Yum ... feta and wtf is that !

9:51 PM apples, fruit fly, hot, stick insect, thermometer No Comments

Yum ... feta We decided to try some Feta  with a few herbs in oil.  Soaked for a few days.. wow.  Awesome, as opposed to the goats milk feta from a previous blog post ! Hard at work with the feta in flavoured oil Hotter This year we didn't have a Spring to speak of and it's been quite hot. Trying to live with a low environmental footprint, we have no A/C etc and on a warm day (as it was on Sunday !) it reminded me of how effective  the mud brick construction and closed...

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the stink !

5:25 PM spangled drongo, stink bugs No Comments

You Drongo ! We know when we start to see these around Spangled Drongo that we will have these on the citrus. The aptly named Stink Bug, 4th instars Nymph stage Sure enough..... there they are, Stink Bugs !  and it's time to spend a few hours picking them off the trees. Being sap suckers, they can do quite a bit of damage.  We usually do 2 rounds, about 2 weeks apart, collecting 100's each time by hand, into a bucket of water with some washing liquid..  Only takes...

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