Before and After…
Posted by kiwinewt on 17 January, 2010Dont you just love Nature in different seasons? The before photos are approx Autumn/Winter and the after photos are Summer. (Before/After Spring)
I, Kiwinewt, am a TechnoHippy.
Technohippies are a breed of their own. They are not malicious, but only interested in the way things work. They have a broad wisdom of many different technologies. Ignorance and hatred is looked down upon by the technohippy. The technohippy embraces the environment and will do as much as they can to protect it and help it flourish. All in all, a technohippy is a philosophically-open eccentric geek.
Natural Wood Raised Garden
Posted by kiwinewt on 4 January, 2010I think that this is one of the better instructables I have seen lately. I think that this is a really awesome way of utilizing branches that come out of the garden but would otherwise take a couple of years to rot down. This is definately something that I will build once we get our [...]
Progress
Posted by kiwinewt on 5 December, 2009Congratulations on the successful completion of the 102 course and now also the SIT Certificate in Organic Horticulture. Overall your work has been excellent as usual and it has been a pleasure having you study. Your work is always well done and great to be completed ahead of time like this (much appreciated at this [...]
Soap Nuts Review
Posted by kiwinewt on 22 November, 2009A while ago I was given a bag of soap nuts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapindus). I have just finally gotten around to making up some liquid soap from them. The instructions that come with them say to use a cup of soap nuts to a litre of water and simmer for 20 minutes, which I followed. Oddly enough, [...]
Compost!
Posted by kiwinewt on 12 July, 2009Heh. Just turned over the compost bin. After getting through the newly added stuff, the compost underneath looked GOOOOOD! And by the time spring comes around I should actually have good compost to dig in to the soil. Huzzah! I would post pics, but I forgot to take the camera out with me… And we [...]
Harvest
Posted by kiwinewt on 5 June, 2009So I managed to get off work early today and got the frost damage sorted. It wasn’t as bad as I first thought – just had to get rid of the tomatoes. I moved the boxes around so they are up against the north-facing end of the garden – in front of the herb garden [...]
Current Garden Layout
Posted by kiwinewt on 4 June, 2009Silly little diagram of the garden how it is at the moment. Not to scale Brown = vege beds Yellow-brown = brick bed. currently with borage and weeds…. Red = compost bin Blue = shed Green = tree Grey pentagram = Washing Line Grey = path Pink = herb/little bed So much I would love [...]
Garlic
Posted by kiwinewt on 2 June, 2009I know it’s not the shortest day yet, but this has just gone in to the garden And after it’s planted and covered with leaves for warmth (the tomatoes are long gone now)
Planning
Posted by kiwinewt on 1 June, 2009See! It’s the next day and I am posting! Progress! This year I am going to try growing my seeds in pots like these (after I run out of my stash of plastic post saved from this year!) http://www.geocities.com/newspaperpots/ Also, I am going to try the native american practice of growing corn, squash and beans [...]