The problem is I spent the evening playing LoL and playing like crap cos I think I would rather have done some sewing or tv-watching. The problem was I woke up early for a weekend, which doesn’t usually happen, and had more hours in the day than I knew what to do with. That said,…
Went to Danielle’s yesterday to make seed bombs – but we called them seed balls cos that’s how we roll. Seed balls are a guerilla gardening/permaculture trick to make sure the seeds you sow can withstand time, weather and hungry creatures. Contained by a mixture of compost, clay and chilli powder, the crazy mix of…
I forgot to post this on the weekend. Last Friday, I harvested the bushy, bushy mint from my planter box for a round of mojitos. It felt pretty darn swell to make drinks for friends with garnish I had grown myself. Wee! ^__^ Level up! Photo taken by Chips.
Yeah, ok, it should be obvious but I never thought to associate green, crisp tasting stuff from health food shops with golden fields of grainy, bready wheat. Well, today I learned. Danielle gave Doug and myself a bag of wheat from Kakulas Bros, for trying microgreen desktop gardening with other flavours. Must remember cream cheese…
This is the first Capsicum flower in the planter box next to my desk. Quite pleased we’re seeing progress as I was worried the UV tinting would block out too much light. The temperature in here is about 24 degrees C, varying by a degree or so every now and then. The internet reckons this…
Today, I harvested a Sugar Baby watermelon planted back in September. I’ve spent the last five months watering, fertilising, training and protecting this little one. It’s been through a repotting, a super-hot Christmas with no water, a slug invasion, and possibly a slow execution by the other melon plant sharing its pot. Notice how the…
Doug is my deskmate at work. We’ve been trying to level up our gardening skills because plants are cool and working with computers is soul-sucking if you don’t have other hobbies to keep you sane. Inspired by the cress postcarden from Swee, we took to growing microgreens. Microgreens are germinated seeds that are allowed to…
I had a nice time at training last night. Unlike usual, my head didn’t run its anxious post-mortem of things I said or did that might be totally stupid. I’m getting comfortable with saying and doing stupid things; I mean silly little things, not like property damage or endangering other people. That’s beyond stupid. Today…
We were surprised a couple of weeks ago to find four little tomatoes growing on the vine. This is an heirloom variety known as Tigarella, which we picked up at Bunnings last year. I don’t know much about heirloom veggies other than not being able to get them at the supermarket. I feel pretty special…
It’s beautiful! (Photo by Doug) But I didn’t water and then it went flat! We were cressfallen. :( But then we put a bit of water in and now it’s picked up! And then we tried eating it and it was gross. Not delicious at all. This was fun, though. More desktop gardening to come…