Time for a new thread.

And, in my el cheapo hot house made of plastic, we have germination of tomatoes (brown berry/violet jasper/mortgage lifter/ananas noir) and capsicums (Italian fryers/mini sweet). Still some others to show themselves, but it’s a start.

The Eggplants up this way do not know how to stop…

painmaster said:

The Eggplants up this way do not know how to stop…

They are the same down here but the frosts eventually burn them off.

Average rainfall to Sep 291.0mm 57.0 day(s)
Total for 2016 426.4mm 87 day(s

roughbarked said:

Average rainfall to Sep 291.0mm 57.0 day(s)
Total for 2016 426.4mm 87 day(s

good numbers there.

Let’s see, what is ours…

average rainfall to Sep = 911.4 over 49 days
2016 so far = 884.2mm over 62 days.

The 558mm in March certainly helped although none of that fell into our Dam which is now at 19% and we’re on water restrictions level 3. Although I have seen three infringements this week it may appear that no one is listening.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Average rainfall to Sep 291.0mm 57.0 day(s)
Total for 2016 426.4mm 87 day(s

good numbers there.

Let’s see, what is ours…

average rainfall to Sep = 911.4 over 49 days
2016 so far = 884.2mm over 62 days.

The 558mm in March certainly helped although none of that fell into our Dam which is now at 19% and we’re on water restrictions level 3. Although I have seen three infringements this week it may appear that no one is listening.

People still use water if it is there to use. Hope your dam fills before summer.

Up again today by 26.2 mm. Average rainfall to Sep 291.0mm 57.0 day(s)
Total for 2016 452.4mm 88 day(s)

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

Average rainfall to Sep 291.0mm 57.0 day(s)
Total for 2016 426.4mm 87 day(s

good numbers there.

Let’s see, what is ours…

average rainfall to Sep = 911.4 over 49 days
2016 so far = 884.2mm over 62 days.

The 558mm in March certainly helped although none of that fell into our Dam which is now at 19% and we’re on water restrictions level 3. Although I have seen three infringements this week it may appear that no one is listening.

People still use water if it is there to use. Hope your dam fills before summer.

Up again today by 26.2 mm. Average rainfall to Sep 291.0mm 57.0 day(s)
Total for 2016 452.4mm 88 day(s)

unfortunately our rains come at the end of summer, so we’re hoping this wet season fills it… I have seen it go from 4% to 110% in one week in February many years ago…

Just had an old acquaintance knock on the door. Pushy type.. He wanted to know if I had any grafted Eucalypts. After I explained that it is no easy thing and there is no real need to graft them, he explained that he had recently purchased Premier Nursery and that the opportunity existed for me to go into doing it on his premises.

I shook his hand and said “commiserations”, I’ve gone back into watch and clock repairs and when I called up a spare parts provider and told him I was back after forty years away, he said “you poor bastard”.

Typical of profiteering types, he wanted me to graft these red summer Eucalypts. “they sell for $35”. @ at a foot tall. I said, you’ll need to be paying royalties. You can buy a seedling a foot tall for 80 cents.

hmm… don’t like my chances of getting that one…

Got a confirmation email back, signed…

Regards,
Xxxxx Xxxxx
Aboriginal Recruitment Programs Coordinator

Roughbarked, I finally found out what those green caterpillars that had eaten circles on my orange skins.. light brown apple moth. Not the biggest of pests but do some damage to citrus groves. They’re the codling moth of citrus and some other fruits.

Happy Potter said:

Roughbarked, I finally found out what those green caterpillars that had eaten circles on my orange skins.. light brown apple moth. Not the biggest of pests but do some damage to citrus groves. They’re the codling moth of citrus and some other fruits.

OK. Yes they sometimes get outbreaks of them.

The whizz bang duck house is taking shape

bluegreen said:

The whizz bang duck house is taking shape

She’s a whizbanger all right.

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

The whizz bang duck house is taking shape

She’s a whizbanger all right.

Bigpela whizbanger stap!

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

bluegreen said:

The whizz bang duck house is taking shape

She’s a whizbanger all right.

Bigpela whizbanger stap!

Yeah! I wanted something big enough to leave the ducks in when I am away, and something I can stand up straight in. There will be two runs.