Ooh, I’m going to make this tomorrow with nettle/raspberry leaf tea.

I have had them cross pollinate, but only when two plants are literally touching. Th colour of one variety and the shape of the other… had some pretty cool results actually! But mostly, they self pollinate.

The inside will be insulated with wool batts, “clad” in a fine aviary wire to begin with (to hold the insulation up, and hopefully exclude mice somewhat). No solid internal cladding, because a)timeframe b)cost and c)the shed is tiny enough now I hate to take up more space with internal cladding.

The expanding foam stuff is like this…[Read more]

I am down south near Nannup. I haven’t got a pond but when I was reading about azolla lots of people said it could be grown in any sort of container – buckets, wading pools etc, so that was my general sort of plan. I ordered some from Ebay from someone who said they could post to WA so we’ll see how we go. 🙂

Good thinking Muzzy. I will go have a looksee

*wanders off, whistling*

Well, from what I can find… I checked the WA database of declared plants and it wasn’t on there, and I found a brochure thng from the city of Belmont explaining why it doesn’t “manage” the local azolla, and that it was not consdered a noxious weed in WA. Perhaps it used to…[Read more]

BlueWren post=349028 wrote: Isn’t it another name for pennywort , which is quite easy to come by?

Apparently, yes! Good to know, although I haven’t seen pennywort around anyway (to be fair, I do not get out much :laugh: )

veginout, I was planning on giving it away to people too, with stern instructions to eat the required 2 leaves a day, but…[Read more]

Faverolles?
They are supposed to be a good eating bird, and fair layers, with a reputation for laying through winter. I have read also that you can sex the chickens at a week or so of age (only the salmon favs), when their first wing feathers start coming in. The females’ wing feathers will be brown, and the males’ black. They are also suppoed to…[Read more]

woohoo, a yacon! Thanks everyone. I pulled one up to see what was going on and there were half a dozen tubers and then a bunch of those growing crown things which I will separate and replant out. And then I will have so many yacons!

Ha, my very wild original guess was some sort of amaranth but it was based on nothing at all so I didn’t take myself seriously. Do two wild guesses put together make it kind of an edcuated guess?

Ittook me a while but I figured out how to put the photos in the post. Thanks for the tip, Bel.

Ayla, I didn’t think to smell it, but it’s growing in Nannup in a frost free garden. It is in the garden beds (one a raised bed, the other not) and looking healthy so someone might have actually planted it (and therefore it might be a useful plant) but…[Read more]

I’ve had two of mine come up in the past week. No idea where I’m actually going to plant them out… does anyone know if they are c. moschata or c. maxima? Not that it really ,matters I suppose – I have planted so many different kinds of pumpkin/squash I am going to have to hand pollinate everything anyway 😀

I am in the planning process for my chook orchard too. It comes with half a dozen mature nectarine trees, but I’m going to plant out an understorey of herbs/vegetables and shrubs to complement the trees, and feed the chooks when there isn’t much falling fruit.
Tagasaste, pigeon pea, silverbeet, pepino, comfrey, and lucerne/alfalfa are on my list so far.

One of the goanns finally found the nestbox. It took them two weeks which I was surprised about :laugh: I had a boiled egg in there as a “fake” egg, and when I went out to check eggs and found none, including the boiled one… I suspected foul play. Of the reptilian variety. I only have three chooks for now, so have been getting two eggs most…[Read more]

Ooh, these look awesome! I want one of each. now the question is, do I splurge on the single set or try to rope some friends in too so we get the discount…

No, i didn’t know, and I’m glad that I do now. I will be looking through that site extensively. Thanks for the heads up!

Oh, thanks so much Erthgirl. I have PMed you. I am still on a keen lookout for pigeon peas and will let you know when I source some.

This is my lentil patch so far. To the right and back are the lentils, and in the left foreground are the chickpeas. I don’t think I’ll get much of a harvest from this tiny patch but they look cool so far. Although you can’t really tell that from my rubbish photo :cheer:

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Oh, neat. I have been wanting to try this and have looked online but not really found anything concise or helpful. Now I have 🙂 so I will be giving that a go in the next few weeks. Thanks for the info!

I have just planted a batch of lentils. Some I started in a pot – they grew easily and quickly and didn’t mind whenI forgot to water them. I planted chickpeas in a pot too but most of them rotted – perhaps i watered them too much.

I planted the seedlings out when they were about 3-4 inches high, and when I did that I poked a dozen more seeds of…[Read more]

I have been wanting to try some mulberry cuttings but had resigned myself to waiting until next winter. Perhaps I will give it a go now anyway. Can’t hurt anything!

I have read that figs are incredibly easy to grow from cuttings, but that you should do it in winter when the tree is completely dormant. I might try it this spring though just for…[Read more]