Entries by HMN
Human urine and wood ash make potent sustainable fertilisers
Results of the first study evaluating the use of human urine mixed with wood ash as a fertilizer for food crops has found that the combination can be substituted for costly synthetic fertilizers to produce bumper crops of tomatoes without introducing any risk of disease for consumers. Read more at Science Daily
Link lovage
Handy little chart of how to store your fruit and vegetables. Amazing things you can do with 500,000 dahlias. There are new White House kitchen garden videos. Edible Geography has a day out with mushrooms grown in an old railway tunnel. Victory gardens in bomb craters? Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire now on TV
Kapiti Community Food Forest
Inspired by Geoff Lawton’s Establishing a Food Forest, a group has got together to explore the potential of food forest gardening on the Kapiti Coast. Our vision is to build a community food forest garden for Kapiti. Planned, planted and maintained by the community, the forest garden will serve as an education resource, plant nursery, […]
Food Forest Gardening Intro
First in a series looking at wonderful world of food forests, or forest gardening. A food forest, also called a forest garden, is a productive and organic garden modeled on the ecosystem of a forest. Species are selected to create a stable, functioning environment that fulfill the needs of the gardeners by producing fruits, berries, […]
Wellington’s gone all planty
Well, I guess it is spring. One of the things I love about this city is how green it is. Not the city city but the hills surrounding it – houses peaking out from amongst the trees, it looks incredible. Love it. And then there’s the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary and Otari Wilton Bush that are […]
Seedy Sunday is next Sunday – September 20, 2pm – new venue!
Hoping to see you next Sunday! Because things have got a little bit tight lately, with SS becoming so popular, we’ve now had to move to a bigger venue – the Paraparaumu Memorial Hall on the corner of Tutanekai and Aorangi Sts. Click here to see it on Google Maps. This month, Dave Johnston will […]
Rocket Farming
Now that I’ve managed to make it successfully through winter, I can look back and say yes, it was a breeze! Truthfully, I’m not a fan. Living in temperate climates, I’m sure you get more colds, flus and generally nastiness than you do elsewhere. It’s these middling bits where one minute you’re warm, the next […]
Living architecture – amazing plant pictures
“Plants are amazing: they provide food, air, medicine, and material with which we can create buildings, furniture, and art. But through an ancient yet obscure craft, still-living plants can themselves be turned into bridges, tables, ladders, chairs, works of art, and even buildings. Known variously as botanical architecture, tree sculpture, tree-shaping, tree-grafting, pooktre, arborsculpture, and […]
Fruit and vegetable washing
Lately, I’ve noticed more ads for fruit and vegetable washes to get rid of nasties like pesticides and fungicides. I wash produce thoroughly when I get it home from the supermarket (I don’t live out of my garden alone). And while I’ve generally been satisfied by this, it may be a good idea to step […]