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overwintering the taewa

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 shoul…

urenika taewa potatoes Stewart island potatoes

Radish split after too much rain.

by shiny,

We've had heaps of rain. The area flooded. Also the radishes split.

radishes

TODO List

by shiny,

DONE plant Painted Mountain Corn in the Big Sunny Bed
DONE Plant the 2 potted sunflowers into the front garden
DONE Plant more sun flowers out in the north garden
DONE Harvest the boysenberry soon
SINE6String the [peas](/crops/p…

painted mountain corn rhubarb peas boysenberries

Feature ideas - Planting out. User-defined plant names.

by bigblen,

BTW I'm happy to create github issues if this is preferred?

1) I create some crops when I plant seeds in trays etc. Some time later, they have turned into seedlings. I guess I can edit the entries to change the location from 'containers' to 'garden'. But perhaps a "Plant Out" action would b…

time to compost

by shiny,

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

Three Rare heirlooms - Island bay tomatoes

by shiny,

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 s…

Island Bay tomatoes

Pōhutukawa shade

by shiny,

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 potato…

New feature, fav/like any photo.

by shiny,

Send some appreciation to anyone (or yourself) by tapping the heart ♥ beside a photo title.

burst of growstuff features

by shiny,

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 over on…

Taewa (Pre-european potato)

by shiny,

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 th…