by shiny,
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 …
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Pl@ntNet is part of the GBIF network and creates a data commons for citizen scientists to document and collate their world.
They could use a few dollars, if you appreciate the imagery on Growstuff, consider donating to keep the wider …
by shiny,
beautiful black rich compost.
by shiny,
New feed of user's garden actions is now live as "My friends and neighbours". Please let us know how it's working out for you.
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Last year, before i bought a still, i tried freeze-distilling. This is an old method of turning apple cider into apple sprit, that does not need a still. Traditionally the apple cider still in the fermenting barrel is taken outside to the snow. There the water will freeze over night. In the morni…
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A whole year of growing, digging, fermenting, and canning eventually comes down to a shelf. Here's what was actually on it, as of early July:
Pantry - 2× pasta sauce - 14× tomato sauce - 4× tomato paste - 3× (huge) jars of pears with cardamom - 4× beef bone broth - 2× rendered lard - About 1…
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Autumn is when the garden hands over the last of what it's got, and the cider press comes back out.
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If this year's harvest had a main character, it was tomatoes. Here's how it went, roughly day by day.
Early January was all impatience. The tomatoes just needed consistent days over 22°C to actually ripen, and Wellington — as Wellington does — wasn't cooperating. "Come on #Wellingt…
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By November the garden stopped being a promise and started being an actual source of food again.
I saw a strawberry wine idea online somewhere and decided it was now a mission. It went straight onto the to-do list alongside dress rehearsals and concerts: harvest b…
by CloCkWeRX,
In a recent release, we've added links to youtube videos covering the core aspects of growing a number of crops; as well as displaying the parent attributes of a variety when no more specific information is known.
If you are a creator or know someone who provides clear, useful content; submit a …
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It's spring again, which means it's time to look back at what an entire year of "grow it, ferment it, preserve it" actually looked like — starting last August, when none of this year's harvest existed yet, just seedlings, hail, and a lot of hope.
