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61 Tomewin Mountain Road, Currumbin Valley, Qld 4223
Currumbin Valley House Here are some links to look at the place we're looking into at the moment to give you an idea of what we're looking at. ..................... A few different perspectives... ..................... The owner in the last video showed Matty around today & seems to be a genuine guy. Was very helpful & has given us his details to ask questions. ..................... This is the Real Estate add:https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-currumbin+valley-137578502 ..................... Virtual walkthrough video of the two houses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIZFe38YW8 ..................... Interview with the owner about the property:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zow1ifoTXA_________________________________________
Bamboo - the giant grass ... https://www.bambooland.com.au/useful-info/about-bamboo
Waste water treatment
Bamboo has the capacity for very high nitrogen uptake. This makes it ideal for mitigation of waste water pollution and disposal of effluents. Waste water from manufacturing, livestock farming and sewerage treatment plants can be used to irrigate bamboo crops, thus converting the waste water into useful biomass.
It can also be used to treat water run-off from agricultural land. Most farming adds soil nutrients to waterways from pastures and cultivated fields. This water clouds and poisons clean water. Planted alongside rivers, creeks and ditches and holding dams, bamboo can catch these excess nutrients in the run-off water thus preventing harmful run-off from entering nearby streams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambusa_oldhamii
https://www.ohmyfoodrecipes.com/how-to-prepare-bamboo-shoots/
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The REAL FRUIT NINJA | Cutting Skills Of A Master Sushi Chef
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Basic PIGEON Breeding Requirments
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Bilimbi fruit are extremely sour, yellow-green fruit with a thin, soft skin and crunchy, juicy flesh. The oblong-shaped fruit have five discernible ribs. A cross section of the fruit reveals a five-point star within, accentuating pentagonal shape of the fruit. The fruit resemble smooth-skinned gherkins. They grow in clusters on bushy trees with green leaves and attractive red-purple flowers. There may be several pale, small, flat seeds embedded in each fruit. Bilimbi fruit are also referred to as Tree Cucumbers and Belimbing, and are known for their tart-tangy flesh ... READ MORE HERE
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Cassava, also known as 'manihot', is the third largest source of carbohydrate in the human diet. It's prized in Africa because it tolerates long winter droughts and summer rains.
Jerry says, "It's these qualities that make cassava an ideal choice for my Brisbane food garden."
Cassava is a frost sensitive, woody shrub in the euphorbia family. Most people will have eaten it as tapioca, which is made from cassava flour.
The leaves are high in protein which is unusual for leafy greens, and the swollen roots are a source of starch, just like potato.
As nourishing as cassava is, all parts of the plant are poisonous until cooked because it contains cyanide compounds.
Jerry says, "Before you panic, it's all in the preparation. Use fresh, white cassava from the garden and boil the roots for 20 minutes. Just boil or steam the leaves for 2 minutes and they're perfectly safe to eat."
Autumn is the time to propagate cassava and it's very easy to grow, using cuttings of old, mature brown wood.
Cut a number of stems approximately 30cm long. Place them on the ground and cover lightly with soil or potting mix.
Keep them slightly moist and, over winter each node will sprout and produce a separate plant. Cut them apart in spring.
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Peanut Companion Plants – Learn About Companion Planting With PeanutsPeanuts ... By: Bonnie L. Grant, Certified Urban AgriculturistGrowing Peanuts Just for Fun10 May 2013, written by Barbara Pleasant
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Brunswick Wholesale Plants (BWP) is a long established wholesale citrus specialist nursery and is situated on the Far North Coast of New South Wales.
In 1990 John and his wife Gloria established the business specializing in budded citrus trees for the retail and orchardist market. BWP is still owned and managed by John & Gloria Mills.
The ethos at BWP is to grow a high quality citrus tree at a fair price in compliance with NSW Government Horticultural standards. Large and small orders are all dealt with equal importance by the team.
Continually delivering a high quality product season after season is a result of the care taken in all aspects of the business including quality soils, healthy water sources, immaculate maintenance and hail netting for total protection.
BWP is well situated and has consistent and reliable weekly transport links to most states in Australia. Pride is taken in each order with trees palleted and wrapped for transport where possible to avoid damage from over handling during transport. BWP stand by their product with all new varieties tried and tested on the property before being produced for sale.
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It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and petioles.
Taro corms are a food staple in African, Oceanic, and South Asian cultures (similar to yams), and taro is believed to have been one of the earliest cultivated plants.
COKO NOTES
CHOKO ... Chayote (Sechium edule), also known as mirliton, güisquil, pimpinela and choko, is an edible plant belonging to the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. This fruit was first cultivated in the Mesoamericas between southern Mexico and Honduras. In Australia 'chokos' have the potential to be a staple veg once past prejudices are overcome . ... GO TO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chayote
Ways to Use the Humble Choko Vine
It's spring time in Australia, and in Far North Queensland they received a decent fall of rain. There they are apparently gleefully anticipating the springing to life of our un-irrigated areas that had gone dull and dormant during the dry season. Among other things, I’m looking forward again to abundant chokos – that much disparaged veg of my youth
Back then when I was living in the 'meat and 3veg era 'chokos' were a bland, boring vegetable that most didn’t like skinning, didn’t like eating it with the skin on, didn’t like eating undercooked, didn’t like them being tough and didn’t like them overcooked, watery and unappetizing mush. Then again a lot of food then was BLOODYboring!
Add to that the bags chokos that throughout the summer people would give you chokos and they were just… blah, blah, blah. Or so I thought until I discovered different. However, my Gran made 'apple pie' with chokos, dried apple, cloves and spices and that was quite good.
Then I found out, like a lot of thing, that we just don’t know how to make effective use of this generous, abundant, easy to grow plant – and I started paying more attention. But sadly I also thought that you couldn't grow them in TASMANIA. AGAIN, I was wrong!
Here are some ways to make use of choko vines and fruits now that I have have found out that one can grow them in TASMANIA.
One can put all the tiny tender little bits into salads. The smallest little nut sized chokos are great in salads, along with the tender tips of the vines, the tiny, shiny, newest leaves, and the curling tendrils.
One can cook the small to medium sized chokos. If you pick them before they are tough and big, there is no need to peel or to remove the seed. This was a revelation for me before I found out that they can grow in nTASMANIA and that they can figure large in Asian cooking. The seed of these smaller chokos tastes pleasant and probably adds some nutrition, and the skin is not at all tough. Steamed small choko is one of my favorite vegetable.
One can feed the vines to to chooks, guinea pigs, who convert it into fruit tree food. Chooks love the leaves and vines, young or old. They probably would eat the chokos, too, but hey there are other things to do with them. Anyway chokos come out the back end of chooks as manure, which is a much more nutrient dense product for the soil around plants and trees.
One can feed the large, tough fruit and the excess vines to animals. They will eat all parts of the choko plant, at any stage. It’s not their favorite food but they will happily munch on choko fruits and vines if there is nothing else on offer, and it makes a great addition to their diet for the days one can’t find much other plant food for them.
Goats and cattle will eat the large, old chokos, roughly chopped. They’d eat the young tender ones, and probably the vines too, if they were invited.
Excess vines, and spent vines at the end of winter, make great mulch and are easy to pull down from where-ever they’ve climbed to. In the growing season, in the absence of something to climb up, choko vines will ramble across the ground, forming a living mulch that’s easy to pull away when you no longer want it there.
Volumes of easily produced plant material that can be used for mulch or in compost is something if one placed a high value on them in that regard. Plants that will do this with no effort on anyone's part and are thus welcome helpers in the garden.
One can trial growing chokos on fences where one has weeds and grasses growing up through the fence that are difficult to clear out. In the hope that when the vines get thick enough, they might shade out the weeds. The jury is still out on this one.
Bonus extra:
One reads that choko plants form a storage tuber underground that you can eat. But they'll shoot from this tuber yfor years why do it and kill one's vines???
