Everything about used coffee grounds for compost and fertilizer
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Home grown Apple Compote!
What to do with a whole lot of almost ripe apples that the birds are already starting to test? Well you could leave it to them, sure they are hungrier and maybe they deserve some good homegrown fruit. Nah! Ingredients Instructions
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Australia summer fruit
There was this little plum tree in the front yard that was no more than a stick in the ground – now 4 seasons later it provides a delicious plum that ripens just a few days before the birds realise! But not the only fruit at this type of year – the cherries were excellent…
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Keep Chicken Eggs Clean!
You got chickens? They are like naughty puppies and crap on everything, including their own eggs if you let them. But there’s a way to keep the nesting box clean, if you find them perching over them at night. Bird spikes, amazingly, work for chickens also 😳 In the photo you can see one egg…
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Need a smile?
Here you go – with coffee. Without coffee.
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Ban the coffee pod!!
Seems like a town in Germany got sick and tied of those environmentally hateful coffee pods and decided to do something about it. There is so much bad with those pods it can’t be right, almost evil I says. Your signs of quality no pod coffee are below – a machine where you pour the…
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Peach tree from seed
Really didn’t know how this one would turn out, but a little hope, time, rain and coffee compost seems to make fruit! And it’s a late crop compared to the other peaches, so they are now available fresh off the tree from November to Feb. A delightful sweet and slightly tart clingstone peach. An…
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Coffee Grounds – Bali
Good to know that if I ever settle down in Bali, that there is an everlasting source of coffee grounds available. Thank you tourists!! The ground pucks are decidedly firmer than back home in Melbourne. They must have a very smooth grind for that to happen, and will soon be asking the local baristas how…
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First day of Summer 2015
And then there were peaches… But back in Spring… There are so many peaches now that the branches are splayed out like a pile of pick up sticks. With each fruit gleefully removed, it hops a little more to normal form. Thank you Summer 😃
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End of Winter 2015 (Almost)
So this is what the end of a Winter looks like in my part of the world. Following a few weeks break during the shortest days of the year, the chickens start laying again. You see, they are solar powered. The globe artichoke is pushing up past the dogbane. Stinging nettle is covering the fence on…
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Ramblings from a Victorian smuggled into Tasmania on a Holiday
The Luxury of Sitting here writing Stuff Right this second I am sitting behind a double glassed window overlooking a river that runs through Tasmania’s Huon Valley. White smoke drifts skyward from a chimney, as small birds of all sorts hop from fence tops to tree branches. The end of the latest semester was a…
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What it costs to save a sickly bare arsed chicken
100 dollars apparently. More details to follow…
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Why are Mealworms just for Poultry and Birds?
Saw something interesting on a visit to the local pet supply store – a bag of dried mealworms for poultry. There were a few things that surprised me, the first that they were retailing $15 for a 100g bag (that’s $150 a kilo), and the second was that it was a product of China. So what I…