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Smallest viable containers for tomatoes, peppers

by Skud,

We have an over-abundance of 20cm/8" and 25cm/10" pots. I'd normally grow peppers (mostly small ones like jalapeño pepper, not huge bell pepper) in 10" pots and tomato in 12" pots. I'm wondering…

jalapeno pepper jalapeno peppers bell pepper bell peppers tomatoes
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Wanted (Australia): potimarron seeds

by Skud,

Potimarron is a small (1-2kg) pumpkin/squash that will grow up a trellis. It's available from Diggers but before I make an order for just one packet of seeds I was wondering whether anyone in Australia had any …

pumpkin pumpkins
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New features: member bio, crop wrangler homepage, some bugfixes

by Skud,

Hi everyone,

Just did a quick code push which included the following new features and bugfixes:

  • Member bios – you can now write a short bio to include on your profile page
  • Crop wrangler homepage – a handy page with info/tools for our new [crop wranglers](http://growstuff.org/posts/sk…
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Want to be a crop wrangler? We're seeking volunteers.

by Skud,

"What's a crop wrangler?" I hear you ask. Well, a crop wrangler is a Growstuff member who volunteers a little bit of time (we'd estimate an hour a month, averaged over time) to keep Growstuff's crop database up to date, make sure it has a wide variety of crops, respond to…

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Garden tour, end of winter 2013

by Skud,

I thought I'd post a tour of my garden as it currently stands at the end of winter, to act as the "before" pic in relation to the spring planting we're planning. Like all "before" photos, there's likely to be a fair bit of "ugh"… …

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Planning for spring

by Skud,

We're about a week away from the official start of spring in Melbourne, but the weather for the last month has been what the indigenous people of this area consider "pre-spring": "warming, first flowers, birds begin nesting". It's definitely a di…

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New features: redesigned homepage, API and RSS improvements

by Skud,

Hi everyone. You probably already noticed that we have a shiny new homepage. If not, check it out. Heaps of work went into discussing what was important for us to show and tell on our homepage, laying those things out on the page, and then actually building the new pag…

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Crossposting to social media using IFTTT

by Skud,

If this, then that (IFTTT) is a service that lets you glue together different online services. I just set up an IFTTT recipe to tweet whenever I post something here on Growstuff, and I'm about to set up recipes to tweet when I plant things or list seeds available for trade. I'…

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Roadmap and new features

by Skud,

The roadmap I've been talking about for weeks is complete. You can read it on the wiki.

The major areas we'll be working on are:

  • improvements to the crop pages
  • seed tracking and trading
  • improvements to how you track planting
  • im…
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Draft roadmap

by Skud,

Based on the results of the survey I posted about a week or so back, I've been working on a roadmap for our development work for the rest of 2013. If you have an interest in what features we develop for this site, check out the [draft roadmap document](http://wiki.growstuff.org/index.php/Roadmap…

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An example of "other" plantings

by Skud,

Just a note of something edible I planted, that won't ever be in our crops database, and would be a prime candidate for the "other" option we've talked about implementing: I just planted a big wide container with Diggers Club "Microgreen Winter Mix" which contains red russian kale,…

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New features: homepage improvements, add older photos, "planted from", and more

by Skud,

Jcaudle and I just pushed a bunch of new features to the site, including:

  • Improved homepage member display so the same people don't always show up (I got sick of seeing my own face there all the time!)
  • You can now add older photos from Flickr, n…
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