Everything about used coffee grounds for compost and fertilizer
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JN12 Egg Incubator Review
The JN12 egg incubator, priced at US$100, has notable flaws such as misspellings in instructions and a design flaw with shifting barriers. Despite these issues, it successfully hatched 95% of a second batch of quail eggs, making it a recommended choice for amateur breeders. Essential tips for humidity and temperature management are provided.
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The Fig Tree Vending Machine
Hungry? Just grab it! You see how it works, just like a vending machine. Sure it’s only working a few weeks a year, but nature doesn’t work on our timetable. She does it when ever she bloody well wants! Here are some handy instructions to follow: 1. Approach tree with ripe fruit 2. Pick off…
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Tamarillo Tree: 5 Reasons to Grow This Year-Round Fruit
It’s a Fruit – It’s a Vegetable. Whatever I’m surprised that Solanum betaceum (Tamarillo), does not feature more often in permaculture systems. They are a fast growing small tree with good drought resistance, thrive in a strong wind when kept in bush form to about 2 meters, and of course, they make delicious fruit –…
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Because You Need to Visit the Rippon Lea Estate but Can’t
Some happy snaps from a recent trip to the Rippon Lea Estate in Melbourne. So what are the chances you are going to visit anytime soon? If the answer is no, then here are some of the things that I saw on a beautifully sunny Autumn day.
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Published in new Poetry Anthology
There are few things as satisfying as finding a bulky package in the mailbox, opening it, and finding a book in there with your name in it. This is what happened to me just a few days ago, and I wanted to share the experience with you as soon as possible.
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The Mad Adventures of Chilli the Blind Chicken – Part 1
Spare a thought for Chilli, the ISA Brown x Leghorn x Australorp chicken who became a blind sometime after her first birthday, possibly during Melbourne’s Xmas heatwave. Not sure exactly when or how it happened – I was having a great old time in Gelnelg, Adelaide with the family at the time, and during my…
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Spider and the Grape Vine
I’m sure spidey did a great job keeping off the aphids and other little bugs from the grape vine. But for the possum/s that came and ate my almost ready to eat grapes, alas poor spidey – my poor friend spidey.
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They Remain
under stars orange flames lift up cold memories
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Visiting a hillside Backyard Permaculture in Hobart…
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A Victorian Sunset over Bushfires
Summer this year was both brief and particularly brutal. So there was something very welcoming about a change in the weather, particularly when it brought rainfall over raging bushfires. The smoke drifted along with the clouds and filled the air with a smell of burning wood and dust. It was coming from some place far…
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Rock Dust for the re-mineralization of your Soil
I’m going to be trying this, after a couple of years of playing around with small quantities of rock mulch. Tomorrow, I’m picking up a fair amount of crushed granite – will let you know how it works out. This video provides an excellent overview of why it works.