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…

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…

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.

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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…

Sadly, our companion planted site, OpenFarm.cc has shuttered. As a result, we've removed some of the links to growing guides and other resources that are no longer available.

While far from the same open data goals, to mirror the previous functionality there are a few [external links](https://ww…

I recently have fallen deeply into a composting and vermiculture rabbithole; having found a few (very cheap) [Vevor 1000L compost bins](https://www.vevor.com.au/compost-tumbler-c_11277/vevor-compost-bin-220-gallon-outdoor-expandable-composter-easy-to-setup-large-capacity-composting-bin-fast-creat…

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In their open source project they now have 'curves' that record things such as growing height, spread and watering requirements over the lifecycle of the plant. This is a very cool feature but there are no premade curves to download and use…

So that you can plan next season's plantings better, we're introducing an Activity planner, and some important adjustments to allow forward dated plantings.

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As Flickr is removing a lot of people's photos if they have exceeded the limits, we'll be removing any photos that are now a 404. However, in the upcoming release we will be ingesting photos published on GBIF, the majority of which are an open licence.

While there are no guarantees your specific…

I managed to grow some truly giant leeks this year.

Unfortunately I also had a lot of spring onion, so started to reach a limit for what could be done.

Standout new recipe: Miso braised leeks

This year I accidentally produced approximately 6 billion cabbages. This immediately lead to problems, as not wanting to waste anything and reading that all parts are edible, I set about home canning, freezing and doing about every variation of stuffing something into a cabbage,…

kabocha listing shows a 2 week (11 days) lifespan but a first harvest in 22 weeks. 2 weeks is naturally too short.