Today i harvested 5 big carrots and 2 eggs
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
How I make my seed raising mix.
How I make my seed raising mix.
Items needed:
1x Coir Peat Brick (I used 2)
For 1 brick you use 4.5L of rain water since I used 2 bricks I used 9L.
Some sulfate of Potash and some potting mix.
Stuff i used.
Instructions:
-Put the Coir Peat brick(s) in a wheel barrow then add 4.5L of good water (if using two bricks use 9L)
-Leave it there for 10-15 minutes
-then add some sulfate of potash and
some potting mix or dry sand.
-Mix it all together.
Then it is ready to use. I store the stuff I
don’t use all at once in my potting mix containers.
Coir peat brick when it doubled it size.
finished Product. =)
Garden Update: Bed 1,3,4,5,6 and 7
Bed 4:
bed 4 has carrots 1st sowing, 2nd sowing and radish and beetroot.
Before
After.
Bed 5:
Bed 5 is my onion bed, the types of onions it has in is gladalan white, Cream gold,Purplette,leeks (from bunnings) and spring Onions (from bunnings)
Spring Onions Up Close.
Bed 6:
bed 6 has peas and beans
Bed 7:
Bed 7 has in it lettuce, silver beet and spinach.
No Photos of this bed sorry.
Seedlings:
tomatoes all different types capsuicm eggplant wormwood , parsely (thanks yeehah for seeds) and cork tree seeds.
Tree Lurence seeds
Wormwood seedlings
Monday, April 14, 2008
Haverset
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
New Forums
There is a new forums which our friend cosmic (http://cosmicgardening.blogspot.com/)
the new forum can be found at http://cosmicconnection.forumc.biz/index.htm
ill try and update my blog twice a week or more.
Friday, April 4, 2008
March Weather
highest this month 30.4°C on the 13th.
lowest this month 7.7°Con the 31st.
Rain:
45.6mm
total for 2008:
413.0mm
autistic child in Australia
This website was mentioned on the Today show this morning:http://www.1000hours.com.au
They are petitioning the government to provide funding for every autistic child in Australia to get 1000 of early intervention per year for two years. Very easy to sign the petition so why not :)
Egg Count
Egg count for March was 49 eggs so mean the total for the year is know up to 148 at the end of march.i keep track of this is a Mircosoft excel sheet (if you want to have a look at it please just email me and ill be happy to send you a copy).