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An overview of my home and garden automation setup

by CloCkWeRX,

I have:

Home Assistant
Sonoff Zigbee Irrigation Controllers - significantly cheaper and just darned well work, compared …

Hello from Stuttgart, Germany

by BulkSeedsIntl,

Hello everyone,

I'm Steffen from Stuttgart in southern Germany. I work with seeds every day and I'm also a beekeeper, so I'm always interested in plants that are good for both the vegetable patch and the bees.

I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone is growing. One question to start: which …

new feature: rain and temperature data on your plantings

by shiny,

If you have a location set for the garden, the plantings will show historical rain and temperature data

plantings emails fixed

by shiny,

a bug in the sending of plantings reminders has been fixed, so some users will be getting their first reminder email after a long pause

Today's book from the garden reading chair - The oats, pears, beans, & barley cookbook

by shiny,

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I have so many grains growing in the garden, it's time to learn the old recipes on how to cook these. This book was published in 1960 and i found it in a second hand store

Stretch before digging, because your lazy bones are too old for sudden physical labour

by CloCkWeRX,

I just spent about an hour reviving this bed, and once the enthusiasm wore off about 20 minutes in began to feel every shovel full.

Remember, IT workers of the world, *stretch before exertion or you'll regret it as I do now…

Ode to the bunnings sausage

by shiny,

Glorious reward for gardening chores.

Tonic wines - reading in the garden.

by shiny,

Found this old book in a back country second hand store. It was published in 1960, it was part of a series of "know how" books.

inside is every kind of wine. I think the author was in the UK, and many of the plants are the same ones introduced here and thrive in our New Zealand climate.

these i…

Last year I got a chainsaw for Christmas, and it was the best gadget - I cut back trees; I cut down trees. I let the light into the garden. I found my own firewood for use in the pizza oven, the smoker, the outdoor bathtub heater, and the fire pit.

But all those branches had to go somewhere. So …