Gardening Experiences That Worked and Some That Didn't
These are all real life gardening experiences.Calcium Part 2
I have been doing some reading on the net about Calcium. Always an enjoyable past-time for me as it leads me all over the place. As I read an article, I see a reference, look it up and find something else of interest to sidetrack me. At the moment I am reading a pdf...
Science Fiction
My Idea Of The Perfect Job I am an avid reader of science fiction. Anything from Aasimove to Vinge will get my attention and keep me entertained for hours. All I need is a good sf read and a garden to work in while contemplating the author's ideas. At the moment I am...
Potatoes Update
Potatoes These were planted a month ago and I have just started to add compost to hill them up. The white stuff around them is lime. I am curious to see how much better these potatoes do than the ones grown in the cardboard cylinders in a previous post. Update 27 July...
Minerals and a Pot Test
New Rule For Blog Posts The new rule is that if I start a blog post I have to finish it. That means I can't save it as a draft and come back to it later. It has to be published at the first sitting. It's 1:40 pm, let's see how long it takes. I am a keen fan of natural...
Doctor Phil & Paramagnetism
Not the Doctor Phil on TV but Dr. Philip S Callahan. I first heard about Phil Callahan in 2003. I sort of only half listened because the bloke talking with me about him was waxing on about towers of power and radio frequencies that improved the growth of plants. I...
Raised Garden Beds in South East Queensland
There are good reasons to have raised garden beds. keeping your plants from being flooded(see picture) not having to dig through tough soil or clay and work it into a friable soil attracting earth worms to do the hard tilling for you However there are some things you...
Sweet Potatoes Grow Easier Than Weeds
For quite a while I avoided growing sweet potatoes. It seemed too much like hard work. First you had to get a sweet potatoe to shoot vines and them you had to take the vines off and plant them. After getting on to YouTube and seeing how you get the vines...
Who Said I Can’t Grow Bok Choy
I have been struggling for years to grow Bok Choy. I would see it in the supermarkets, these perfect little bunches and every time I saw it, I would ask myself, what am I doing wrong? I know that the Bok Choy in supermarkets is usually grown hydroponically and...
Calcium
This is my understanding from a number of papers from rebels in the agricultural science industry. Probably the most well known is William A. Albrecht PhD, Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri. He lived from 1888 - 1974 and spent most of...
Soy Beans and Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
Growing Soy Beans Soy Beans are always worth growing in your garden. Like any bean, they are a legume and have that wonderful ability to attract a bacteria to live in nodules in its root system. It doesn't just attract any old bacteria, but a specific bacteria that...
New Composting Technique
So far I have tried a couple of different composting ideas. They all involve an amount of work. Seeing that I am a lazy gardener, the less work I have to do and the more time I get to daydream and just enjoy the weather, the more I like it. That doesn't mean that I...
Home Made Fish Fertiliser
Fish fertilizer works in a number of ways. It feeds the plants and also feeds the soil microbes. Plenty of gardeners swear by it. Thing is it costs a bit in the store to buy. I have used it on plenty of occasions but have never made it myself. Your own Home Made Fish...
Sharpening Chipper Blade
As mentioned on the Chipper/Mulcher review page it is easy to remove the chipper blade from the chipper/mulcher. It is not as easy to sharpen it though, as it is made from HSS (high speed steel) which is hardened for the purpose it is used for. Removing the blade I...
Hugulculture
After mentioning hugulculture in the worm post, I thought that I should see how and if it works. When I started the gardens, I didn't realize that I was starting in the lowest part of the yard. I have since been enlightened as it has rained consistently since February...
Worms and Worm Farms
Have you noticed that worms will always be found after the rain? Have you also noticed that if you have some organic matter lying around in the backyard that after a while, if you decide to move it, there is always worm activity at ground level? And if you go and dig...
You can’t trust bastards with no Ethics
They Have NO Ethics I'm not talking about politicians, I'm talking about food manufacturers. They use marketing to entice you to buy their products and try to find waste products from manufacturing and chemical production to replace natural products in their...
Potato Experiment
I was at a grower's co-operative store about a month ago and they had some seed potatoes for sale. They were at the ridiculously cheap price of $2.00 per kg. I became the big spender, let the moths out and bought a kilo. I think they are Sebagoes but am not really...
Stevia – The Zero kj Natural Sweetener They Banned
It is a natural plant sweetener that has no calories and was banned from food usage in the USA by lobbying from the sugar industry. That ban was applied throughout the world and has only recently been lifted in Australia and the USA 2008 and Europe 2011. The Food...