Plants & Produce
Building a Greenhouse
My ideal glasshouse is a near-free upcycled style utilising old wooden windows and building walls...
In the microgeens garden
I started an indoor garden as a hobby during the New Zealand lockdown, and continued to develop...
Jan 2021: Happening in the garden
The garden continues to produce a variety of crops, we’ve discovered a few hidden gems and a positive lack of negative bugs, however we wonder where they are.
Water catchment
Having arranged the water storage for garden use, I noticed that there were other down pipes that...
Water storage
With our summer looming and the cost of domestic water increasing we have been increasing the...
Crop planting
It’s October and I have started planting out a row of various crops at the Springston patch....
Preparing for summer crops
Trying hard not to count our pumpkins before they develop we have started to sow seeds in our grow...
Springston patch planting
Today I visited the plot of land that we've been allocated. The ground is well compacted and...
Springston soil review
We visited the patch of land that we have access to in Springston today and started to plan the...
Springston regenerative conversion
The opportunity we have is that there is an unused patch of land that we have requested access to...
Regenerative farm approaches – great to see change
On our home plot and on other plots we have been investigating what little we can do to stimulate...
Spreading the love – comfrey tea
We chopped and stewed comfrey leaves about three months ago, and the resulting rotted down slime...
July: Weeding time
It is always a good time for weeding, or as we like to call it thining. In our raised garden beds,...
Day 10: Microgreens trial
The growing environment is working out well, which we are quite happy about, the cost of running...
Day 9: Microgreens trial
The trial is going well, we’re learning what we might have done wrong – and we’re planning what other experiments we can do to make improvements.
Day 8: Microgreens trial
Frosty morning outside today but our indoor environment is working well, the temperature remained above 16ºC overnight at an RH of 53%.
Day 7: Microgreens trial – 6th morning
Last night we decided to take the covers off some of the more rapidly growing micro-green seed varieties, and we also started our second trial.
Day 6: Microgreens trial – 5th morning
We are really amazed at how the different varieties, although it is written on the packets, take to move through their various stages.