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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 [myo...

myoga ginger

Tomato relish from local heirlooms

by shiny,

The [Island Bay tomato](crop) 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 used the "fast/slow...

Island Bay tomatoes

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.  [artichoke](crop)

artichokes

Automating the seedlings

by shiny,

What's better than Brussel sprouts? Home-grown [Brussels Sprouts](crop) 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 the backup pow...

coriander brussels sprouts lettuces

The year of the potatoes

by shiny,

[Potatoes and taewa](https://flic.kr/p/2ioVEEy)  This year i grew ELEVEN types of potato over summer.. [Waiporoporo Taewa Potato](crop) that were [ready early](/plantings/shiny-front-lawn-pots-and-potato...

urenika taewa potatoes Stewart island potatoes Whataroa taewa potato Robyn Adair potatoes pink fir apple heirloom potatoes moemoe taewa potatoes scots potatoes Te Māori taewa potatoes huakaroro taewa potatoes purple heart potatoes agria potatoes waiporoporo taewa potatoes

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: ...

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.

overwintering the taewa

by shiny,

I had some [Urenika Taewa Potato](crop) and [Stewart island potato](crop) 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 should have been okay in Poneke winter. Th...

urenika taewa potatoes Stewart island potatoes

Radish split after too much rain.

by shiny,

We've had heaps of rain. The area flooded. Also the [radish](crop)es split.

radishes

TODO List

by shiny,

1. DONE plant [Painted Mountain Corn](crop) in the Big Sunny Bed 1. DONE Plant the 2 potted [sunflowers](crop) into the front garden 1. DONE Plant more sun flowers out in the north garden 1. DONE Harvest the [boysenberry](crop) soon 1. SINE6String the [peas](crop) up on the frame. 1. DONE ha...

painted mountain corn peas boysenberries rhubarb

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...

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