Skud posts

I really should've got started on winter planting sooner, I think. Everything in the garden is in a lull right now. Although people near me are still blogging about the last of their crops from summer, all we have still going are some chillis and some basil. Lots of things died…

I was meant to be working on paperwork type stuff today, but instead I went outside and did violence to a couple of ugly shrubs and dealt with the huge sprawling mess of our alleged "compost" pile.

Before:

![Messy shrubs and a big spreading heap of garden refuse](http://farm9.staticflickr.c…

We just made another production push including the following features:

• improved logged-out homepage: if you visit the homepage when you are signed out, you will now see a more dynamic page with community content on it, rather than the static page that was previously there.
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I've recently seen a couple of interesting ideas for using lemon peel and I thought I'd post them here and see if anyone has others.

1. Peel the lemons with a fruit-peeler (i.e. into thin strips, avoiding pith) and then dry them in the oven on a low heat. Put the dried peels i…

I've got some rhubarb seedlings which I hope to plant out in containers. Does anyone have much experience with this? Any particular tips? I know rhubarb's meant to be a heavy feeder so I'm wondering particularly how to keep it happy in that regard. I've also heard it's a good co…

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

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… but I'm tired of it, so I won't. I just wish our mutual understanding of the term "quiet enjoyment" involved fewer inspections and more autonomy in the garden.

Anyway. The other day I picked up some herbs from the CERES nursery, and on Monday I planted them along the front fence:

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We're at the CERES Harvest Festival today, sharing an information stall with the folks from Open Food Web (food-related open source project based in my neighbourhood – it's like we're a hub for techie/s…

We just pushed a handful of new features/bugfixes/etc:

• new support/FAQ page
• ability to delete gardens
• more friendly signup email
• crops, members, and posts pages are now paginated (i.e. broken into smaller results)
• various small improvements/bug…

Let's get this ball rolling! I notice there are a lot of antipodeans (mostly Melbournians, ahem, wonder why that is?) signed up so far, so I'd like to know… what are you planning on growing over the winter?

We have some chard that's still going strong from the summer, but I think I'll plant…

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