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by shiny,
What's better than Brussel sprouts? Home-grown Brussels Sprouts grown by robots.
The automation (aka Robots) I'm using is an open source app called "Home Assistant". It runs nicely on a raspberry pi, but I'm running it on an old laptop, which is very convenient due…
lettuces
brussels sprouts
coriander
by shiny,
This year i grew ELEVEN types of potato over summer..
Waiporoporo Taewa Potato that were [ready early](/plantings/shiny-front-lawn-p…
urenika taewa potatoes
Stewart island potatoes
Whataroa taewa potato
Robyn Adair potatoes
pink fir apple potatoes
moemoe taewa potatoes
scots potatoes
Te Māori taewa potatoes
huakaroro taewa potatoes
purple heart potatoes
agria potatoes
waiporoporo taewa potatoes
by shiny,
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: …
by shiny,
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.
by shiny,
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
by shiny,
We've had heaps of rain. The area flooded. Also the radishes split.
radishes
by shiny,
painted mountain corn
boysenberries
rhubarb
peas
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…
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.
corn
pumpkins
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…
Island Bay tomatoes
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 po…
by shiny,
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boysenberries