Stewart island potato Found by Kay Baxter rowing wild in a clifff face along the shore on Stewart Island around 1990. It is an extremely beautiful variety similar in shape to Whataroa and Chatham Islands however this one has …
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Karoro potato at Koanga Institute
by shiny,
Note from Koanga institute about huakaroro taewa potato
Sent to Koanga by Rex Mundy of Kerikeri. He said it came from the Banks Peninsula, "growing there as long as the locals can remember at an isolated bay, among the boulders on the foreshore. The runners went l…
huakaroro taewa potatoes
Read moreNote from Koanga
by shiny,
Growing notes for: huakaroro taewa potato
2012 - Medium height, strong top growth but very very crinkly leaves, and some yellow blotching average weight 1kg
2013 - More even line, but poor yield. …
huakaroro taewa potatoes
Read moreNew action buttons
by shiny,
There are five new buttons on the top of every page in Growstuff this week. They're the five most useful actions for someone tracking their garden.
"My Gardens" is where you can see what's going on in your garden, and for perennial crops, you'll see how many days to harvest, and a progress bar…
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Farmbot are cool - and their icons are too
by shiny,
This week I met with Rory who is the founder of FarmBot. He's offered me their CC-0 licensed icons they created. These are a dataset for their OpenFarm Project (so they're considered data, not code, so isn't in git) The icons are for a crop. e.g. one for corn, one for tomatoes
They look usefu…
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puppy
by shiny,
we have a puppy. She's gorgeous but she's also destroying my garden. This year I think i won't be planting out a garden, because i know she'll dig it up.
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How to save seeds
by shiny,
Beans, peas and corn: remove husks and allow seeds to dry out – this may take a couple of weeks, then remove casings and store.
Pumpkins and melons: seeds need to be washed and set aside to dry for a week or so befor…
radicchio onions leeks carrots parsnips celery lettuces melons pumpkins peas corn beans capsica zucchini tomatoes cucumbers
Read moreIndigenous plants
by shiny,
I've been growing several indigenous plants recently. Theres a miro tree that will eventually have berries. I've added karaka tawa, and hīnau to the growstuff database too, as these were (and are) food sources for the people living here for centuries…
New Zealand spinach kawakawa flax harakekes kūmara hīnau tawa miro
Read morePreparing for winter
by shiny,
I'm going to attempt to grow potato over winter. To prepare I'm going to do a full garden bed of mustard and then dig the greens into the soil. Add compost and blood and bone. I've never attempted potato over winter. It can get very wet here, and in August it dr…
potatoes mustard parsnips carrots
Read moreThere's a storm coming..
by shiny,
Cyclone Gita is due here on Tuesday. I'm gonna need to bring in the tomato stakes and other items that might turn into projectiles.
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Lifespan and harvest predictions
by shiny,
Something i've been working on is the predictions on GrowStuff.org. If you go to you gardens page there's now a progress bar for each annual planting. That's plantings that are expected to complete there lifespan in 2 years or less . the progress bar is % until the plant is finished and can be re…