Pōhutukawa shade

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The vege garden in the back yard has fed us for four years but now the pōhutukawa tree in the street to the North has grown huge and now we have no sun.

This weekend i set up three raised beds in the front lawn, and carted about eight wheel barrow loads of soil.

I've planted some of our po…

New feature, fav/like any photo.

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Send some appreciation to anyone (or yourself) by tapping the heart ♥ beside a photo title.

burst of growstuff features

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I've broken my ankle. Spectacular. I'm on holiday, house sitting, in a town without much public transport.

one result of this is, I've tackled some of the bigger growstuff feature requests.

One big feature, that would be useful to me, is getting trades working better. I asked for i…

Taewa (Pre-european potato)

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Generally, "Taewa" is the term used for potatoes that have been in New Zealand since before 1800, and cultivated by Maori people - but the word can be used for all potatoes.

The kūmara is a distant cousin of the potato. Both the ta…

kūmara waiporoporo taewa potatoes urenika taewa potatoes Te Māori taewa potatoes Whataroa taewa potato

Followed member timelines are live

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I've just released the member time line functionality. You can find it here: https://www.growstuff.org/timeline It's also in the top right buttons, looks like a calendar.