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Author Archives: Sharon
Dinner for three
…and ALL the veg from the garden! Last night we had a small celebration. Bryce was over for dinner (and family is always a thing to celebrate) but with my recent trip to the US, a weekend away to attend a high school reunion and with Chris’s training taking him away from home for days at … Continue reading
And the sad news is
…we have had a small disaster Well Dear Reader…it has been a while since my last post, as well…things were going along swimmingly. The plants in the system were thriving, we had tried out different growing arrangements, tried new vegetables and herbs in the grow beds (and NFT) and continued to marvel at the rate of … Continue reading
Mid-winter in the garden
…and it’s surprisingly abundant Every other week I get to be ‘chief cook and bottle washer’ in the garden as my better half undertakes tasks away from home: improving the world, one person at a a time 🙂 So, in my meanderings today I took some snaps of the veggies and the system. We have … Continue reading
A review of the tenancy agreement
…because we just can’t be sure! The chickens have been a bit sporadic in their attention to egg laying as I guess I have already alluded to…and yes it is Winter, so I guess that’s part of the deal. But (!) our featured image poses the question: “Are the girls under performing OR are they subletting to … Continue reading
Winter wanderings
… a bit of a mixed bag It finally cooled down here in Brisbane…I thought the summer was never going to end, with record temperatures maxing out all around this ‘wide brown land’ of ours, but finally it feels like winter. The aquaponics system is still going well, but sadly I have to report we are … Continue reading
Celery *trees* I say!
Water thirsty plants LOVE the aquaponics system ❤ According to my diary, we started the aquaponics system at the end of January. It came together with a whoosh … technically we were supposed to cycle the system, allow time for the bacteria to sort themselves out before we introduced plants and fish, but it didn’t happen … Continue reading
White Girl One Feather
Blanche’s new Indian name! The story of Blanche is a good one. One of the original ‘Flock of Four’ she was the only one with a fancy moniker…Blanche de la Plume (as we had called all of the others according to their colour — Murphy and Georgia BROWN; Cilla BLACK) and for the life of us … Continue reading
It’s often about timing …
and this time we were a bit out Sigh of relief! We finally received some good, soaking, at some points, torrential rain over the last 48 hours. Our tanks are now at peak capacity (so 4,000 litres all up) and we even had to bail out the sump (the grow beds and the sump are open to the … Continue reading
Frozen fishballs!
… feeding the marauding hordes I think we have reached bottom with the barramundi. They are now a small clutch of 10–15 and still displaying quite different, individual tendencies. They feed differently to the Jades, who just go nuts when we sprinkle in the floating pelletised food. The barras, however, prefer to strike their food … Continue reading
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