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Some of our crops

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nasturtium

Tropaeloum spp.
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coconut

Cocos nucifera
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rainbow chard

Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris
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elephant garlic

Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum
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Phureja

Solanum phureja
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Swiss chard

Beta vulgaris var. cicla
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Wild Garlic

Allium ursinum
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kabocha

Cucurbita maxima
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cress

curly cress
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basil beebalm

Monarda clinopodioides
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almond

Prunus dulcis
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apple

Malus domestica
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raspberry

Rubus idaeus
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brandywine tomato

Solanum lycopersicum
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opalka tomato

Solanum lycopersicum
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miro

prumnopitys ferruginea
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Seeds available to trade

cantaloupe

cantaloupe

seeds saved by dewanto
Yogyakarta

tomato

tomato

seeds saved by why

1 seeds
  • certified organic
  • heirloom

habanero pepper

habanero pepper

seeds saved by CloCkWeRX
Rosewater,...

20 seeds

cucumber

cucumber

seeds saved by peterstoops
Brooseinde...

sunflower

sunflower

seeds saved by lejun
Besançon

50 seeds
  • non-certified organic
  • hybrid

coriander

coriander

seeds saved by Storm
Portland,...

  • non-certified organic
  • non-certified GMO-free
  • heirloom

pumpkin

pumpkin

seeds saved by Storm
Portland,...

  • non-certified organic
  • non-certified GMO-free
  • heirloom

smallage

smallage

seeds saved by Storm
Portland,...

  • certified organic
  • certified GMO-free
  • heirloom

Island Bay tomato

Island Bay tomato

seeds saved by shiny
Wellington, NZ

500 seeds
  • heirloom

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Recent posts

What's in the larder

by shiny,

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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Pumpkins, kumara, and pressing this year's cider

by shiny,

Autumn is when the garden hands over the last of what it's got, and the cider press comes back out.

The last of the harvest

  • Mar 26 — still harvesting.
  • Apr 6 — some whataroa harvested.
  • Apr 19 — risotto for dinner, made with pumpkin that grew straight out of the compost, p…
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The tomato glut

by shiny,

If this year's harvest had a main character, it was tomatoes. Here's how it went, roughly day by day.

Waiting

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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Strawberries, barley, and the first Christmas spud

by shiny,

By November the garden stopped being a promise and started being an actual source of food again.

Strawberry wine ambitions

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…

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Video guides for your favourite crops

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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Spring Prep

by shiny,

Spring prep and last season's ferments

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.

Hail…

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release95

2026-09-27

Features

Garden Layout

Add a garden layout page for mapping where plants sit in a bed by @Br3nda in #4835

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What's Changed

Full Changelog: release94...release95

release94

2026-09-22

What changed

Faster editing of your garden plantings

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Give crops icons from Fluent Emoji

by @Br3nda #4837

Let plantings use a crop's alternate name

by @Br3nda in #4828

Dependencies and maintenance
  • release93 (Memory optimisation, misc fixes round 2) by @CloCkWeRX in #4804
  • Make memcached opt-in, default to a capped in-process cache by @Br3nda in #4814
  • Throttle /activities and /api/v1/activities per IP by @Br3nda in #4815
  • Stop the crop wrangler spec racing a live GBIF request by @CloCkWeRX in #4819
  • Bump aws-sdk-s3 from 1.232.0 to 1.232.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #4818
  • Remove a stray Delete link from the garden page by @CloCkWeRX in #4820
  • Chore/bootstrap 5 by @Br3nda in #4813
  • Improving usability of the plantings editor by @Br3nda in #4816
  • Take Leaflet.markercluster from npm instead of rails-assets.org by @Br3nda in #4836
  • Filter harvest reminders in SQL instead of Ruby memory by @CloCkWeRX in #4831
  • Paginate garden photos and limit plantings in garden show/index views by @CloCkWeRX in #4830
  • Release 94 by @Br3nda in #4825

Full Changelog: release93...release94

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