Not a short post, but there you are. ;-) Mushrooms, vermiculture, and pumpkin shoots!
Filed under ‘learning by trial & error’
posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 11:58
posted on Monday, March 10, 2014 - 11:02
I have one ongoing experiment that I have only mentioned in passing: growing oyster mushrooms at home, hopefully with little effort involved. After a learning experience I am now the excited owner of two bins-o-shrooms!
posted on Monday, February 24, 2014 - 14:50
In an effort to keep a more regular posting rhythm, this is just a short post picking up some loose ends that are lying around: The worms in the kitchen, the moss house number, and a long-standing queue of posts waiting to be written.
posted on Monday, February 10, 2014 - 12:06
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m really no good at juggling objects with three dimensions in my head. So it being winter and the mud outside being a little too cold for my taste, I obtained a recipe for perfect, cheap, and fairly stable, playdough to try and externalise the muddles in my brain.
posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 12:02
As I said before, after reading Gaia’s Garden (and another German permaculture book from our local library) I had this sudden urge to go permacultural right now. Urban gardening, yay!
posted on Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 10:31
The day after making the moss house number I got the ladder out again, scraped the last bits of moss from the bottom of the measuring cup, and patched a few more places on the five. The sun was shining that day, and even though this part of the wall is in shade for most of the day (ooohh this is so going to take some looking after in summer!), the moss paste was fairly dry. So I brought the paintbrush out and applied the dirt-and-buttermilk soup to the number, wetting it through (and dripping on the wall again, and cleaning it off moderately well again). The whole thing does stick well to the wall, this much I can say.
posted on Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 00:58
Pinterest brought me the moss graffiti idea… now that really is something that can be done fairly quickly and is super cool. And the house where I’m living right now does not have a number on the front. So a couple of days ago I decided to forage for moss, masking tape and a ladder and try out the simpler of the two recipes I found – it sounded too simple, and I reckoned there’d be plenty to go wrong during implementation.
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