Skud posts

We're currently planning what we're going to work on next for Growstuff. We built the basics of the website, but there's so much more to do. If you've got a few minutes to spare, I'd really appreciate it if you'd take the time to answer this survey. It …

Ordered a few things from the Diggers Club, some winter stuff and also some things I want to grow as soon as spring arrives (which is actually quite soon, especially if I start seedlings indoors first – last frost here is early September, which means starting seedlings …

I've got some chard growing in containers in my backyard. It's been doing OK for a year, but now it's winter so it's only getting partial sun. Today I noticed that one container is looking a bit sadder than the other. When I went to examine it, I found this:

![something on my chard](http://…

I've been away for a couple of weeks (travelling to the US for a conference). Now I'm back, it's great to take stock of where the garden's at.

The most exciting thing: snowpeas! I planted them on the 14th of April (ha, thanks, G…

Looks like we're going to start making sourdough bread when I get back from my upcoming trip. I've been baking other kinds of yeast bread for a while now, and have good sources of organic flour, etc. Does anyone have any recommended guides/tips/advice for sourdough baking?

For months now, we've been working on a set of features which we figured was the minimum with which we could launch Growstuff to the public. We wanted people to be able to track what they'd planted, upload pics of what they're growing, find other members near them, and discuss food gardening wit…

Hi everyone,

Last night pozorvlak and I did a code push to the site, which contains the final features we wanted in place before our public launch. These are, most importantly:

• Crop photos: photos you post on your plantings now show up on the crops page. You can see …

We just pushed a number of new features to the site, including:

• Photos! You can now add photos to plantings, using Flickr. Stay tuned for lots of improvements in this area in the coming weeks. (Yes, we know you can only see the most recent few photos in your Flickr stream, for instance, a…

We've just pushed a bunch of new features, so please try them out and let us know what you think!

• Search nearby members: specify distance and units (km/miles) – when you go to "search for nearby members" you will see options to select a distance, where previously it just defaulted to 100 mi…

Our landlords tried to make our rental property's garden low-maintenance by filling it the beds with all kinds of perennial shrubs and small trees. Unfortunately they planted everything really close together and it's caused all kinds of problems – things under trees not getting enough light, th…

It's autumn here.

A couple of weeks ago I was cleaning up brown, dry, dead-ish tomato plants and started by cutting them off a few inches above ground level with the secateurs, meaning to come along later and pull out the root balls and deal with the remainders of the soil in the containers. …

Hey everyone,

I just pushed a few new things to production. The biggie is that you can now search for members near you. It's very basic at present but we have some improvements in the pipeline, including being able to specify the radius to se…