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Our Vegetable Plots #5

20 May 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Emerald Witch

Growing Our Own Part 5   Another day on the farm and everything is looking good.     I think this is a marigold, if it is it's doing better than the others.     Not sure what this is but it's planted where a lot of things are planted like carrot,...

Our Vegetable Plots #4

19 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Emerald Witch

Growing Our Own Part 4     The peas are looking so much better after their seaweed bath and they feel so much stronger.     These were the peas last week before their spa treatment 👆🏻     And this is them today after a week with the seaweed and...

Defending against the Knotweed King... also weather.

16 May 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Dibbler

This morning I woke up fairly early, made myself a coffee while Sky and Elizabeth still slept, and sat for a moment behind the house enjoying the early morning heat. The sky was a clear deep blue with just a couple of clouds to the south, the sun...

Our Vegetable Plots #3

14 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Emerald Witch

Growing Our Own Part 3   We spread the seaweed over our plot and we definitely underestimated how much seaweed to get but it did the job.     I think we were supposed to wash the seaweed first 🤫 we'll do that the next time.     The bulk went on...

Making Our Own Fertiliser #1

13 May 2021 1 minute read 3 comments Emerald Witch

Collecting Seaweed For Fertiliser     We went to our local beach, which is just a 5 minute drive from the farm to collect seaweed.     I thought we were going to have to walk around for a while looking for seaweed, a bit of an adventure for our tod...

Of Cucumbers and Cucamelons

13 May 2021 6 minute read 0 comments clubby

Of Cucumbers and Cucamelons Effects from Oilist app (iPhone) Cucumbers (Cucumus sativus) Cucumbers are a creeping vine plant with broad, coarse leaves  that is frost-sensitiv...

On Deeper Roots II

13 May 2021 7 minute read 0 comments clubby

On Deeper Roots II On Root Vegetables - On Beets & 'Bagas Root vegetables have gone from being staple crops that kept us from starving during the cold winter months in generatio...

Our Vegetable Plots #2

12 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Emerald Witch

Growing Our Own Part 2 Our peas are looking a bit depressed so we are going to go to the beach tomorrow and collect seaweed and hopefully that will give the peas a well needed boost and it's also an excuse to go to the beach with our boys.          ...

Week In Review Skybuds Grow room

11 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments skylinebuds

If you don't follow me on HIVE you likely don't follow my new grow series. I have been working on bringing a new grow video out daily. The idea behind this is to log my organic autoflower grow. I am going to leave a recap of the last 5 episodes and t...

On Growing Tomatoes

10 May 2021 11 minute read 1 comment clubby

Tomatoes (Solanum lycoperiscum) While we eat tomatoes as a vegetable most often, they are botanically classified as a berry so they are technically a fruit. First thought to be domesticated in Mexico, the...