Growstuff helps you track what you're harvesting from your home garden and see how productive it is.
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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: …
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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.
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I had some Urenika Taewa Potato and Stewart island potato 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 shou…
Stewart island potatoes
urenika taewa potatoes
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We've had heaps of rain. The area flooded. Also the radishes split.
radishes
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painted mountain corn
rhubarb
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If you grow a pumpkin underneath your corn 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
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I'm growing a precious heirloom. The Island Bay tomatoes have a tale behind their journey to me. Some of the first Italian immigrants to this country settled in nearby Island Bay.
They'd concluded the tomatoes available in Aotearoa were not the tomatoes they knew and remembered from Italy. At…
Island Bay tomatoes
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The vege garden in the back yard has fed us for four years but now the pōhutukawa tree in the street to the North has grown huge and now we have no sun.
This weekend i set up three raised beds in the front lawn, and carted about eight wheel barrow loads of soil.
I've planted some of our po…
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I've broken my ankle. Spectacular. I'm on holiday, house sitting, in a town without much public transport.
one result of this is, I've tackled some of the bigger growstuff feature requests.
One big feature, that would be useful to me, is getting trades working better. I asked for ideas ov…
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Generally, "Taewa" is the term used for potatoes that have been in New Zealand since before 1800, and cultivated by Maori people - but the word can be used for all potatoes.
The kūmara is a distant cousin of the potato. Both the taewa and …
waiporoporo taewa potatoes
urenika taewa potatoes
Te Māori taewa potatoes
kūmara
Whataroa taewa potato
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I've just released the member time line functionality. You can find it here: https://www.growstuff.org/timeline It's also in the top right buttons, looks like a calendar.
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