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time to compost

by shiny,

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

pumpkins corn

Three Rare heirlooms - Island bay tomatoes

by shiny,

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 Italy. At...

Island Bay tomatoes

Pōhutukawa shade

by shiny,

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.

by shiny,

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

burst of growstuff features

by shiny,

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 ideas ov...

Taewa (Pre-european potato)

by shiny,

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](crop) is a distant cousin of the potato. Both the taewa and the kūmara come from South America. Where and ...

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

Followed member timelines are live

by shiny,

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

New website features (release 55)

by shiny,

If you notice any bugs or think of new features please let us know on [our github](https://github.com/issues) or comment here. We've got new crop cards on [browsing crops](https://growstuff.org/crops) or a [planting](https://www.growstuff.org/plantings/shiny-indoors-tomato-75b2e492-9f71-42f6-...

lettuces eggplants Te Māori taewa potatoes sunray tomatoes radishes

Forum spam?

by bigblen,

I'm very new here - the second thing I notice is some spam in these forums, promoting pest exterminators. Is there any way to flag these. I know that moderating the forum would be a PITA for little reward...

New look, new features

by shiny,

If you notice any bugs or think of new features please let us know on [our github](https://github.com/issues) or comment here. We've got new crop cards on [browsing crops](https://growstuff.org/crops) or a [planting](https://www.growstuff.org/plantings/shiny-indoors-tomato-75b2e492-9f71-42f6-...

Te Māori taewa potatoes lettuces radishes eggplants sunray tomatoes

Upload pictures

by ybvb,

I just noticed that you need a Flickr account to post pictures. Would be awesome if there is an option to use pixelfed for the people using that free open source and federated platform. Just leaving here the idea...

Map not showing properly

by ybvb,

Just wanted to report a bug in the map, as it is not showing up when I open it (tested on android, Linux and Windows using Firefox). Not sure if anyone else noticed the same thing...