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Here's an example of how readily black elder will root in water or moist soil. This is a very thick piece I pulled out o...
23/03/2018

Here's an example of how readily black elder will root in water or moist soil. This is a very thick piece I pulled out of my aquaponics and just dumped into a fishtank. It's rooting from wood about twice as thick as my thumb.

08/11/2017

I was having a look at one of my outdoor worm bins that's a bit of an experiment with basically a large pot with crushed up leaves, some potting mix and European nightcrawlers and I saw the most fascinating thing. I dug a worm out, and I thought it may have been sick as it was very constricted just forward of the clitellum, but then what looked like a small plastic ring shot forward and the worm shot forward and the worm got out of it. And it became a new cocoon. So apparently they form on the outside of the worm.

Unfortunately I didn't get a photo as everything happened too fast.

The plan is working. Little hatching European nightcrawlers next to a fully mature adult :D there's at least 80 eggs in ...
13/05/2017

The plan is working. Little hatching European nightcrawlers next to a fully mature adult :D there's at least 80 eggs in my bin now and I'll be adding 40+ mature worms today plus any eggs that come in the punnets

The European nightcrawlers I bought to try and breed up appear to be doing precisely that. Which is great, means they ar...
23/04/2017

The European nightcrawlers I bought to try and breed up appear to be doing precisely that. Which is great, means they are happy

It was time for a little rhubarb harvest
23/04/2017

It was time for a little rhubarb harvest

Sometimes the predator becomes prey.
14/01/2017

Sometimes the predator becomes prey.

There's something special about having your littlest excited about food you've grown. He even followed me under the tree...
08/01/2017

There's something special about having your littlest excited about food you've grown. He even followed me under the tree and started eating the ones that had fallen. Had to stop him doing that though cause they had ants and stuff :)

Found this cute little fella on my apple tree
17/12/2016

Found this cute little fella on my apple tree

Ladybirds getting busy on the carrot flowers
04/12/2015

Ladybirds getting busy on the carrot flowers

Blueberry picking time
01/12/2015

Blueberry picking time

I mixed some worm castings into a $3 potting mix a while back to use for seed raising. Then forgot about the bag. Today ...
28/11/2015

I mixed some worm castings into a $3 potting mix a while back to use for seed raising. Then forgot about the bag. Today I went to move it and thought I had a bunch of weeds growing. Turns out I had a lot of tomato seeds in the worm castings and they have germinated in the bag.

24/10/2015

Just did a quick aquaponics update. Will be up by tomorrow

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