August 2010
Monthly Archive
August 31, 2010
Do something worthwhile with your spare time
Posted by traffordeco under Motivation | Tags: AFSL, Volunteering |[3] Comments
August 11, 2010
The Trout are growing well!
Posted by traffordeco under Aquaponics, Fish | Tags: Aquaponics, Food, Rainbow Trout |Leave a Comment
We’ve just got back from a week away, and in our absence the trout were being fed by an automatic fish-feeder. They seem to be pretty happy with that arrangement as they now look huge – at least in comparison to when we left!
We weighed them to see and their weight is now over 35g – doubled in the last two weeks. Time to up the amount we feed them again.
August 5, 2010
Our crop-rotation fantasy plan
Posted by traffordeco under Garden, Vegetables | Tags: Allotment, Crop-Rotation, Food, Garden, Grow-your-own, Self Sufficiency, Vegetables |[4] Comments
Getting to the end of our first year in the garden, we’ve been a bit chaotic. Digging beds just in time to plant chitted potatoes, or seedlings outgrowing their seed trays, and we’ve only managed to get three-and-a-half of the eight beds dug (each bed is 5ft x 20ft, and double-dug)
I’ve finally had a chance to sit down and plan it all out properly, ready for next year, and – several books later – I have got a full four-year crop-rotation plan mostly complete: Our Crop-Rotation plan (pdf)
Now I’ve just got to dig and manure the remaining beds, and buy a million-or-so seeds. It’ll be interesting to see if reality even slightly matches the plan . . .
