May 2010
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Seed Bomb Vending Machine Dispenses Guerrilla... →
Brilliant idea - round balls of seeds and clay dispensed from a vending machine, that you can use to sow plants in urban areas.
April 2010
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January 2010
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November 2009
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October 2009
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WatchTimelapse photos: the growth of Curcubit mound over the past few weeks
September 2009
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March 2009
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February 2009
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January 2009
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Drip feed spikes
Given the heatwave, it seemed a good time to try some irrigation gadgets. I bought this tomatoes hanging basket from a market, and it is desperately struggling with the heat and dries out all the time. So I’ve put a gel-spike device in it. It wasn’t very impressive: all the gel started glooping out without even having to pierce the bottle as directed. It doesn’t look like it...
Ancient herbs
The Pocket Encylopaedia of Herbs contains a lot of fascinating historical information about once commonly-used herbs that are now rare or even unknown today.
I had earlier managed to grow some Salad Burnet, which is supposed to taste like cucumber but doesn’t seem particularly noticeable when I add it to salads. I’ve been struggling to grow various other herbs, such as Lemon Basil...
Balcony garden 2009
Due to an urgent overseas trip, I had to leave the garden over December and early January. Luckily a good friend watered it for me, and everything was alive on my return.
- tomatoes ripened but lost nearly all of their leaves from the mildew
- Crookneck squash and Jack-Be-Little pumpkin struggled and are half dead
- Sweet Mama red pepper got curly wilting leaves, but has two peppers
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December 2008
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November 2008
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Pot saucers
Pot saucers are really vital. I didn’t bother to buy all the matching saucers to the pots I bought, but now I have gone back and bought loads. They retain water better, so it is available to the plant even if it has seeped through the potting compost. They keep things more humid so presumably a bit cooler when the sun is very hot. They also stop all the water from running all over the...
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My plantings on MyFolia.com
Details, notes and photos on individual plants can be found here at MyFolia.
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MyFolia.com →
Just discovered this wonderful new site called MyFolia.com for keeping a garden journal or notes about your gardening.
When you are logged in with your area set correctly, you get an instant view of what you should be sowing or transplanting or harvesting in your location.
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Burying bokashi
This is bokashi. It’s a method of fermenting household waste using an air-tight bucket and sprinkling in bran containing helpful micro-organisms. Once the bucket is full, you wait a few weeks and then bury your bokashi in the ground. About six weeks later you can dig it up, and it’s perfect compost: the fermentation has accelerated a process which might otherwise take a year. You...
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“The City of Sydney council has commissioned a report to look at ways to...”
– Sydney Morning Herald, 12/10/2008
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Balcony gardening gallery →
High res versions of all my balcony garden pics. Useful if you want to compare how your seedlings look at certain ages. Click and press “i” to see the photo info and date taken.
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Wikipedia: Urban agriculture →
Useful backgrounder
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The Digger's Club →
This is where most of the seed came from. Like Tom and Barbara, they were doing it back in the seventies.
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Welcome to The Good Life 2.0
Tom and Barbara did it in the 70s.
Now we all need to do it to stay alive. Probably.
This tumblelog will be about urban gardening and urban sustainability.
Even if it’s all a crock of nothing, at least I’ll have some nice tomatoes.