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Japanese ginger.
by shiny,
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 this [myoga…
myoga ginger
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Tomato relish from local heirlooms
by shiny,
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 u…
Island Bay tomatoes
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the bumble bee appreciates this artichoke
by shiny,
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.
artichokes
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Automating the seedlings
by shiny,
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 very convenient due to t…
brussels sprouts
lettuces
coriander
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The year of the potatoes
by shiny,
This year i grew ELEVEN types of potato over summer..
Waiporoporo Taewa Potato that were [ready early](/plantings/shiny-front-lawn-pots-an…
pink fir apple potatoes
moemoe taewa potatoes
scots potatoes
Te Māori taewa potatoes
huakaroro taewa potatoes
purple heart potatoes
agria potatoes
waiporoporo taewa potatoes
Stewart island potatoes
urenika taewa potatoes
Whataroa taewa potato
Robyn Adair potatoes
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setting up the irrigation
by shiny,
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: * od…
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I made moussaka
by shiny,
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.
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overwintering the taewa
by shiny,
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 shoul…
Stewart island potatoes
urenika taewa potatoes
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Radish split after too much rain.
by shiny,
We've had heaps of rain. The area flooded. Also the radishes split.
radishes
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TODO List
by shiny,
- 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…
peas
painted mountain corn
rhubarb
boysenberries
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peas
Feature ideas - Planting out. User-defined plant names.
by bigblen,
BTW I'm happy to create github issues if this is preferred?
1) I create some crops when I plant seeds in trays etc. Some time later, they have turned into seedlings. I guess I can edit the entries to change the location from 'containers' to 'garden'. But perhaps a "Plant Out" action would b…
