Morning all.

Yup

Fine here…prolly be dry too…

I see where the pool will be open today…“we” are getting a new pool, Olympic length (again) but with 10 lanes instead of 6…won’t be any room for the peeps soon…

Hellooo spring :)
Good morning green ones.
Not that it looks or feels like spring, ‘tis cold and grey. But I can plan.
Where I removed the compost heap is perfect for a 2.5 mt growing rhodendron.. dappled shade, perfect soil, and it will hide the side of that shed, something I have wanted to do for ages. I can’t mosaic it as two mosaics will ‘compete’ with each other and be overdoing it.
Where to plant sunflowers..I will have to do a garden walkabout and find spots for about 200 of them.

And what to do with large potted patio ornamentals. Unfortunately I may have to do some cullling. One mega fat but short trunked tree fern has 2.5 mt fronds, that can be given away or sold, but one chinese fan palm with vicious thorns and two huge tree philodendrons are getting too big. I can’t see how to cut them to a more manageable size. They have singular trunks with no side growth for taking cuttings, and they’re not good to give away either as they’re too heavy to be lifted. Hmmm..

I’d take the tree fern but it is a long drive. Why not just plant it in the garden?

roughbarked said:

I’d take the tree fern but it is a long drive. Why not just plant it in the garden?

It’s a full house!
Lot’s going on, or will be, but still probably no room for the big pot plants. Unless.. nope, need the carport for cars lol.
Once I kill the C. stricta the potted rhodys will go there along south facing front house wall and that will free up the patio. But the patio roof is still not high enough for the lovely big plants.
The tree fern can stay for a while as I’ll cut the present wintered fronds off soon as new ones start emerging. I’ve another tree fern in the fernery that is going to get too big too. It has a more slender trunk but the fronds are too wide, has about 100 newies emerging and one resident male terrified of spiders won’t go past it. As I cut out ferns in there I replace them with minature tree ferns. Makes the home more peaceful.
Let me know when you have a possible trip to the big smoke. You can have both.
I didn’t buy either of these tree ferns, they were birfday pressies. Easy to buy for a gardener and non plant people often buy unsuitable plants..

I had an appointment to see my shoulder surgeon today for cortisone jabs to relieve the pain of a frozen shoulder. But guess what…..I don’t have to go. I have no pain, it’s ‘gone away’ so I don’t have to see the doc until end of Oct. I’m completely off any painkillers too. I spoke to his resident physiotherapist who I see each time I go there and she was scratching her head..adhesive capsulitus doesn’t just ‘go away’ and nowhere near this quickly.
It hasn’t and I still can’t raise my arm fully, but since the op I couldn’t lift my arm away from being glued to my side, now I can raise it to shoulder height and outwards. I can put my hands on my hips. Heck, I can now brush my hair!! yay! lol. She said that I “shouldn’t be able to do that, you’re still in stage one of the condition”. Stage 2 is completely frozen and one can break their arm if it’s forced. She warned me this may be happening early.
But I know it’s not and I know why and I didn’t say why. I will just take the jar of pawpaw cream with me to the next appt and stick it in their faces. :D

I didn’t get the job. Couple of other possibilities in the pipeline though.

bluegreen said:

I didn’t get the job. Couple of other possibilities in the pipeline though.

Ok. I hope something better comes your way soon :)

There’s a lervely smell of lentil cottage pie cooking :D

bluegreen said:

I didn’t get the job. Couple of other possibilities in the pipeline though.

Did I hear a sigh of relief, BlueGreen?

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

I didn’t get the job. Couple of other possibilities in the pipeline though.

Did I hear a sigh of relief, BlueGreen?

lol! I could do better but I would have taken it if it was offered.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

I didn’t get the job. Couple of other possibilities in the pipeline though.

Did I hear a sigh of relief, BlueGreen?

lol! I could do better but I would have taken it if it was offered.

I worked in the Golden Circle factory at Nundah once, for a few weeks…my children said “why?” and I said “I didn’t want to be unemployed”. Hate pineapples but worked in the line where you cut the eyes out…we had rubber gloves and barrier cream…but the juice fell onto my feet, through my Volleys (before joggers came out, we’re talking 1978 here) and my toes stuck to my Volleys…one of my big toes had this big sore from where I used to just pull the shoe off and the skin would stick…my first job there was rubbing the ink off tins, using orange oil…another job was peeling bananas…I met so many interesting people and was quite sad to be put off…and then I went to the public service…but I’ve always been grateful to Golden Circle for that wage for six weeks…

Hello all, just popping in..

I saw this on the ABC News site and thought of you lot (especially PM and RB):

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/09/01/3307560.htm

Richard describes himself as “one half of a pair of grey nomads, permanently on tour around Australia – slowly – in a motorhome with our two small dogs.”
He’s also travelling with a purpose – to photograph as many of Australia’s 800-plus endemic bird species as possible.

(I’ve been pretty busy so haven’t had the time to stop by the forum for quite a while – hope everyone’s well)

bon008 said:

Hello all, just popping in..

I saw this on the ABC News site and thought of you lot (especially PM and RB):

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/09/01/3307560.htm

Richard describes himself as “one half of a pair of grey nomads, permanently on tour around Australia – slowly – in a motorhome with our two small dogs.”
He’s also travelling with a purpose – to photograph as many of Australia’s 800-plus endemic bird species as possible.

(I’ve been pretty busy so haven’t had the time to stop by the forum for quite a while – hope everyone’s well)

Hello Bon, we were wondering about you the other week, hoping your health was holding up…good to see your name in lights

:)

bon008 said:

Hello all, just popping in..

I saw this on the ABC News site and thought of you lot (especially PM and RB):

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/09/01/3307560.htm

Richard describes himself as “one half of a pair of grey nomads, permanently on tour around Australia – slowly – in a motorhome with our two small dogs.”
He’s also travelling with a purpose – to photograph as many of Australia’s 800-plus endemic bird species as possible.

(I’ve been pretty busy so haven’t had the time to stop by the forum for quite a while – hope everyone’s well)

I was down at the end of my street today collecting cuttings of Eremophila and Acacia and wondered where Neil was.. called his wife this evening and found that he was out camping in the bush trying to find rare birds. Informed her that the sparrowhaks are doing well and raising a new brood.

Hi Bon! good to see you. How good would it be to just take off in a campervan and head for the hills. Sigh :)

Dinetta said:

Hello Bon, we were wondering about you the other week, hoping your health was holding up…good to see your name in lights

:)

Thanks DInetta. That’s kind of the reason I haven’t been around – my health has been so good that I’ve been flat out at work, and flat out gardening etc at home :)

Happy Potter said:

Hi Bon! good to see you. How good would it be to just take off in a campervan and head for the hills. Sigh :)

Hi HP :) Read your earlier post about your shoulder, glad to hear it’s healing so well! :)

bon008 said:

Happy Potter said:

Hi Bon! good to see you. How good would it be to just take off in a campervan and head for the hills. Sigh :)

Hi HP :) Read your earlier post about your shoulder, glad to hear it’s healing so well! :)

Thanks Bon :)
I spent 40 mins tonight on the blower to my retired nurse sis in Brissy. I was telling her about my shoulder healing and the cream and she used words like ‘bulls**t, yer right”, and “I don’t believe it”. So I told her to get some for her knee pain and her hubbys eczema and arthritis in his hand and prove me wrong. The bets on. If it doesn’t do what I said it will then I will reimburse her the cost.
Eldest daughter called in tonight, haven’t seen her in weeks. She asked me what had I done because “you look different, better somehow”.
I replied “oh that, just my wrinkles are dissappearing”………

bon008 said:

Hello all, just popping in..

I saw this on the ABC News site and thought of you lot (especially PM and RB):

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/09/01/3307560.htm

Richard describes himself as “one half of a pair of grey nomads, permanently on tour around Australia – slowly – in a motorhome with our two small dogs.”
He’s also travelling with a purpose – to photograph as many of Australia’s 800-plus endemic bird species as possible.

(I’ve been pretty busy so haven’t had the time to stop by the forum for quite a while – hope everyone’s well)

only 250 so far? I’ve taken that many in Townsville alone… there’s 325 for this region apparently.

pain master said:

bon008 said:

Hello all, just popping in..

I saw this on the ABC News site and thought of you lot (especially PM and RB):

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/09/01/3307560.htm

Richard describes himself as “one half of a pair of grey nomads, permanently on tour around Australia – slowly – in a motorhome with our two small dogs.”
He’s also travelling with a purpose – to photograph as many of Australia’s 800-plus endemic bird species as possible.

(I’ve been pretty busy so haven’t had the time to stop by the forum for quite a while – hope everyone’s well)

only 250 so far? I’ve taken that many in Townsville alone… there’s 325 for this region apparently.

Wetlands typically have from 200 to 300 species.. drylands will have zero, unless you can sit by a puddle.

bon008 said:

Dinetta said:

Hello Bon, we were wondering about you the other week, hoping your health was holding up…good to see your name in lights

:)

Thanks DInetta. That’s kind of the reason I haven’t been around – my health has been so good that I’ve been flat out at work, and flat out gardening etc at home :)

Don’t burst a boiler…

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

bon008 said:

Hello all, just popping in..

I saw this on the ABC News site and thought of you lot (especially PM and RB):

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2011/09/01/3307560.htm

Richard describes himself as “one half of a pair of grey nomads, permanently on tour around Australia – slowly – in a motorhome with our two small dogs.”
He’s also travelling with a purpose – to photograph as many of Australia’s 800-plus endemic bird species as possible.

(I’ve been pretty busy so haven’t had the time to stop by the forum for quite a while – hope everyone’s well)

only 250 so far? I’ve taken that many in Townsville alone… there’s 325 for this region apparently.

Wetlands typically have from 200 to 300 species.. drylands will have zero, unless you can sit by a puddle.

You also need vegetation cover…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

only 250 so far? I’ve taken that many in Townsville alone… there’s 325 for this region apparently.

Wetlands typically have from 200 to 300 species.. drylands will have zero, unless you can sit by a puddle.

You also need vegetation cover…

All is relative.. Vegetation pulls water from the air.. if it actually exists there.

When I say drylands .. I really mean it.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Wetlands typically have from 200 to 300 species.. drylands will have zero, unless you can sit by a puddle.

You also need vegetation cover…

All is relative.. Vegetation pulls water from the air.. if it actually exists there.

When I say drylands .. I really mean it.

yet the Peruvian Song Sparrow can live in the Atacama Desert?

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Wetlands typically have from 200 to 300 species.. drylands will have zero, unless you can sit by a puddle.

You also need vegetation cover…

All is relative.. Vegetation pulls water from the air.. if it actually exists there.

When I say drylands .. I really mean it.

I agree with you re the water: another person on another forum set up on farmland beside a national park, no birds…she put in some bird baths and they’ve come to stay!

My point with the vegetation is, the little fellers such as the finches and wrens, won’t move where there’s no shelter, they need shrubs and trees (scrub) to provide shelter for movement…

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

You also need vegetation cover…

All is relative.. Vegetation pulls water from the air.. if it actually exists there.

When I say drylands .. I really mean it.

yet the Peruvian Song Sparrow can live in the Atacama Desert?

I thought we were speaking of Australian birds…?

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

You also need vegetation cover…

All is relative.. Vegetation pulls water from the air.. if it actually exists there.

When I say drylands .. I really mean it.

yet the Peruvian Song Sparrow can live in the Atacama Desert?

What are known as “fog-zone plant communities” have developed due to the entrapment of clouds by mountains or steep coastal slopes. These communities lie near the coast and in lower portions of numerous gorges between sea level and 1,100 m. Short-lived perennial and woody scrub vegetation grow there.

Other areas receive marine fog, providing sufficient moisture for hypolithic algae, lichens, and even some cacti. In these areas, even decomposition does not occur. Dead vegetation may be thousands of years old. A recent innovation has made it possible to catch water from the air. With the use of mesh nets, water is trapped and trickled off via piping into storage tanks.

In the southern desert, fog-zone vegetation supports approximately 230 species of vascular plants. Included are the dominant species of Euphorbia lactiflua and Eulychnia iquiquensis. Other shrubby species in the zone include Echinopsis coquimbana, Oxalis gigantea, Lycium stenophyllum, Proustia cuneifolia, Croton chilensis, Balbisia penduncularis, and Tillandsia geissei. Bromeliads are also present along the coastal flats in this southern part, and include Deuterocohni chrysantha and Puya boliviensis.

Astrobiologists are studying the Atacama to discover clues which may unlock secrets of life on other planets and the possibility of survival there. They are also studying the growth of plants in extreme places in order to develop plants that could be grown off—world.

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

All is relative.. Vegetation pulls water from the air.. if it actually exists there.

When I say drylands .. I really mean it.

yet the Peruvian Song Sparrow can live in the Atacama Desert?

I thought we were speaking of Australian birds…?

The fog-zone plant communities, or lomas, provide a friendlier environment. Birds such as the Peruvian song-sparrow, Pacific blue-black grassquit, and hummingbirds live there, for at least a portion of the year.

roughbarked said:

What are known as “fog-zone plant communities” have developed due to the entrapment of clouds by mountains or steep coastal slopes. These communities lie near the coast and in lower portions of numerous gorges between sea level and 1,100 m. Short-lived perennial and woody scrub vegetation grow there.

Other areas receive marine fog, providing sufficient moisture for hypolithic algae, lichens, and even some cacti. In these areas, even decomposition does not occur. Dead vegetation may be thousands of years old. A recent innovation has made it possible to catch water from the air. With the use of mesh nets, water is trapped and trickled off via piping into storage tanks.

In the southern desert, fog-zone vegetation supports approximately 230 species of vascular plants. Included are the dominant species of Euphorbia lactiflua and Eulychnia iquiquensis. Other shrubby species in the zone include Echinopsis coquimbana, Oxalis gigantea, Lycium stenophyllum, Proustia cuneifolia, Croton chilensis, Balbisia penduncularis, and Tillandsia geissei. Bromeliads are also present along the coastal flats in this southern part, and include Deuterocohni chrysantha and Puya boliviensis.

Astrobiologists are studying the Atacama to discover clues which may unlock secrets of life on other planets and the possibility of survival there. They are also studying the growth of plants in extreme places in order to develop plants that could be grown off—world.

Fascinating…enjoyed that read…

“Like”, RoughBarked…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

What are known as “fog-zone plant communities” have developed due to the entrapment of clouds by mountains or steep coastal slopes. These communities lie near the coast and in lower portions of numerous gorges between sea level and 1,100 m. Short-lived perennial and woody scrub vegetation grow there.

Other areas receive marine fog, providing sufficient moisture for hypolithic algae, lichens, and even some cacti. In these areas, even decomposition does not occur. Dead vegetation may be thousands of years old. A recent innovation has made it possible to catch water from the air. With the use of mesh nets, water is trapped and trickled off via piping into storage tanks.

In the southern desert, fog-zone vegetation supports approximately 230 species of vascular plants. Included are the dominant species of Euphorbia lactiflua and Eulychnia iquiquensis. Other shrubby species in the zone include Echinopsis coquimbana, Oxalis gigantea, Lycium stenophyllum, Proustia cuneifolia, Croton chilensis, Balbisia penduncularis, and Tillandsia geissei. Bromeliads are also present along the coastal flats in this southern part, and include Deuterocohni chrysantha and Puya boliviensis.

Astrobiologists are studying the Atacama to discover clues which may unlock secrets of life on other planets and the possibility of survival there. They are also studying the growth of plants in extreme places in order to develop plants that could be grown off—world.

Fascinating…enjoyed that read…

“Like”, RoughBarked…

Most Australian weather websites, list precipitation at 5% chance of 1 mm for every day of the year. This is not due to the fact that there is a chance of rain. It relates to the fact that on most days of the year the morning dew will be in the vicinity of 1 mm or less.

Very interesting RB :)
Morning all.

roughbarked said:

Most Australian weather websites, list precipitation at 5% chance of 1 mm for every day of the year. This is not due to the fact that there is a chance of rain. It relates to the fact that on most days of the year the morning dew will be in the vicinity of 1 mm or less.

To me, dryland means those areas that rely on natural precipitation in order to grow crops. It can include scrub and bushland in these areas.

I distinguish between dryland (as above) and outright desert.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Most Australian weather websites, list precipitation at 5% chance of 1 mm for every day of the year. This is not due to the fact that there is a chance of rain. It relates to the fact that on most days of the year the morning dew will be in the vicinity of 1 mm or less.

To me, dryland means those areas that rely on natural precipitation in order to grow crops. It can include scrub and bushland in these areas.

I distinguish between dryland (as above) and outright desert.

Fair enough.

Jan-Sept 2011 = 388.8mm 68 day(s)

WOW!

that has already gone way over the annual average(for here).

roughbarked said:

Jan-Sept 2011 = 388.8mm 68 day(s)

WOW!

that has already gone way over the annual average(for here).

467mm over 58 days has yet to reach the average of 699mm here. last year got to 961mm.

here it is:
total for 2011
1335.8mm

trichome said:

here it is:
total for 2011
1335.8mm

:P

you’re in the tropics/subtropics though, aren’t you?

roughbarked said:

Jan-Sept 2011 = 388.8mm 68 day(s)

WOW!

that has already gone way over the annual average(for here).

Well done!
We’re going to get some decent rain in a few days apparently so I’m gearing up to catch some. The gigalitre pondy tub was emptied over the past weeks and then cleaned out. The man leans into it and pulls a rubber bung out then I give it a swish out with the hose then he puts the ‘plug’ back in. It fills quickly even with light rain. Other big barrels are in situ.

bluegreen said:

trichome said:

here it is:
total for 2011
1335.8mm

:P

you’re in the tropics/subtropics though, aren’t you?

yes, wet coastal subtropics, infact it is raining now, well a bit of a shower :)

We got some ‘getting ready for spring’ gardening jobs done, yay! Well more ‘he’ than she’ but I made us nice lemon drinks between supervising jobs :D
Pondy tub flushed and ready to fill, a pink rhododendron planted out in the former compost spot, new compost pile started, a couple big pot plants moved, a leaking hose fixed and heaps of pruning. There’s a big pile of prunings to get chopped up.
Coffee n cake time.

I’ve started on digging out the 4 truck tyres in the yard. These were half buried vertically for kids to play on and every time I look at them I think of what I could plant in them if they were lying down instead. I have got the first one sort of dug out but as it is half full of dirt I will have to clean that out before I can move it to its new spot. Giving my back a break first though. Wish I knew where I put my trowel. Haven’t seen it in months!

bluegreen said:

I’ve started on digging out the 4 truck tyres in the yard. These were half buried vertically for kids to play on and every time I look at them I think of what I could plant in them if they were lying down instead. I have got the first one sort of dug out but as it is half full of dirt I will have to clean that out before I can move it to its new spot. Giving my back a break first though. Wish I knew where I put my trowel. Haven’t seen it in months!

1 tyre moved. That’s it for me. needs to be filled with compost then I can grow something in it. 3 more to go…. (but not today, or this next week…)

roughbarked said:

Jan-Sept 2011 = 388.8mm 68 day(s)

WOW!

that has already gone way over the annual average(for here).

That can only be good news…

bluegreen said:

bluegreen said:

I’ve started on digging out the 4 truck tyres in the yard. These were half buried vertically for kids to play on and every time I look at them I think of what I could plant in them if they were lying down instead. I have got the first one sort of dug out but as it is half full of dirt I will have to clean that out before I can move it to its new spot. Giving my back a break first though. Wish I knew where I put my trowel. Haven’t seen it in months!

1 tyre moved. That’s it for me. needs to be filled with compost then I can grow something in it. 3 more to go…. (but not today, or this next week…)

Congratulations on a job well done, BlueGreen

You know you will see that trowel when you are not looking for it, and you will be urgently busy with something else??? Then you won’t remember where it was, again…I speak with the voice of experience…

Wattle day has come bbut not entirely gone yet..

roughbarked said:

Wattle day has come bbut not entirely gone yet..

Noice!

Ours are just about finished, a couple of months late here…

Acacia pycnantha

bluegreen said:

I’ve started on digging out the 4 truck tyres in the yard. These were half buried vertically for kids to play on and every time I look at them I think of what I could plant in them if they were lying down instead. I have got the first one sort of dug out but as it is half full of dirt I will have to clean that out before I can move it to its new spot. Giving my back a break first though. Wish I knew where I put my trowel. Haven’t seen it in months!

If you want to find it, buy a new one. they always surface then!

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

bluegreen said:

I’ve started on digging out the 4 truck tyres in the yard. These were half buried vertically for kids to play on and every time I look at them I think of what I could plant in them if they were lying down instead. I have got the first one sort of dug out but as it is half full of dirt I will have to clean that out before I can move it to its new spot. Giving my back a break first though. Wish I knew where I put my trowel. Haven’t seen it in months!

1 tyre moved. That’s it for me. needs to be filled with compost then I can grow something in it. 3 more to go…. (but not today, or this next week…)

Congratulations on a job well done, BlueGreen

You know you will see that trowel when you are not looking for it, and you will be urgently busy with something else??? Then you won’t remember where it was, again…I speak with the voice of experience…

Yep that too. I have 3 hand trowels now..

trichome said:

Acacia pycnantha

Thanks Trichome but if you right clicked on the image, you have been told that.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

Acacia pycnantha

Thanks Trichome but if you right clicked on the image, you have been told that.

No. Not in FireFox, anyhow…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

Acacia pycnantha

Thanks Trichome but if you right clicked on the image, you have been told that.

No. Not in FireFox, anyhow…

I use Firefox.

but I didn’t give the correct link http://www.flickr.com/photos/99559986@N00/6102330031/

saw Bananas for $4 per kilo today, but seeing as mine are $0 per kilo, I still cannot justify paying such exorbitant prices!

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Thanks Trichome but if you right clicked on the image, you have been told that.

No. Not in FireFox, anyhow…

I use Firefox.

but I didn’t give the correct link http://www.flickr.com/photos/99559986@N00/6102330031/

that works betterer :)

I’m b-a-c-k. Miss me?

We’ve had 3 inches of rain since I’ve been away. Lovely to see all the green shooting again.

My Dutch Iris are flowering. I’m pleased to be able to say that they are definately dutch iris after 3 years waiting to find out. thanks everyone for your imput on my questions about this particular plant. You can all rest easy now.

the pesky bandicoot has had his escapades nipped in the bud, at last. The only problem now is that neither D or I can get into the gardens either. LOL.

pain master said:

saw Bananas for $4 per kilo today, but seeing as mine are $0 per kilo, I still cannot justify paying such exorbitant prices!

$6-7 at the green grocer and $2kg at the roadside stalls around here :)

pain master said:

saw Bananas for $4 per kilo today, but seeing as mine are $0 per kilo, I still cannot justify paying such exorbitant prices!

Lady fingers are cheaper than cavandish atm and that’s very rare round here.

Painmaster. You ever check your cityphoto mail?

pomolo said:

Painmaster. You ever check your cityphoto mail?

ive been away… and ooops no. hang on.

pomolo said:

Painmaster. You ever check your cityphoto mail?

ive responded to your last email (the one you sent on Mon 22nd). Did you get my response?

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Painmaster. You ever check your cityphoto mail?

ive responded to your last email (the one you sent on Mon 22nd). Did you get my response?

No. Never got nuffin.

pomolo said:

I’m b-a-c-k. Miss me?

We’ve had 3 inches of rain since I’ve been away. Lovely to see all the green shooting again.

My Dutch Iris are flowering. I’m pleased to be able to say that they are definately dutch iris after 3 years waiting to find out. thanks everyone for your imput on my questions about this particular plant. You can all rest easy now.

the pesky bandicoot has had his escapades nipped in the bud, at last. The only problem now is that neither D or I can get into the gardens either. LOL.

WB Pomolo.
I’m pleased you didn’t miss the Iris flower show :)

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

I’m b-a-c-k. Miss me?

We’ve had 3 inches of rain since I’ve been away. Lovely to see all the green shooting again.

My Dutch Iris are flowering. I’m pleased to be able to say that they are definately dutch iris after 3 years waiting to find out. thanks everyone for your imput on my questions about this particular plant. You can all rest easy now.

the pesky bandicoot has had his escapades nipped in the bud, at last. The only problem now is that neither D or I can get into the gardens either. LOL.

WB Pomolo.
I’m pleased you didn’t miss the Iris flower show :)

Hey HP. Read the good news about your shoulder. Clever aren’t you?

Mad night here.. JJ is moving to his cousins and other kids are helping him move furniture. He will be living one minute down the road. He doesn’t want to be that far from the food supply! LOL.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

I’m b-a-c-k. Miss me?

We’ve had 3 inches of rain since I’ve been away. Lovely to see all the green shooting again.

My Dutch Iris are flowering. I’m pleased to be able to say that they are definately dutch iris after 3 years waiting to find out. thanks everyone for your imput on my questions about this particular plant. You can all rest easy now.

the pesky bandicoot has had his escapades nipped in the bud, at last. The only problem now is that neither D or I can get into the gardens either. LOL.

WB Pomolo.
I’m pleased you didn’t miss the Iris flower show :)

Hey HP. Read the good news about your shoulder. Clever aren’t you?

Oh yeah! _{shines nails on shirt} hehe

I made a humongous pot of pastry cream for a friend whos doing my cakey orders, for now. She’s making the eclairs (for a cake tower) but asked me to make the filling as my eggs give it a lovely golden colour :)
Chops and bombay spuds and steamed greens for a late tea.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Painmaster. You ever check your cityphoto mail?

ive responded to your last email (the one you sent on Mon 22nd). Did you get my response?

No. Never got nuffin.

bugger.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

Painmaster. You ever check your cityphoto mail?

ive responded to your last email (the one you sent on Mon 22nd). Did you get my response?

No. Never got nuffin.

consider it re-sent.

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

ive responded to your last email (the one you sent on Mon 22nd). Did you get my response?

No. Never got nuffin.

consider it re-sent.

And recieved.

pomolo said:

pain master said:

pomolo said:

No. Never got nuffin.

consider it re-sent.

And recieved.

by the way, I booked an RDO for that day…

pain master said:

pomolo said:

pain master said:

consider it re-sent.

And recieved.

by the way, I booked an RDO for that day…

RDO every day here.

Morning fellas and lurkers. It’s blowin a gale here. I’m glad I haven’t mulched yet.
The orchard bloke came over to check the fruit grafts and took the plastic covering off them, too windy. They are a goer he said :D

passionfruit can be weeds around this district, have to do somethin bad to not have them grow here :)

Arvo. It’s lovely out, apart from very windy.
I’m making some lemon cordial. GS likes it and he won’t drink water without it so I will keep some jars in the freezer for a constant supply. I’m picking up some freecycle goodies for the boy later.. a Sunbeam Vitasteamer and a lamp table with a drawer for his bedside. The steamer is new but the woman wanted a smaller one. The things people throw out..

I found some more portulaca’s coming up and popped them into bare dirt spots in the front garden. I don’t mind if they spread.

Oops, sorry, I got caught in last month’s Chat before.

Time to go for a coffee I think. I hope K has made lemon meringue pie today…I could go a slice of that.

Hi Buffy. :)

for those wondering about flower buds on grafts.. ote, the flower buds come to naught and the leaves start new life on a new rootstock.

for those wondering about flower buds on grafts.. ote, the flower buds come to naught and the leaves start new life on a new rootstock.
——————————————————-
Thanks RB :)
My grafts look like the one on the bottom left.

nearly 13 hours without a post… from anyone.

tumbleweed time?

pain master said:

nearly 13 hours without a post… from anyone.

tumbleweed time?

Almost lol. I’m off to the orchard again shortly, clipboard and pen in hand for another few hours. Rushd brekky, get dressed on the hop, rush rush rush..

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there :D

I’m here. Only just. It’s HP’s fault. I hurt my shoulder while I was pruning yesterday. It only hurts when I breathe so it’s not serious. LOL. More pruning to be done. Hibiscus are next on the list then the oleanders. I’d class them all as trees so they are big jobs. I will probably take it a bit slower today. Don’t want to end up having to have an operation like someone we all know.

Good morning. Had a shower of rain here around 7.00am. That was going to be a bit later in the morning, I thought. Oh well….it brought the snails out, so I can ‘recycle’ them. This involves wandering around and collecting them and delivering them to the chookladies. They love snails. And they recycle them (and various weeds) into eggs.

:)

Happy Potter said:

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there :D

And ditto from me. Don’t you love celebration days. I do.

buffy said:

Good morning. Had a shower of rain here around 7.00am. That was going to be a bit later in the morning, I thought. Oh well….it brought the snails out, so I can ‘recycle’ them. This involves wandering around and collecting them and delivering them to the chookladies. They love snails. And they recycle them (and various weeds) into eggs.

:)

Morning to you Buffy. Happy chook day at your place I see.

They will love me even more a bit later when I do some weeding of nice tender grassy weeds and deliver them too.

Time to walk the dogs.

Hi all. It is happy grandfather’s day for me.. My kids live too far away for presents but my son makes a calendar with photos of grandchildren on it. So, every day of the year .. I get a present.

roughbarked said:

Hi all. It is happy grandfather’s day for me.. My kids live too far away for presents but my son makes a calendar with photos of grandchildren on it. So, every day of the year .. I get a present.

sweet :)

oh, and it’s good morning from me. slept in because I had another stint in the garden yesterday, then a nap, and then didn’t get to sleep until late….

got that tyre half filled with soil and cow manure before I ran out of puff though :)

pain master said:

nearly 13 hours without a post… from anyone.

tumbleweed time?

Local races…Ladies and Tradies day…quite well attended but some of the usual suspects were missing…

roughbarked said:

Hi all. It is happy grandfather’s day for me.. My kids live too far away for presents but my son makes a calendar with photos of grandchildren on it. So, every day of the year .. I get a present.

Our “present” is to sit around and eat together for once…I don’t know what’s happened to my family meals…

Very kind thought from your son, RoughBarked…I suppose it’s his thank-you for letting him survive so he could go forth and create more little RoughBarkeds and RoughBarkettes?

bluegreen said:

oh, and it’s good morning from me. slept in because I had another stint in the garden yesterday, then a nap, and then didn’t get to sleep until late….

got that tyre half filled with soil and cow manure before I ran out of puff though :)

It’s a big job…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Hi all. It is happy grandfather’s day for me.. My kids live too far away for presents but my son makes a calendar with photos of grandchildren on it. So, every day of the year .. I get a present.

Our “present” is to sit around and eat together for once…I don’t know what’s happened to my family meals…

Very kind thought from your son, RoughBarked…I suppose it’s his thank-you for letting him survive so he could go forth and create more little RoughBarkeds and RoughBarkettes?

:)

If I have done anything at all well with my life. It was to raise two wonderful adults, who still call me dad. Daughter calls me daddy, she is 33.

roughbarked said:

If I have done anything at all well with my life. It was to raise two wonderful adults, who still call me dad. Daughter calls me daddy, she is 33.

… and kudos to you… :)

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

If I have done anything at all well with my life. It was to raise two wonderful adults, who still call me dad. Daughter calls me daddy, she is 33.

… and kudos to you… :)

Yep, I look in the mirror and tell myself often. The best thing you have done with yourself, is your children.

roughbarked said:

Hi all. It is happy grandfather’s day for me.. My kids live too far away for presents but my son makes a calendar with photos of grandchildren on it. So, every day of the year .. I get a present.

What a great idea.

pomolo said:

I’m here. Only just. It’s HP’s fault. I hurt my shoulder while I was pruning yesterday. It only hurts when I breathe so it’s not serious. LOL. More pruning to be done. Hibiscus are next on the list then the oleanders. I’d class them all as trees so they are big jobs. I will probably take it a bit slower today. Don’t want to end up having to have an operation like someone we all know.

Plans got changed. Pruned the lemonade fruit instead. Thorny bluddy thing it is. I cut off a heap of buds too. Couldn’t help it. Now it’s done and should be right for a few years anyway.

Hibiscus next time.

pain master said:

nearly 13 hours without a post… from anyone.

tumbleweed time?

I’ve been lurking, but I’m not a happy camper. I think I have another abscessed tooth, my dentist is on hols, and I have to wait until tomorrow to see another one that I don’t much trust.

My cat should be seeing the head vet about his heart murmur but he’s been off for weeks with a severe case of shingles, and now that I finally have an appointment for Tuesday I might be in too much pain to go.

I’m totally pissed off.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

If I have done anything at all well with my life. It was to raise two wonderful adults, who still call me dad. Daughter calls me daddy, she is 33.

… and kudos to you… :)

I wish I’d had a daddy like you RB. I never had much of a relationship with my father.

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

If I have done anything at all well with my life. It was to raise two wonderful adults, who still call me dad. Daughter calls me daddy, she is 33.

… and kudos to you… :)

I wish I’d had a daddy like you RB. I never had much of a relationship with my father.

Thank you, bubba louie. What more can I say.

pomolo said:

I’m here. Only just. It’s HP’s fault. I hurt my shoulder while I was pruning yesterday. It only hurts when I breathe so it’s not serious. LOL. More pruning to be done. Hibiscus are next on the list then the oleanders. I’d class them all as trees so they are big jobs. I will probably take it a bit slower today. Don’t want to end up having to have an operation like someone we all know.

Oh Pomolo! ok it’s my fault, dunno how but it just is, lol. You take care.

Back from the orchard and having a cuppa. It rained, pelted down more like, and we’d stop work. Then it stopped and as soon as we got back down into the trees, it poured again. I got drenched three times over and went home looking like a drowned rat.
In the tea room at the mansion there’s some info on fruit trees and one in particular caught my eye. It was about an ‘Australian Sunrise Lime’ which is a cross between three citrus, a native finger lime, cumquat and a mandarine. The fruit in the photo was egg shaped and bright orange/yellow. I would so love one of those, but no one knows anything more about it.

The girls are taking dad and I out to tea later for paella :)

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

nearly 13 hours without a post… from anyone.

tumbleweed time?

I’ve been lurking, but I’m not a happy camper. I think I have another abscessed tooth, my dentist is on hols, and I have to wait until tomorrow to see another one that I don’t much trust.

My cat should be seeing the head vet about his heart murmur but he’s been off for weeks with a severe case of shingles, and now that I finally have an appointment for Tuesday I might be in too much pain to go.

I’m totally pissed off.

:(
commiserations all round (((HUGS)))

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

If I have done anything at all well with my life. It was to raise two wonderful adults, who still call me dad. Daughter calls me daddy, she is 33.

… and kudos to you… :)

I wish I’d had a daddy like you RB. I never had much of a relationship with my father.

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

… and kudos to you… :)

I wish I’d had a daddy like you RB. I never had much of a relationship with my father.

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

It is never too late, mate. ;)

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

I wish I’d had a daddy like you RB. I never had much of a relationship with my father.

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

It is never too late, mate. ;)

Dad is good.

roughbarked said:

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

It is never too late, mate. ;)

When my parents gave me their old car to get around in, I was so grateful that I nearly squeezed the breath out of Dad. He was chuffed. 5 days later he was in hospital in a coma, and 6 days after that, he passed away. For me he was the best Dad in the world and the older I get, the more I realize just how lucky I was.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

It is never too late, mate. ;)

When my parents gave me their old car to get around in, I was so grateful that I nearly squeezed the breath out of Dad. He was chuffed. 5 days later he was in hospital in a coma, and 6 days after that, he passed away. For me he was the best Dad in the world and the older I get, the more I realize just how lucky I was.

I got another thing stuck in my eye now!!!

pain master said:

roughbarked said:

pain master said:

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

It is never too late, mate. ;)

Dad is good.

I’m pleased to hear it. MrD has had his post-race argument with his Dad, so situation normal. My kiddiwinkles also ring him (MrD’s Dad) for Father’s day, I think P’s Dad has more of an appreciation of his grandchildren than he gave himself time for with his children.

I really miss all the handmade stuff from Primary school, tho’.

MrD has gone for a bike ride, about 1½ hours worth. There is a south-westerly blowing so it will be hard work heading out but a shoe-in to get home.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

It is never too late, mate. ;)

When my parents gave me their old car to get around in, I was so grateful that I nearly squeezed the breath out of Dad. He was chuffed. 5 days later he was in hospital in a coma, and 6 days after that, he passed away. For me he was the best Dad in the world and the older I get, the more I realize just how lucky I was.

Boy did I get the quotes wrong there?

Think I’ll head out and peg out the clothes…

pain master said:

I got another thing stuck in my eye now!!!

Judicious use of a tissue will get that out…

Dinetta said:

pain master said:

I got another thing stuck in my eye now!!!

Judicious use of a tissue will get that out…

thanks D…

HONKKKKKKK

pain master said:

thanks D…

HONKKKKKKK

chuckle

Time for a beer I think, watch the duks and Julia head to bed or something…

I noticed some feral tomatoes germinating this afternoon. I have taken that as a sign. I have just put labelled seed into my seed raising box.

I’m not very fussy about how I do it. It’s a polystyrene box with potting mix in it. I think I might have put a layer of compost underneath it, but I can’t recall now. I dibble a hole, drop some seed in, and when they are good and ready they come up. After they make some real leaves, they get moved out into the garden where they are expected to do for themselves. Long time gardening makes you lazy.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there :D

And ditto from me. Don’t you love celebration days. I do.

Just another day, out working, jobs don’t get done if someone isn’t out there doing them.

Sonny Joe scored “Most Improved Forward” at this year’s footy (JRL) club presentations…plus he scored a player’s jersey (#18) that actually fits from the adult RL club that his JRL feeds into … he’s so chuffed…he got “Most Improved Forward” last year too…his Dad says he used to get the “Most IMproved Player” award (if he got any) because he was always so out of condition at the beginning of the season… so all his bike riding, 6 miles over to training and 6 miles back again, have paid off…he looks a lot more trim now than he has for a couple of years…has just taken the dawgs for a walk…

buffy said:

I noticed some feral tomatoes germinating this afternoon. I have taken that as a sign. I have just put labelled seed into my seed raising box.

I’m not very fussy about how I do it. It’s a polystyrene box with potting mix in it. I think I might have put a layer of compost underneath it, but I can’t recall now. I dibble a hole, drop some seed in, and when they are good and ready they come up. After they make some real leaves, they get moved out into the garden where they are expected to do for themselves. Long time gardening makes you lazy.

Sounds like a plan to me…and you’ve got the garden bed prepped, have you?

Veg gardener said:

Just another day, out working, jobs don’t get done if someone isn’t out there doing them.

I’m sure your Papa relates to this…

Dinetta said:

Veg gardener said:

Just another day, out working, jobs don’t get done if someone isn’t out there doing them.

I’m sure your Papa relates to this…

Yep, both spent the day working, i was over at nextdoor on some equipment, and he was working on something in the shed at home, I did ask if they had anything planned and they said nope.

Veg gardener said:

Yep, both spent the day working, i was over at nextdoor on some equipment, and he was working on something in the shed at home, I did ask if they had anything planned and they said nope.

It’s the thought that counts: at least you asked…

gone – gotta get these clothes out before I have to wash them again
L8tr

Dinetta said:

Sonny Joe scored “Most Improved Forward” at this year’s footy (JRL) club presentations…plus he scored a player’s jersey (#18) that actually fits from the adult RL club that his JRL feeds into … he’s so chuffed…he got “Most Improved Forward” last year too…his Dad says he used to get the “Most IMproved Player” award (if he got any) because he was always so out of condition at the beginning of the season… so all his bike riding, 6 miles over to training and 6 miles back again, have paid off…he looks a lot more trim now than he has for a couple of years…has just taken the dawgs for a walk…

Kudos Sonny Joe!

Mr.HP has been showered with bags of his favourite things, chocolates and varying other treats lol!
We decided to get the paella packed and eat it here with most of our kids at home.. they’re a noisy lot.

Max is sound asleep under my desk, totally unfazed by the ruckus. He leapt off the bed and landed weirdly and was limping badly on one front paw, mainly holds it off the floor. I still have some of his pain tabs from his tumor operation so I gave him one. We aren’t seeing a vet at Sunday rates so if he’s not putting it to the floor by tomorrow I will make an appt. If he wasn’t so fluffy I’d slather pawpaw cream on his leg!

bubba louie said:

pain master said:

nearly 13 hours without a post… from anyone.

tumbleweed time?

I’ve been lurking, but I’m not a happy camper. I think I have another abscessed tooth, my dentist is on hols, and I have to wait until tomorrow to see another one that I don’t much trust.

My cat should be seeing the head vet about his heart murmur but he’s been off for weeks with a severe case of shingles, and now that I finally have an appointment for Tuesday I might be in too much pain to go.

I’m totally pissed off.

I feel it for you Bubba.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

I’m here. Only just. It’s HP’s fault. I hurt my shoulder while I was pruning yesterday. It only hurts when I breathe so it’s not serious. LOL. More pruning to be done. Hibiscus are next on the list then the oleanders. I’d class them all as trees so they are big jobs. I will probably take it a bit slower today. Don’t want to end up having to have an operation like someone we all know.

Oh Pomolo! ok it’s my fault, dunno how but it just is, lol. You take care.

I just needed to blame somebody.

Happy Potter said:

Back from the orchard and having a cuppa. It rained, pelted down more like, and we’d stop work. Then it stopped and as soon as we got back down into the trees, it poured again. I got drenched three times over and went home looking like a drowned rat.
In the tea room at the mansion there’s some info on fruit trees and one in particular caught my eye. It was about an ‘Australian Sunrise Lime’ which is a cross between three citrus, a native finger lime, cumquat and a mandarine. The fruit in the photo was egg shaped and bright orange/yellow. I would so love one of those, but no one knows anything more about it.

The girls are taking dad and I out to tea later for paella :)

Can I come?

Dinetta said:

buffy said:

I noticed some feral tomatoes germinating this afternoon. I have taken that as a sign. I have just put labelled seed into my seed raising box.

I’m not very fussy about how I do it. It’s a polystyrene box with potting mix in it. I think I might have put a layer of compost underneath it, but I can’t recall now. I dibble a hole, drop some seed in, and when they are good and ready they come up. After they make some real leaves, they get moved out into the garden where they are expected to do for themselves. Long time gardening makes you lazy.

Sounds like a plan to me…and you’ve got the garden bed prepped, have you?

Prepped? What is that?! Tomatoes taste better if they are made to work, like herbs. I have, however, worked out where the tomatoes were last year so I can put these in a different bit of soil. My veggie beds are all over the place. A bed here, a bed there, odd shapes. So with the exception of corn, which needs to be block planted, my veggies are intermixed. F’rinstance, I just planted young spring onions in between the current lettuces, so when the lettuces come out, the onions can come on. I often underplant corn with peas, and I have also been known to plant zucchini beneath the corn too. It’s a messy thing, but it seems to work.

pain master said:

Dinetta said:

Sonny Joe scored “Most Improved Forward” at this year’s footy (JRL) club presentations…plus he scored a player’s jersey (#18) that actually fits from the adult RL club that his JRL feeds into … he’s so chuffed…he got “Most Improved Forward” last year too…his Dad says he used to get the “Most IMproved Player” award (if he got any) because he was always so out of condition at the beginning of the season… so all his bike riding, 6 miles over to training and 6 miles back again, have paid off…he looks a lot more trim now than he has for a couple of years…has just taken the dawgs for a walk…

Kudos Sonny Joe!

Thanks, on his behalf! LOL!

Happy Potter said:

Max is sound asleep under my desk, totally unfazed by the ruckus. He leapt off the bed and landed weirdly and was limping badly on one front paw, mainly holds it off the floor. I still have some of his pain tabs from his tumor operation so I gave him one. We aren’t seeing a vet at Sunday rates so if he’s not putting it to the floor by tomorrow I will make an appt. If he wasn’t so fluffy I’d slather pawpaw cream on his leg!

Maybe he had a sore paw already but it’s only just manifested itself? Which could explain why he landed weirdly?

buffy said:

Sounds like a plan to me…and you’ve got the garden bed prepped, have you?

Prepped? What is that?!

Prepared, as in you’ve replenished the nutrients in the soil?

Nup. See the rest of what I wrote. I don’t feed tomato plants.

buffy said:

Prepped? What is that?!

Derrrr…got the quotes wrong, again…

Prepared, as in you’ve replenished the nutrients in the soil? I was just showing some interest…

buffy said:

Nup. See the rest of what I wrote. I don’t feed tomato plants.

OK

I do rotate though. Leafy things and broccoli etc get chook poo and feeding and get planted after legumes. Root veggies can follow a leafy lot. Tomatoes and herbs just work hard for themselves and as long as the tomatoes are not going into the same soil as I have grown potatoes or tomatoes in recently they get popped in amongst whatever is going.

Oh, and I intend to plant cornflower seed amongst the corn this year. And last year I grew marigolds in the veggie patch too, which was nice.

One of my veggie beds is rather overrun with Dichondra, but I just dig it out and put it into my native garden and replenish the bed with compost and chook poo and paper shreds and whatever else I can find.

buffy said:

I do rotate though. Leafy things and broccoli etc get chook poo and feeding and get planted after legumes. Root veggies can follow a leafy lot. Tomatoes and herbs just work hard for themselves and as long as the tomatoes are not going into the same soil as I have grown potatoes or tomatoes in recently they get popped in amongst whatever is going.

I generally focus on the tomatoes and then put in things that will grow OK with the tomatoes, e.g. basil, rosemary, sage, aubergine and capsicum…when I grow anything that is…do you have your own chickens or do you source the chook poo from elsewhere?

buffy said:

Oh, and I intend to plant cornflower seed amongst the corn this year. And last year I grew marigolds in the veggie patch too, which was nice.

One of my veggie beds is rather overrun with Dichondra, but I just dig it out and put it into my native garden and replenish the bed with compost and chook poo and paper shreds and whatever else I can find.

I don’t mean to be personal, but did you say a couple of weeks ago that you live at the ‘Bool? (If you live there you’ll know where I mean, lol!) Just interested as one of my daughters lived at Portland for a while last year and I had to travel to and from the ‘Bool to catch the train to Melbourne…

I ask, because the vegetable gardens were an eye-opener…such lush parsley, almost like grass, and the mint and the garlic were amazing!…and they grow year round, apparently…unreal…

Yes Dinetta, I live at Penshurst, 70km North of the Bool and 30km South of Hamilton. But don’t be misled. Last year was the beginning of the breaking of the drought. We bought this house 11 years ago and I have fought this garden hard. Then last year, with rain, it became soooooo much easier! I’d forgotten how easy gardening can be and things came up that I had forgotten about.

Sorry, I put this into the wrong thread:

I have four Speckled Sussex ladies with attitude!

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Chooks/Playingwithchooks225Sept10.jpg

Buschka (the Boxer) plays with them….and they peck her on the nose, through the wire. I also have a 20mx1.3m run that we can push the Chook Tractor up to and let them into.

To give you a bit of an idea of the interplanting, this is a recent photo of the bed that the Dichondra grows in…

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Veggies2July11.jpg

Broccoli, garlic, leeks, beetroot, Dichondra and feverfew in there. At the back is some Lad’s Love (Artemisia) which I intend to hedge up, when it gets big enough.

This bed is really too shaded, but I grow beans up strings to the frame. At the left is a Tamarillo which I have recently butchered to make it go up and umbrella. The lettuces and silver beet seem to be OK there in the shady bit. It stays moister than other bits too, so the leafies do OK.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Veggies1July11.jpg

This one has Dahlias at the back, along the fence, rhubarb, then some broccoli and Brussels Sprouts and parsley at the end. Yes, it does look like lush parsley…..and that lot is selfsown. This bed is the driest of the ones on that side (East) of the block.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Veggies3July11.jpg

Then over on the other side is a new triangular bed, where I put tomatoes last year because it is hot over there on the West side of the block. Presently not much in there. It the back, where the stakes are, are broad beans. There are some lettuces in there too at the moment. I’m going to put three tomatoes in the centre (the tomatoes were around the edge last year) and edge this one with capsicums and eggplants. And some basil will go in there somewhere too. I will dig a trench, bury chook poo (which is mixed with shredded paper that I use in the nests) and then plant on top. Oh and I intend to put a block of corn in there too, next to the broadbeans. Gosh, that sounds messy, doesn’t it!.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Veggies4July11.jpg

I have now turned this bed over to citrus (lemon, lime and orange trees) but a couple of years ago the tomatoes were in there. We are not sewered, so this is where the greywater soaks out of the gravel pit. The lemon tree loves it and the tomatoes did quite well there. Note the rather over enthusiastic pumpkin underplanting……

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/TomatoesMarch07.jpg

So….bored yet?

buffy said:

So….bored yet?

are you kidding?

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Back from the orchard and having a cuppa. It rained, pelted down more like, and we’d stop work. Then it stopped and as soon as we got back down into the trees, it poured again. I got drenched three times over and went home looking like a drowned rat.
In the tea room at the mansion there’s some info on fruit trees and one in particular caught my eye. It was about an ‘Australian Sunrise Lime’ which is a cross between three citrus, a native finger lime, cumquat and a mandarine. The fruit in the photo was egg shaped and bright orange/yellow. I would so love one of those, but no one knows anything more about it.

The girls are taking dad and I out to tea later for paella :)

Can I come?

We went for fish and chips at Sandgate.

Oh well then, if that is the case……

This is that Dichondra bed in 2007 when it had tomatoes and beans in it:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Tomatoes4March07.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Tomatoes5March07.jpg

The Quince tree is underplanted with strawberries (there is a trailer load of old, broken cow poo in there)

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/QuinceTreeJune08.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/QuinceTree24Oct10.jpg

Oh, and I forgot to mention with the triangle bed….along that fence are a couple of baby gooseberry plants, and an espaliered snow apple, corella pear and asparagus.

Now you must be bored!!

buffy said:

So….bored yet?

no, and if you put an exclamation mark on either end of your photo links, they will embed.

buffy said:

Yes Dinetta, I live at Penshurst, 70km North of the Bool and 30km South of Hamilton. But don’t be misled. Last year was the beginning of the breaking of the drought. We bought this house 11 years ago and I have fought this garden hard. Then last year, with rain, it became soooooo much easier! I’d forgotten how easy gardening can be and things came up that I had forgotten about.

I asked at “Bridgey” (where Ragamuffin was living) “how did you cope with the drought?” and the lady of the house said “what drought”… :O!!

However on the bus from Geelong, a local lass told me that the countryside we were travelling through, had been hit hard and had only just come good…this was twelve months ago now…

bubba louie said:

We went for fish and chips at Sandgate.

How was it? Been a couple of years since I’ve done that…

Was she gardening? There were water restrictions pretty much everywhere. In Penshurst we only had the standard water saving measures (can use sprinklers after 8.00pm and before 10..am, because we are bore fed and our bore produces more than twice as much water as this town uses. But Hamilton went to Level 4 restrictions as did many places around here.

buffy said:

To give you a bit of an idea of the interplanting, this is a recent photo of the bed that the Dichondra grows in…

Broccoli, garlic, leeks, beetroot, Dichondra and feverfew in there. At the back is some Lad’s Love (Artemisia) which I intend to hedge up, when it gets big enough.

This bed is really too shaded, but I grow beans up strings to the frame. At the left is a Tamarillo which I have recently butchered to make it go up and umbrella. The lettuces and silver beet seem to be OK there in the shady bit. It stays moister than other bits too, so the leafies do OK.

This one has Dahlias at the back, along the fence, rhubarb, then some broccoli and Brussels Sprouts and parsley at the end. Yes, it does look like lush parsley…..and that lot is selfsown. This bed is the driest of the ones on that side (East) of the block.

Then over on the other side is a new triangular bed, where I put tomatoes last year because it is hot over there on the West side of the block. Presently not much in there. It the back, where the stakes are, are broad beans. There are some lettuces in there too at the moment. I’m going to put three tomatoes in the centre (the tomatoes were around the edge last year) and edge this one with capsicums and eggplants. And some basil will go in there somewhere too. I will dig a trench, bury chook poo (which is mixed with shredded paper that I use in the nests) and then plant on top. Oh and I intend to put a block of corn in there too, next to the broadbeans. Gosh, that sounds messy, doesn’t it!.

I have now turned this bed over to citrus (lemon, lime and orange trees) but a couple of years ago the tomatoes were in there. We are not sewered, so this is where the greywater soaks out of the gravel pit. The lemon tree loves it and the tomatoes did quite well there. Note the rather over enthusiastic pumpkin underplanting……

So….bored yet?

Testing…no, garden shots are never boring to another gardener…

I’ve spent quite a lot of time watering over the past few years.

I have spent so much time on dialup (and I still use it at times) that I tend to leave the links so the post can load for the dialuppers. I know there aren’t too many any more, but I still do it out of habit.

buffy said:

Was she gardening? There were water restrictions pretty much everywhere. In Penshurst we only had the standard water saving measures (can use sprinklers after 8.00pm and before 10..am, because we are bore fed and our bore produces more than twice as much water as this town uses. But Hamilton went to Level 4 restrictions as did many places around here.

Entirely rainwater…and yes she was gardening…just a vegetable patch and the rest was natives…

Ah, there you go. We use our rainwater for us, and the townwater for the garden!

There was sufficient excitement when the new tank overflowed for us to take a photo!!

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/TankoverflowMay07.jpg

That is the medium size tank. There is another, bigger one, and a smaller one up on a stand.

>>Entirely rainwater…and yes she was gardening…just a vegetable patch and the rest was natives…<<

It’s just so much easier to grow things when it rains!

buffy said:

Oh well then, if that is the case……

This is that Dichondra bed in 2007 when it had tomatoes and beans in it:

The Quince tree is underplanted with strawberries (there is a trailer load of old, broken cow poo in there)

Oh, and I forgot to mention with the triangle bed….along that fence are a couple of baby gooseberry plants, and an espaliered snow apple, corella pear and asparagus.

Now you must be bored!!

Getting the pics to come up, it makes me dizzy to back-arrow so often…

buffy said:

I have spent so much time on dialup (and I still use it at times) that I tend to leave the links so the post can load for the dialuppers. I know there aren’t too many any more, but I still do it out of habit.

Fairy nuff, but I was getting motion sickness :P

buffy said:

Ah, there you go. We use our rainwater for us, and the townwater for the garden!

There was sufficient excitement when the new tank overflowed for us to take a photo!!

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/TankoverflowMay07.jpg

That is the medium size tank. There is another, bigger one, and a smaller one up on a stand.

LOL my kiddywinkles used to stand under it, often with a cake of soap!

buffy said:

>>Entirely rainwater…and yes she was gardening…just a vegetable patch and the rest was natives…<<

It’s just so much easier to grow things when it rains!

Something in the rain, that’s for sure!

buffy said:

>>Entirely rainwater…and yes she was gardening…just a vegetable patch and the rest was natives…<<

It’s just so much easier to grow things when it rains!

Your gardens look a credit to you…thanks for putting the pictures up :)

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

We went for fish and chips at Sandgate.

How was it? Been a couple of years since I’ve done that…

It hasn’t changed much.

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

… and kudos to you… :)

I wish I’d had a daddy like you RB. I never had much of a relationship with my father.

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

I’m glad. I hope everyone who has a Dad to ring, does so today. My Dad has been long gone but there is never a replacement.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

It is never too late, mate. ;)

When my parents gave me their old car to get around in, I was so grateful that I nearly squeezed the breath out of Dad. He was chuffed. 5 days later he was in hospital in a coma, and 6 days after that, he passed away. For me he was the best Dad in the world and the older I get, the more I realize just how lucky I was.

Amen to that.

So…you want to know I’ve got another garden too? The Penshurst one is on a double houseblock, a bit more than half an acre, a bit less than 3/4. I also have a house on 4 blocks (an acre) at Casterton, further North, towards the SA border. I accidentally bought the blocks on either side of the house…..well, it floods, and they were cheap!

This is my little house (it is my visiting optometry practice)

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/April2620105.jpg

And this is from the verandah in October 1996, when we last flooded. That is the front fence, and the road is, um, a bit wet! Just as well the house is 1.3m off the ground really (it’s above the level of the Big Flood of 1946)

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/April2620105.jpg

This is the double block to the right of the house as you face the house. Behind my native hedge are some fruit trees and a veggie garden.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/April2620102.jpg

That is a Callistemon hedge….I loooove it!

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/October29008.jpg

A view of the hedge when it was only a teenager:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/April152007384.jpg

This is my veggie bed, looking back towards the house. As we don’t live there, veggies there have to look after themselves, so I grow tomatoes, pumpkins, that sort of stuff over there.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/31May08002.jpg

These are olive trees, interplanted (see, I do it all the time!) with French lavender. They are bigger than this now, I think this is about 5 years ago.

Dinetta said:

Sonny Joe scored “Most Improved Forward” at this year’s footy (JRL) club presentations…plus he scored a player’s jersey (#18) that actually fits from the adult RL club that his JRL feeds into … he’s so chuffed…he got “Most Improved Forward” last year too…his Dad says he used to get the “Most IMproved Player” award (if he got any) because he was always so out of condition at the beginning of the season… so all his bike riding, 6 miles over to training and 6 miles back again, have paid off…he looks a lot more trim now than he has for a couple of years…has just taken the dawgs for a walk…

Good one Sonny Joe.

Veg gardener said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there :D

And ditto from me. Don’t you love celebration days. I do.

Just another day, out working, jobs don’t get done if someone isn’t out there doing them.

It’s still “Fathers day” no matter where you are or what your doing veg.

That’s about all I’ve got on Photobucket of Casterton at the moment. I think. The orchard there has about 6 types of apples, a pear, a cherry, an apricot, a peach, a nectarine and a plum. I also have an orange, a lime, a tangelo and a mandarine tree. And asparagus bed.

I think I must be mad.

It’s only a small orchard…really..

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Orchard13Aug11.jpg

;)

buffy said:

That’s about all I’ve got on Photobucket of Casterton at the moment. I think. The orchard there has about 6 types of apples, a pear, a cherry, an apricot, a peach, a nectarine and a plum. I also have an orange, a lime, a tangelo and a mandarine tree. And asparagus bed.

I think I must be mad.

no more than the rest of us :)

pomolo said:

pain master said:

bubba louie said:

I wish I’d had a daddy like you RB. I never had much of a relationship with my father.

oh this makes me sad… my heart is broken :( I’m off to ring my Dad…

I’m glad. I hope everyone who has a Dad to ring, does so today. My Dad has been long gone but there is never a replacement.

Hubbys dad died when he was a one year old baby, and I never saw mine again after age four. My stepfather was a right mongrel so the only good dad I know is hubby. His mum never re married. Both our mothers have long ago passed away too.
Our kids generally celebrate both mothers day and fathers day on each of us, we both get pressies and fussed over and hugs ect :)

Goodnight people. Going to watch Kingdom from last week. We were in Hobart last week.

buffy said:

I have spent so much time on dialup (and I still use it at times) that I tend to leave the links so the post can load for the dialuppers. I know there aren’t too many any more, but I still do it out of habit.

I’m a dialupper and I can handle them.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

I have spent so much time on dialup (and I still use it at times) that I tend to leave the links so the post can load for the dialuppers. I know there aren’t too many any more, but I still do it out of habit.

I’m a dialupper and I can handle them.

I’m a cable-er , more more more! lol.
That calistemon hedge is something else :D

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

We went for fish and chips at Sandgate.

How was it? Been a couple of years since I’ve done that…

It hasn’t changed much.

That’s nice to hear…so sick of things changing in this day and age…

buffy said:

To give you a bit of an idea of the interplanting, this is a recent photo of the bed that the Dichondra grows in…

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Veggies2July11.jpg

Broccoli, garlic, leeks, beetroot, Dichondra and feverfew in there. At the back is some Lad’s Love (Artemisia) which I intend to hedge up, when it gets big enough.

This bed is really too shaded, but I grow beans up strings to the frame. At the left is a Tamarillo which I have recently butchered to make it go up and umbrella. The lettuces and silver beet seem to be OK there in the shady bit. It stays moister than other bits too, so the leafies do OK.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Veggies1July11.jpg

This one has Dahlias at the back, along the fence, rhubarb, then some broccoli and Brussels Sprouts and parsley at the end. Yes, it does look like lush parsley…..and that lot is selfsown. This bed is the driest of the ones on that side (East) of the block.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Veggies3July11.jpg

Then over on the other side is a new triangular bed, where I put tomatoes last year because it is hot over there on the West side of the block. Presently not much in there. It the back, where the stakes are, are broad beans. There are some lettuces in there too at the moment. I’m going to put three tomatoes in the centre (the tomatoes were around the edge last year) and edge this one with capsicums and eggplants. And some basil will go in there somewhere too. I will dig a trench, bury chook poo (which is mixed with shredded paper that I use in the nests) and then plant on top. Oh and I intend to put a block of corn in there too, next to the broadbeans. Gosh, that sounds messy, doesn’t it!.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/Veggies4July11.jpg

I have now turned this bed over to citrus (lemon, lime and orange trees) but a couple of years ago the tomatoes were in there. We are not sewered, so this is where the greywater soaks out of the gravel pit. The lemon tree loves it and the tomatoes did quite well there. Note the rather over enthusiastic pumpkin underplanting……

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Penshurst%20garden/TomatoesMarch07.jpg

So….bored yet?

I enjoyed the walk around your place.

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

Sonny Joe scored “Most Improved Forward” at this year’s footy (JRL) club presentations…plus he scored a player’s jersey (#18) that actually fits from the adult RL club that his JRL feeds into … he’s so chuffed…he got “Most Improved Forward” last year too…his Dad says he used to get the “Most IMproved Player” award (if he got any) because he was always so out of condition at the beginning of the season… so all his bike riding, 6 miles over to training and 6 miles back again, have paid off…he looks a lot more trim now than he has for a couple of years…has just taken the dawgs for a walk…

Good one Sonny Joe.

Thanks…he really threw himself into his footy this year…I agree with another mother in wishing they’d thrown themselves just as enthusiastically into study …

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Back from the orchard and having a cuppa. It rained, pelted down more like, and we’d stop work. Then it stopped and as soon as we got back down into the trees, it poured again. I got drenched three times over and went home looking like a drowned rat.
In the tea room at the mansion there’s some info on fruit trees and one in particular caught my eye. It was about an ‘Australian Sunrise Lime’ which is a cross between three citrus, a native finger lime, cumquat and a mandarine. The fruit in the photo was egg shaped and bright orange/yellow. I would so love one of those, but no one knows anything more about it.

The girls are taking dad and I out to tea later for paella :)

Can I come?

We went for fish and chips at Sandgate.

I had leftovers. Blah!!!

buffy said:

That’s about all I’ve got on Photobucket of Casterton at the moment. I think. The orchard there has about 6 types of apples, a pear, a cherry, an apricot, a peach, a nectarine and a plum. I also have an orange, a lime, a tangelo and a mandarine tree. And asparagus bed.

I think I must be mad.

You’ve forgotten your as-sparrow-grass beds?

buffy said:

It’s only a small orchard…really..

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n245/lizza_06/Orchard13Aug11.jpg

;)

Geez look at it, so greeeeen!

buffy said:

So…you want to know I’ve got another garden too? The Penshurst one is on a double houseblock, a bit more than half an acre, a bit less than 3/4. I also have a house on 4 blocks (an acre) at Casterton, further North, towards the SA border. I accidentally bought the blocks on either side of the house…..well, it floods, and they were cheap!

This is my little house (it is my visiting optometry practice)

And this is from the verandah in October 1996, when we last flooded. That is the front fence, and the road is, um, a bit wet! Just as well the house is 1.3m off the ground really (it’s above the level of the Big Flood of 1946)

This is the double block to the right of the house as you face the house. Behind my native hedge are some fruit trees and a veggie garden.

That is a Callistemon hedge….I loooove it!

A view of the hedge when it was only a teenager:

This is my veggie bed, looking back towards the house. As we don’t live there, veggies there have to look after themselves, so I grow tomatoes, pumpkins, that sort of stuff over there.

These are olive trees, interplanted (see, I do it all the time!) with French lavender. They are bigger than this now, I think this is about 5 years ago.

For my own benefit…

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

Dinetta said:

How was it? Been a couple of years since I’ve done that…

It hasn’t changed much.

That’s nice to hear…so sick of things changing in this day and age…

I’ll second that dinetta.

I made it. Felt like I was chasing my tail.

Seeing Buffys hedge reminds me that I went down to the off side of the dam today and picked a bunch of Callistemon pachyphyllus. (green bottlebrush) Those bushes have been there for almost as long as we’ve lived here and they get absolutely no attention but they flower away every year. Love to see green flowers for a change.

pomolo said:

I made it. Felt like I was chasing my tail.

Seeing Buffys hedge reminds me that I went down to the off side of the dam today and picked a bunch of Callistemon pachyphyllus. (green bottlebrush) Those bushes have been there for almost as long as we’ve lived here and they get absolutely no attention but they flower away every year. Love to see green flowers for a change.

For a satrt.. you had a handful of cuttings.. did you plant any?

Secondly. check out C. pinifolius.. you’ll find it in my photostream.

Good morning. Five degrees, light high cloud. I’m off to work very shortly.

(So no more garden tours from me today!)

Good morning from here as well…sorry to whinge but it’s very dry, we haven’t had decent rain since May…the cotton growers are happy, with the prolonged Wet, a lot of the dryland farmers got a crop in and it’s just about finished coming through to the ginnery now…and the irrigation farmers are putting their next crop in already…good time to take the dogs for a walk as Elle Wuffles can go swimming in the drains (notice I didn’t say “channels”, something else altogether in the irrigation scheme of things)…

The wind is still coming from the south east…great drying weather…it’s the north west winds at this time of the year that are dangerous…bushfire winds I call them…

Dinetta said:

Good morning from here as well…sorry to whinge but it’s very dry, we haven’t had decent rain since May…the cotton growers are happy, with the prolonged Wet, a lot of the dryland farmers got a crop in and it’s just about finished coming through to the ginnery now…and the irrigation farmers are putting their next crop in already…good time to take the dogs for a walk as Elle Wuffles can go swimming in the drains (notice I didn’t say “channels”, something else altogether in the irrigation scheme of things)…

The wind is still coming from the south east…great drying weather…it’s the north west winds at this time of the year that are dangerous…bushfire winds I call them…

There are some who don’t yet believe the drought is over and I’m one.

roughbarked said:

pomolo said:

I made it. Felt like I was chasing my tail.

Seeing Buffys hedge reminds me that I went down to the off side of the dam today and picked a bunch of Callistemon pachyphyllus. (green bottlebrush) Those bushes have been there for almost as long as we’ve lived here and they get absolutely no attention but they flower away every year. Love to see green flowers for a change.

For a satrt.. you had a handful of cuttings.. did you plant any?

Secondly. check out C. pinifolius.. you’ll find it in my photostream.

You have inspired me RB. I will take some cuttings. I’d like to grow some more of this callistemon.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Good morning from here as well…sorry to whinge but it’s very dry, we haven’t had decent rain since May…t

There are some who don’t yet believe the drought is over and I’m one.

I’m starting to wonder if dry weather is the normal state of affairs, and the soaking rains are a bonus?

Dinetta said:

Good morning from here as well…sorry to whinge but it’s very dry, we haven’t had decent rain since May…the cotton growers are happy, with the prolonged Wet, a lot of the dryland farmers got a crop in and it’s just about finished coming through to the ginnery now…and the irrigation farmers are putting their next crop in already…good time to take the dogs for a walk as Elle Wuffles can go swimming in the drains (notice I didn’t say “channels”, something else altogether in the irrigation scheme of things)…

The wind is still coming from the south east…great drying weather…it’s the north west winds at this time of the year that are dangerous…bushfire winds I call them…

That’s not a whinge. That’s just a wish. I wish you some rain too. We are having light rain here. Not much sun.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Good morning from here as well…sorry to whinge but it’s very dry, we haven’t had decent rain since May…t

There are some who don’t yet believe the drought is over and I’m one.

I’m starting to wonder if dry weather is the normal state of affairs, and the soaking rains are a bonus?

Gee I hope you are both wrong.

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

There are some who don’t yet believe the drought is over and I’m one.

I’m starting to wonder if dry weather is the normal state of affairs, and the soaking rains are a bonus?

Gee I hope you are both wrong.

Well, Australia has been drying out for the last 50,000 years. Otherwise it would be so wet that places like Brisbane would be washed out to sea.

Morning from me too. Cold but sunny here.
I’ll be starting up my seedling pots from today. Starting with sunflowers and other things that can be directly planted, cherry toms of all different colours and varieties into the pot stand.
I had to grab the baby silkie rooster and shove him into a box in the store room at 6 am, lol. One week untill he goes. He is going to be a beautiful rooster, white bodied with black head and neck and a black tail. I haven’t seen a two toned silkie before. All the other fem chicks are pure white. Although I was going to keep all four, two are sold. I can’t handle childrens pleading eyes, I caved in LOL

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

There are some who don’t yet believe the drought is over and I’m one.

I’m starting to wonder if dry weather is the normal state of affairs, and the soaking rains are a bonus?

Gee I hope you are both wrong.

Once we took a tour on a glass bottomed boat near Greak Keppel Island, and the chap advised that what we were sailing over was the continental shelf, it went out for something like 15 miles (correct me if I’m wrong), and was left over from the days when that was the natural shoreline and the sea was beyond it…

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

I’m starting to wonder if dry weather is the normal state of affairs, and the soaking rains are a bonus?

Gee I hope you are both wrong.

Once we took a tour on a glass bottomed boat near Greak Keppel Island, and the chap advised that what we were sailing over was the continental shelf, it went out for something like 15 miles (correct me if I’m wrong), and was left over from the days when that was the natural shoreline and the sea was beyond it…

Probably true. It was all Gondwana land once.

I am spending the day at the Centre as a fill in. One of the volunteers is having an op on a brain tumor. It’s his second op on the same tumor.
It makes you grateful for the life you have even though it has it’s small failings.

I’ll check in later on.

pomolo said:

I am spending the day at the Centre as a fill in. One of the volunteers is having an op on a brain tumor. It’s his second op on the same tumor.
It makes you grateful for the life you have even though it has it’s small failings.

I’ll check in later on.

Poor bloke, I hope it goes well for him this time…Yep, I agree with the grateful comment…

Dinetta said:

pomolo said:

I am spending the day at the Centre as a fill in. One of the volunteers is having an op on a brain tumor. It’s his second op on the same tumor.
It makes you grateful for the life you have even though it has it’s small failings.

I’ll check in later on.

Poor bloke, I hope it goes well for him this time…Yep, I agree with the grateful comment…

Ditto. hope the surgeons hands are skilled and get it all out.

Max’s sore foreleg is ok going by no limp this morning, and how he took off across the yard after a cat..
Coffee time, then seed sorting :)

Back from part one of a root canal and half my mouth is numb.

I wonder what awaits me when the anesthetic wears off???

bubba louie said:

Back from part one of a root canal and half my mouth is numb.

I wonder what awaits me when the anesthetic wears off???

pain killers

trichome said:

bubba louie said:

Back from part one of a root canal and half my mouth is numb.

I wonder what awaits me when the anesthetic wears off???

pain killers

BIG ones……….
you poor fing

Happy Potter said:

trichome said:

bubba louie said:

Back from part one of a root canal and half my mouth is numb.

I wonder what awaits me when the anesthetic wears off???

pain killers

BIG ones……….
you poor fing

Actually it’s better than it was before. Tender but not very painful.

bubba louie said:

Back from part one of a root canal and half my mouth is numb.

I wonder what awaits me when the anesthetic wears off???

Poor Bubba. Sorry! No big passion kisses tonight.

bubba louie said:

Happy Potter said:

trichome said:

pain killers

BIG ones……….
you poor fing

Actually it’s better than it was before. Tender but not very painful.

Definately no passionate kissing.

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

Back from part one of a root canal and half my mouth is numb.

I wonder what awaits me when the anesthetic wears off???

Poor Bubba. Sorry! No big passion kisses tonight.

So just a normal night then??? ;)

Just watched Australian Story…Black Caviar…wonderful to see how they care for her …. going to iView to check out her friends, the 28 year old pony and ‘fat billy goat’…

Dinetta said:

Just watched Australian Story…Black Caviar…wonderful to see how they care for her …. going to iView to check out her friends, the 28 year old pony and ‘fat billy goat’…

that wasn’t a bad story… and jeez, what a quick horse!

Insommnia strikes again, been awake for hourrrrs, argh!

Happy Potter said:

Insommnia strikes again, been awake for hourrrrs, argh!

Oooohh and I have an important meeting at 10. Double ARGH!
Line up the coffees..

Happy Potter said:

Insommnia strikes again, been awake for hourrrrs, argh!

I woke up at 4:30, thought “OK I’ll nap ‘til 5:30” as that’s generally when I get up to make the lunches, etc…woe! I didn’t wake up untill 6:20….so I am behind and Sonny Jim has gone off without his breakfast…he could cook it I suppose but it’s a “mother” thing I like to do…

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

Back from part one of a root canal and half my mouth is numb.

I wonder what awaits me when the anesthetic wears off???

Poor Bubba. Sorry! No big passion kisses tonight.

So just a normal night then??? ;)

I won’t tell everybody what your “normal” night is then. LOL.

Happy Potter said:

Happy Potter said:

Insommnia strikes again, been awake for hourrrrs, argh!

Oooohh and I have an important meeting at 10. Double ARGH!
Line up the coffees..

Maybe it’s the important meeting that kept you awake.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Insommnia strikes again, been awake for hourrrrs, argh!

I woke up at 4:30, thought “OK I’ll nap ‘til 5:30” as that’s generally when I get up to make the lunches, etc…woe! I didn’t wake up untill 6:20….so I am behind and Sonny Jim has gone off without his breakfast…he could cook it I suppose but it’s a “mother” thing I like to do…

I find myself back in the days of making kids lunches, only nowadays they drive cars and go to work. There’s two neat lunch boxes complete with names on with a positive note for the day on the bench. Just to top that off there’s a fluro note on the door saying ‘don’t forget your lunch’, lol

Still, I’m so tired this morning I can’t find a positive thing to say so todays lunchbox note was ‘ the workd sucks!!’

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Insommnia strikes again, been awake for hourrrrs, argh!

I woke up at 4:30, thought “OK I’ll nap ‘til 5:30” as that’s generally when I get up to make the lunches, etc…woe! I didn’t wake up untill 6:20….so I am behind and Sonny Jim has gone off without his breakfast…he could cook it I suppose but it’s a “mother” thing I like to do…

I woke early as well. Must have been the day for it. Stood on the verandah in the semi dark and the micro bats flicked around my head again. This has happened before. It’s a bit scary I can tell you.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Insommnia strikes again, been awake for hourrrrs, argh!

I woke up at 4:30, thought “OK I’ll nap ‘til 5:30” as that’s generally when I get up to make the lunches, etc…woe! I didn’t wake up untill 6:20….so I am behind and Sonny Jim has gone off without his breakfast…he could cook it I suppose but it’s a “mother” thing I like to do…

I find myself back in the days of making kids lunches, only nowadays they drive cars and go to work. There’s two neat lunch boxes complete with names on with a positive note for the day on the bench. Just to top that off there’s a fluro note on the door saying ‘don’t forget your lunch’, lol

Still, I’m so tired this morning I can’t find a positive thing to say so todays lunchbox note was ‘ the workd sucks!!’

Think positive Happy Potter.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

I woke up at 4:30, thought “OK I’ll nap ‘til 5:30” as that’s generally when I get up to make the lunches, etc…woe! I didn’t wake up untill 6:20….so I am behind and Sonny Jim has gone off without his breakfast…he could cook it I suppose but it’s a “mother” thing I like to do…

I find myself back in the days of making kids lunches, only nowadays they drive cars and go to work. There’s two neat lunch boxes complete with names on with a positive note for the day on the bench. Just to top that off there’s a fluro note on the door saying ‘don’t forget your lunch’, lol

Still, I’m so tired this morning I can’t find a positive thing to say so todays lunchbox note was ‘ the workd sucks!!’

Think positive Happy Potter.

I tried! LOL

Time to break the fast.

Happy Potter said:

Still, I’m so tired this morning I can’t find a positive thing to say so todays lunchbox note was ‘ the workd sucks!!’

Awww, there, there….it will work out alright, you’ll see…

comforting pat on good shoulder

Good morning. It is under 10 degrees and showery here. I’m at work, first appointment is 8.30am. I’ve read today’s record cards and it looks like a reasonable mob today. Mostly people I have been seeing for years. A couple of newies.

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Still, I’m so tired this morning I can’t find a positive thing to say so todays lunchbox note was ‘ the world sucks!!’

Awww, there, there….it will work out alright, you’ll see…

comforting pat on good shoulder

Aw thanks.
Just about to go out the door and it’s starting to rain! LOL

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Insommnia strikes again, been awake for hourrrrs, argh!

I woke up at 4:30, thought “OK I’ll nap ‘til 5:30” as that’s generally when I get up to make the lunches, etc…woe! I didn’t wake up untill 6:20….so I am behind and Sonny Jim has gone off without his breakfast…he could cook it I suppose but it’s a “mother” thing I like to do…

I find myself back in the days of making kids lunches, only nowadays they drive cars and go to work. There’s two neat lunch boxes complete with names on with a positive note for the day on the bench. Just to top that off there’s a fluro note on the door saying ‘don’t forget your lunch’, lol

Still, I’m so tired this morning I can’t find a positive thing to say so todays lunchbox note was ‘ the workd sucks!!’

they’ll probably get a laugh out of it :)

Things are looking up. The tooth is a lot better and the vet gave Timmy a good report.

bubba louie said:

Things are looking up. The tooth is a lot better and the vet gave Timmy a good report.

you went to the vet for your tooth? :)

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

I woke up at 4:30, thought “OK I’ll nap ‘til 5:30” as that’s generally when I get up to make the lunches, etc…woe! I didn’t wake up untill 6:20….so I am behind and Sonny Jim has gone off without his breakfast…he could cook it I suppose but it’s a “mother” thing I like to do…

I find myself back in the days of making kids lunches, only nowadays they drive cars and go to work. There’s two neat lunch boxes complete with names on with a positive note for the day on the bench. Just to top that off there’s a fluro note on the door saying ‘don’t forget your lunch’, lol

Still, I’m so tired this morning I can’t find a positive thing to say so todays lunchbox note was ‘ the workd sucks!!’

they’ll probably get a laugh out of it :)

Oh they did :)
But it also attracted attention. Obviously the kids share their ‘note’ and this one being ‘different’ to my normal scribbles had a couple people ring me to ask if I was ok! LOL

bubba louie said:

Things are looking up. The tooth is a lot better and the vet gave Timmy a good report.

Good :D

Happy Potter said:

Oh they did :)
But it also attracted attention. Obviously the kids share their ‘note’ and this one being ‘different’ to my normal scribbles had a couple people ring me to ask if I was ok! LOL

how sweet :)

Back from the orchard meeting, yawnnn. Nanna nap in a minute.
Gees when I thought there wouldn’t be much for me to do at the orchard and their events, with one arm out of action, I was very mistaken. And when the committee members said there’s quite a bit of other things I can do, they wern’t flamin kiddin!
I think I must have nodded off during the meeting because I heard my name being spoken and I asked “what? what have I done?” lol! I’m membership secretary and the emails will come directly to me.
Lot’s to do now but mostly easy stuff. Deliver phamplets, make scion signs, make fruit tree plant labels, get a cash box, name stamp and some other things we need. I’m also ‘plant sitting’ fifty pots of hawthorn cuttings. I can look after them. Also 5 pots with sapote seeds, chocolate pudding plant something like that, as it was noticed that my patio has quite a tropical micro climate.
We’re also going to get a certain ‘Mr Cundall’ to visit the orchard for the Blossom Festival :D

Must get an hour or two shuteye. zzzz

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh they did :)
But it also attracted attention. Obviously the kids share their ‘note’ and this one being ‘different’ to my normal scribbles had a couple people ring me to ask if I was ok! LOL

how sweet :)

It was :)
One was Le Le’s mum (daughters boyfriend Leigh) she said that wasn’t like me as the note is usually so cute.. I didn’t know she had been reading it lol.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh they did :)
But it also attracted attention. Obviously the kids share their ‘note’ and this one being ‘different’ to my normal scribbles had a couple people ring me to ask if I was ok! LOL

how sweet :)

It was :)
One was Le Le’s mum (daughters boyfriend Leigh) she said that wasn’t like me as the note is usually so cute.. I didn’t know she had been reading it lol.

well let’s face it, not many mums would be making lunches for their grown up kids these days, let alone put notes in with them!

it’s raining. it’s been threatening to for a couple of days, but it waited until I hung the washing out! lol!

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

how sweet :)

It was :)
One was Le Le’s mum (daughters boyfriend Leigh) she said that wasn’t like me as the note is usually so cute.. I didn’t know she had been reading it lol.

well let’s face it, not many mums would be making lunches for their grown up kids these days, let alone put notes in with them!

I can’t help meself. I see them going from fridge to pantry1 then back to fridge then to freezer then pantry 2 searching for something to take to work the next day.
So I just make simple sangers or rolls or crackers and add a boiled egg, couple mandarines and if there’s ginger slice or fruit cake about, a piece of that too. In propper serving sizes! Then because of different tastes I put their name on it. Have paper and pen, will write something else, like.. ‘today do something really nice for the co- worker you like the least’.

bluegreen said:

it’s raining. it’s been threatening to for a couple of days, but it waited until I hung the washing out! lol!

Yes, more arvo and late rain. Put it inside on a clothes horse ;)

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

It was :)
One was Le Le’s mum (daughters boyfriend Leigh) she said that wasn’t like me as the note is usually so cute.. I didn’t know she had been reading it lol.

well let’s face it, not many mums would be making lunches for their grown up kids these days, let alone put notes in with them!

I can’t help meself. I see them going from fridge to pantry1 then back to fridge then to freezer then pantry 2 searching for something to take to work the next day.
So I just make simple sangers or rolls or crackers and add a boiled egg, couple mandarines and if there’s ginger slice or fruit cake about, a piece of that too. In propper serving sizes! Then because of different tastes I put their name on it. Have paper and pen, will write something else, like.. ‘today do something really nice for the co- worker you like the least’.

I gave up when the fatigue hit me. poor Naomi would go to school without breakfast or lunch because she never gave herself enough time to make it. She survived though.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

how sweet :)

It was :)
One was Le Le’s mum (daughters boyfriend Leigh) she said that wasn’t like me as the note is usually so cute.. I didn’t know she had been reading it lol.

well let’s face it, not many mums would be making lunches for their grown up kids these days, let alone put notes in with them!

Lunch is made here and gets a note on it, ill generally forget to put something in the esky. saves me make it while mums making dads lunch as well.

Veg gardener said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

It was :)
One was Le Le’s mum (daughters boyfriend Leigh) she said that wasn’t like me as the note is usually so cute.. I didn’t know she had been reading it lol.

well let’s face it, not many mums would be making lunches for their grown up kids these days, let alone put notes in with them!

Lunch is made here and gets a note on it, ill generally forget to put something in the esky. saves me make it while mums making dads lunch as well.

there are some good mum’s out there :D

trichome said:

bubba louie said:

Things are looking up. The tooth is a lot better and the vet gave Timmy a good report.

you went to the vet for your tooth? :)

Do I call my tooth Timmy????? LOL

Happy Potter said:

Back from the orchard meeting, yawnnn. Nanna nap in a minute.
Gees when I thought there wouldn’t be much for me to do at the orchard and their events, with one arm out of action, I was very mistaken. And when the committee members said there’s quite a bit of other things I can do, they wern’t flamin kiddin!
I think I must have nodded off during the meeting because I heard my name being spoken and I asked “what? what have I done?” lol! I’m membership secretary and the emails will come directly to me.
Lot’s to do now but mostly easy stuff. Deliver phamplets, make scion signs, make fruit tree plant labels, get a cash box, name stamp and some other things we need. I’m also ‘plant sitting’ fifty pots of hawthorn cuttings. I can look after them. Also 5 pots with sapote seeds, chocolate pudding plant something like that, as it was noticed that my patio has quite a tropical micro climate.
We’re also going to get a certain ‘Mr Cundall’ to visit the orchard for the Blossom Festival :D

Must get an hour or two shuteye. zzzz

HP your posts make me tired just reading them. LOL

trichome said:

bubba louie said:

Things are looking up. The tooth is a lot better and the vet gave Timmy a good report.

you went to the vet for your tooth? :)

Or the cat got a tooth our at the vets.

Happy Potter said:

Back from the orchard meeting, yawnnn. Nanna nap in a minute.
Gees when I thought there wouldn’t be much for me to do at the orchard and their events, with one arm out of action, I was very mistaken. And when the committee members said there’s quite a bit of other things I can do, they wern’t flamin kiddin!
I think I must have nodded off during the meeting because I heard my name being spoken and I asked “what? what have I done?” lol! I’m membership secretary and the emails will come directly to me.
Lot’s to do now but mostly easy stuff. Deliver phamplets, make scion signs, make fruit tree plant labels, get a cash box, name stamp and some other things we need. I’m also ‘plant sitting’ fifty pots of hawthorn cuttings. I can look after them. Also 5 pots with sapote seeds, chocolate pudding plant something like that, as it was noticed that my patio has quite a tropical micro climate.
We’re also going to get a certain ‘Mr Cundall’ to visit the orchard for the Blossom Festival :D

Must get an hour or two shuteye. zzzz

They saw you coming is my guess.

bluegreen said:

it’s raining. it’s been threatening to for a couple of days, but it waited until I hung the washing out! lol!

That figures BG. Murphy’s law.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

It was :)
One was Le Le’s mum (daughters boyfriend Leigh) she said that wasn’t like me as the note is usually so cute.. I didn’t know she had been reading it lol.

well let’s face it, not many mums would be making lunches for their grown up kids these days, let alone put notes in with them!

I can’t help meself. I see them going from fridge to pantry1 then back to fridge then to freezer then pantry 2 searching for something to take to work the next day.
So I just make simple sangers or rolls or crackers and add a boiled egg, couple mandarines and if there’s ginger slice or fruit cake about, a piece of that too. In propper serving sizes! Then because of different tastes I put their name on it. Have paper and pen, will write something else, like.. ‘today do something really nice for the co- worker you like the least’.

I haven’t made a cut lunch your ‘ears and ‘ears. Did I ever tell you that I love my retirement?

bubba louie said:

trichome said:

bubba louie said:

Things are looking up. The tooth is a lot better and the vet gave Timmy a good report.

you went to the vet for your tooth? :)

Do I call my tooth Timmy????? LOL

Tsk! Tsk!

bubba louie said:

Happy Potter said:

Back from the orchard meeting, yawnnn. Nanna nap in a minute.
Gees when I thought there wouldn’t be much for me to do at the orchard and their events, with one arm out of action, I was very mistaken. And when the committee members said there’s quite a bit of other things I can do, they wern’t flamin kiddin!
I think I must have nodded off during the meeting because I heard my name being spoken and I asked “what? what have I done?” lol! I’m membership secretary and the emails will come directly to me.
Lot’s to do now but mostly easy stuff. Deliver phamplets, make scion signs, make fruit tree plant labels, get a cash box, name stamp and some other things we need. I’m also ‘plant sitting’ fifty pots of hawthorn cuttings. I can look after them. Also 5 pots with sapote seeds, chocolate pudding plant something like that, as it was noticed that my patio has quite a tropical micro climate.
We’re also going to get a certain ‘Mr Cundall’ to visit the orchard for the Blossom Festival :D

Must get an hour or two shuteye. zzzz

HP your posts make me tired just reading them. LOL

Me too.

pomolo said:

I haven’t made a cut lunch your ‘ears and ‘ears. Did I ever tell you that I love my retirement?

I dragged out the electric slicer…thought I’d dumped it but it’s still in a cupboard,,,so I sliced some cheese as well and that will make the sandwiches a breeze,,,

Good morning. We have frost. Not heavy frost, but frost none the less. I hope my young orange tree can cope.

buffy said:

Good morning. We have frost. Not heavy frost, but frost none the less. I hope my young orange tree can cope.

Morning to you too Buffy. Frosty here too (Werribee) How young is the tree?

Morning all. Shorts and T-shirt here…cloud cover without breeze is keeping the heat down here…

Dinetta said:

Morning all. Shorts and T-shirt here…cloud cover without breeze is keeping the heat down here…

Morn D too. It’s a back to winter blast for us before it starts to warm up.
No gas central heating here either .. it did get fixed and went for months but now it’s started playing up again. The man has to get up in to the ceiling and reset the thing then it fires up well, but it stops again after a couple hours.
The other frosty morning he got up there to reset it and it backfired..scared the crap out of him, and me! It’s a wait of a couple weeks for the service fellow. It’ll be warmer by then anyway.

Happy Potter said:

The other frosty morning he got up there to reset it and it backfired..scared the crap out of him, and me! It’s a wait of a couple weeks for the service fellow. It’ll be warmer by then anyway.

Very glad The Man has lived to tell the tale, and your house is still standing!

Heyas, I was given a 20 lt bucket of wood ash by one of the orchard fellows.. never any treated pine wood in it ect., but I’m wondering where and how to use it. If my garden soil consistently comes up with a PH of 7, would I need to add it ? I never add lime normally. There doesn’t seem the need.

I whack the woodash into the compost bin, or spread it like mulch (but thinner) across the veggie beds. But then I ‘ve never tested soil pH either, I just stick things in and if they grow they grow.

I’m off to Casterton consulting for the day.

My soil when I came here measured 11 on the Ph scale.

I have a wood stove and none of the ash leaves the yard.

buffy said:

I whack the woodash into the compost bin, or spread it like mulch (but thinner) across the veggie beds. But then I ‘ve never tested soil pH either, I just stick things in and if they grow they grow.

I’m off to Casterton consulting for the day.

Thanks, yes I forgot the the compost bin.. I will add some now and then.

My memories of Casterton, whole paddocks white with frost in winter and it looked beautiful.

roughbarked said:

My soil when I came here measured 11 on the Ph scale.

I have a wood stove and none of the ash leaves the yard.

So wood ash lowers the PH ?

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

My soil when I came here measured 11 on the Ph scale.

I have a wood stove and none of the ash leaves the yard.

So wood ash lowers the PH ?

NO but you need to keep putting a lot of it on the same spot to make it raise the Ph

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

My soil when I came here measured 11 on the Ph scale.

I have a wood stove and none of the ash leaves the yard.

So wood ash lowers the PH ?

NO but you need to keep putting a lot of it on the same spot to make it raise the Ph

Gotcha :)

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

So wood ash lowers the PH ?

NO but you need to keep putting a lot of it on the same spot to make it raise the Ph

Gotcha :)

Many gardeners dig in lime on a regular basis without knowing why.

I’ve never added lime. When I first got this block I asked my nurseryman boss what he thought I’d have to do to lower the Ph enough to grow things.. he said pfft, you could back up truckloads of nitric acid and still get no change.

Happy Potter said:

buffy said:

Good morning. We have frost. Not heavy frost, but frost none the less. I hope my young orange tree can cope.

Morning to you too Buffy. Frosty here too (Werribee) How young is the tree?

I knew it was the southerners fault that we get cold weather. They are predicting that our temps will plunge during the week and it’s all your fault. If you weren’t there it wouldn’t get cold here. It’s logical.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

buffy said:

Good morning. We have frost. Not heavy frost, but frost none the less. I hope my young orange tree can cope.

Morning to you too Buffy. Frosty here too (Werribee) How young is the tree?

I knew it was the southerners fault that we get cold weather. They are predicting that our temps will plunge during the week and it’s all your fault. If you weren’t there it wouldn’t get cold here. It’s logical.

Hahahaha! Sowwy…..

Dinetta said:

Morning all. Shorts and T-shirt here…cloud cover without breeze is keeping the heat down here…

I’ve got the washing on the line but I’m still in my jamies.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

Morning all. Shorts and T-shirt here…cloud cover without breeze is keeping the heat down here…

Morn D too. It’s a back to winter blast for us before it starts to warm up.
No gas central heating here either .. it did get fixed and went for months but now it’s started playing up again. The man has to get up in to the ceiling and reset the thing then it fires up well, but it stops again after a couple hours.
The other frosty morning he got up there to reset it and it backfired..scared the crap out of him, and me! It’s a wait of a couple weeks for the service fellow. It’ll be warmer by then anyway.

You stay out of the ceiling HP. No matter what!!!!!!!

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

Morning all. Shorts and T-shirt here…cloud cover without breeze is keeping the heat down here…

Morn D too. It’s a back to winter blast for us before it starts to warm up.
No gas central heating here either .. it did get fixed and went for months but now it’s started playing up again. The man has to get up in to the ceiling and reset the thing then it fires up well, but it stops again after a couple hours.
The other frosty morning he got up there to reset it and it backfired..scared the crap out of him, and me! It’s a wait of a couple weeks for the service fellow. It’ll be warmer by then anyway.

You stay out of the ceiling HP. No matter what!!!!!!!

No probs there ‘mum’ :) I don’t climb ladders.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

Morn D too. It’s a back to winter blast for us before it starts to warm up.
No gas central heating here either .. it did get fixed and went for months but now it’s started playing up again. The man has to get up in to the ceiling and reset the thing then it fires up well, but it stops again after a couple hours.
The other frosty morning he got up there to reset it and it backfired..scared the crap out of him, and me! It’s a wait of a couple weeks for the service fellow. It’ll be warmer by then anyway.

You stay out of the ceiling HP. No matter what!!!!!!!

No probs there ‘mum’ :) I don’t climb ladders.

Thank goodness for that.

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

You stay out of the ceiling HP. No matter what!!!!!!!

No probs there ‘mum’ :) I don’t climb ladders.

Thank goodness for that.

Hehe, that’s why I have all dwarf trees. I ain’t climbing nothing.

The garden is looking a bit springy. The Azaleas are in flower and although the colours are repetitive they look good. Most have been grown from cuttings. D is our cutting obsessive gardener.

The Wisteria battle is on. It’s a beautiful double, violet coloured flower but the leaves open at the same time as the flowers so a lot are hidden under foliage. We promised ourselves that we would chop it out if it didn’t do better this year but I can’t see me doing that. It’s growing as a standard and the birds love it whether you can see the flowers or not. Good for making nests in apparently.

I need to sing the praises of the strange brocolli we grew this season. I don’t know it name but it’s sweet and tender and giving off plenty of good eating flowers. Will let one or two go to seed and save for next year.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

Happy Potter said:

No probs there ‘mum’ :) I don’t climb ladders.

Thank goodness for that.

Hehe, that’s why I have all dwarf trees. I ain’t climbing nothing.

Except the ladder to success. You’ve scaled that one.

pomolo said:

The garden is looking a bit springy. The Azaleas are in flower and although the colours are repetitive they look good. Most have been grown from cuttings. D is our cutting obsessive gardener.

I need to sing the praises of the strange brocolli we grew this season. I don’t know it name but it’s sweet and tender and giving off plenty of good eating flowers. Will let one or two go to seed and save for next year.

My fruit trees are bursting their buds, and flowers coming on elsewhere :)

when saving your broccoli seed, at least 2 plants and no other brassicas going to seed. they are notoriously promiscuous. may need staking.

Housework to do and floor to sweep. I can sweep again! Yay!
Busy busy. I like being busy
Gotta stick a roast on to pre cook, lift the last of the leeks and sort some more seedling pots.

bluegreen said:

pomolo said:

The garden is looking a bit springy. The Azaleas are in flower and although the colours are repetitive they look good. Most have been grown from cuttings. D is our cutting obsessive gardener.

I need to sing the praises of the strange brocolli we grew this season. I don’t know it name but it’s sweet and tender and giving off plenty of good eating flowers. Will let one or two go to seed and save for next year.

My fruit trees are bursting their buds, and flowers coming on elsewhere :)

when saving your broccoli seed, at least 2 plants and no other brassicas going to seed. they are notoriously promiscuous. may need staking.

Thanks for the hint BG. We have no other brassicas around so they should stay home.

Happy Potter said:

Housework to do and floor to sweep. I can sweep again! Yay!

I wouldn’t be admitting it! lol!

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Housework to do and floor to sweep. I can sweep again! Yay!

I wouldn’t be admitting it! lol!

Neither would I. LOL. I don’t sweep until someone stubs their toe on something.

We’re in for some lunch. Finished pruning the …………….. I’ve forgotten the name. It’s poisonous anyway. Next are the Hibiscus and they are tall as.

BTW. I’ve changed into a sleeveless top. It’s 27c outside.

finished filling the tyre. going to transplant the Warrigal Greens into it from the big pot they have been in up to date. Then I can use the pot for herbs as it is more accessible. One pot has thyme in it and it is going great guns. Probably will put sage in this one.

pomolo said:

BTW. I’ve changed into a sleeveless top. It’s 27c outside.

Oh rub it in why don’t you LOL

What happens when you plant leeks too closely, they’re a bit slimmer but they self blanch and are taller.
With the tops these were just over a metre tall. (that roll of cling film is 45cm wide)

Happy Potter said:

What happens when you plant leeks too closely, they’re a bit slimmer but they self blanch and are taller.
With the tops these were just over a metre tall. (that roll of cling film is 45cm wide)

A small tip;
Leeks are meant to be transplanted at least a couple of times.. and planted in a deep trench.. to get what you buy in the shops.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

What happens when you plant leeks too closely, they’re a bit slimmer but they self blanch and are taller.
With the tops these were just over a metre tall. (that roll of cling film is 45cm wide)

A small tip;
Leeks are meant to be transplanted at least a couple of times.. and planted in a deep trench.. to get what you buy in the shops.

If you have time..
I prefer my way, lol.
Smaller ones that get pulled out with them get replanted, so I spose I’m doing that anyway.

Hello from sunny, but cool, Casterton (Western Victoria).

>>I need to sing the praises of the strange brocolli we grew this season. I don’t know it name but it’s sweet and tender and giving off plenty of good eating flowers. Will let one or two go to seed and save for next year<<

I may have mentioned it a few days ago, but I grew one from Diggers which I think was called Chinese broccoli that produced lots of tall, slender flower heads, kept producing more over two or three months. I’ve actually just picked a few heads here in the Casterton garden…..where excess veggie seedlings get stuffed in the ground and left to their own devices.

Oh, and whoever was talking about the sage…..you do know how big a culinary sage bush gets, don’t you? Mine (I seem to have several, as they layer themselves) are out in the garden beds and get ruthlessly pruned with the hedging shears.

I have to do more work now.

buffy said:

Hello from sunny, but cool, Casterton (Western Victoria).

>>I need to sing the praises of the strange brocolli we grew this season. I don’t know it name but it’s sweet and tender and giving off plenty of good eating flowers. Will let one or two go to seed and save for next year<<

I may have mentioned it a few days ago, but I grew one from Diggers which I think was called Chinese broccoli that produced lots of tall, slender flower heads, kept producing more over two or three months. I’ve actually just picked a few heads here in the Casterton garden…..where excess veggie seedlings get stuffed in the ground and left to their own devices.

Oh, and whoever was talking about the sage…..you do know how big a culinary sage bush gets, don’t you? Mine (I seem to have several, as they layer themselves) are out in the garden beds and get ruthlessly pruned with the hedging shears.

I have to do more work now.

speaking of broccoli and cuttings.. or I have done that before?

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Hello from sunny, but cool, Casterton (Western Victoria).

>>I need to sing the praises of the strange brocolli we grew this season. I don’t know it name but it’s sweet and tender and giving off plenty of good eating flowers. Will let one or two go to seed and save for next year<<

I may have mentioned it a few days ago, but I grew one from Diggers which I think was called Chinese broccoli that produced lots of tall, slender flower heads, kept producing more over two or three months. I’ve actually just picked a few heads here in the Casterton garden…..where excess veggie seedlings get stuffed in the ground and left to their own devices.

Oh, and whoever was talking about the sage…..you do know how big a culinary sage bush gets, don’t you? Mine (I seem to have several, as they layer themselves) are out in the garden beds and get ruthlessly pruned with the hedging shears.

I have to do more work now.

speaking of broccoli and cuttings.. or I have done that before?

broccoli seed. are they open pollinated variety?

broccoli cuttings, i have not done can you elaborate on that please, your method? Thanks :)

bluegreen said:

finished filling the tyre. going to transplant the Warrigal Greens into it from the big pot they have been in up to date. Then I can use the pot for herbs as it is more accessible. One pot has thyme in it and it is going great guns. Probably will put sage in this one.

done :D

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

BTW. I’ve changed into a sleeveless top. It’s 27c outside.

Oh rub it in why don’t you LOL

I’m down to T-shirt outside in the sun.

Happy Potter said:

What happens when you plant leeks too closely, they’re a bit slimmer but they self blanch and are taller.
With the tops these were just over a metre tall. (that roll of cling film is 45cm wide)

interesting. how far apart were they?

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Hello from sunny, but cool, Casterton (Western Victoria).

>>I need to sing the praises of the strange brocolli we grew this season. I don’t know it name but it’s sweet and tender and giving off plenty of good eating flowers. Will let one or two go to seed and save for next year<<

I may have mentioned it a few days ago, but I grew one from Diggers which I think was called Chinese broccoli that produced lots of tall, slender flower heads, kept producing more over two or three months. I’ve actually just picked a few heads here in the Casterton garden…..where excess veggie seedlings get stuffed in the ground and left to their own devices.

Oh, and whoever was talking about the sage…..you do know how big a culinary sage bush gets, don’t you? Mine (I seem to have several, as they layer themselves) are out in the garden beds and get ruthlessly pruned with the hedging shears.

I have to do more work now.

speaking of broccoli and cuttings.. or I have done that before?

broccoli seed. are they open pollinated variety?

broccoli cuttings, i have not done can you elaborate on that please, your method? Thanks :)

cuttings .. Just slice bits off and shove them in, in fact..
otherwise Use slightly more specifically chosen and trimmed pieces, in realistic science.

buffy said:

Oh, and whoever was talking about the sage…..you do know how big a culinary sage bush gets, don’t you? Mine (I seem to have several, as they layer themselves) are out in the garden beds and get ruthlessly pruned with the hedging shears.

I have to do more work now.

these are huge pots. they originally had mature trees in them and are about 60cm across and 45cm deep. can’t have too much fresh sage IMO :)

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

What happens when you plant leeks too closely, they’re a bit slimmer but they self blanch and are taller.
With the tops these were just over a metre tall. (that roll of cling film is 45cm wide)

interesting. how far apart were they?

Barely 4 cm between them.

bluegreen said:

bluegreen said:

finished filling the tyre. going to transplant the Warrigal Greens into it from the big pot they have been in up to date. Then I can use the pot for herbs as it is more accessible. One pot has thyme in it and it is going great guns. Probably will put sage in this one.

done :D

Well done :) I can’t wait to visit you one day!
I’ve done about a quarter of the things I said I’d do, but had lots of ph calls.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

speaking of broccoli and cuttings.. or I have done that before?

broccoli seed. are they open pollinated variety?

broccoli cuttings, i have not done can you elaborate on that please, your method? Thanks :)

cuttings .. Just slice bits off and shove them in, in fact..
otherwise Use slightly more specifically chosen and trimmed pieces, in realistic science.

ok thanks, i will try it out when i can, not sure when that will be :)

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

broccoli seed. are they open pollinated variety?

broccoli cuttings, i have not done can you elaborate on that please, your method? Thanks :)

cuttings .. Just slice bits off and shove them in, in fact..
otherwise Use slightly more specifically chosen and trimmed pieces, in realistic science.

ok thanks, i will try it out when i can, not sure when that will be :)

Whenever you are pruning your perennial broccoli, as I do.

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

pomolo said:

BTW. I’ve changed into a sleeveless top. It’s 27c outside.

Fan on here.

bluegreen said:

buffy said:

Oh, and whoever was talking about the sage…..you do know how big a culinary sage bush gets, don’t you? Mine (I seem to have several, as they layer themselves) are out in the garden beds and get ruthlessly pruned with the hedging shears.

I have to do more work now.

these are huge pots. they originally had mature trees in them and are about 60cm across and 45cm deep. can’t have too much fresh sage IMO :)

I had trouble keeping it alive. Too much humidity maybe??? I haven’t tried for years.

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

Awwwww poor Pepe.

bubba louie said:

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

Awwwww poor Pepe.

thanks buuba.
i’ve had the chill for a week – you’d think it would have ticked off elsewhere by now

pepe said:

bubba louie said:

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

Awwwww poor Pepe.

thanks buuba.
i’ve had the chill for a week – you’d think it would have ticked off elsewhere by now

I’d give you a hug but with my lungs I don’t need to catch anything.

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

commiserations (left)
commiserations (right)

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

buffy said:

Oh, and whoever was talking about the sage…..you do know how big a culinary sage bush gets, don’t you? Mine (I seem to have several, as they layer themselves) are out in the garden beds and get ruthlessly pruned with the hedging shears.

I have to do more work now.

these are huge pots. they originally had mature trees in them and are about 60cm across and 45cm deep. can’t have too much fresh sage IMO :)

I had trouble keeping it alive. Too much humidity maybe??? I haven’t tried for years.

they do like it well drained. I have had more success with pots than in the soil. like a Mediterranean type climate I think.

pepe said:

bubba louie said:

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

Awwwww poor Pepe.

thanks buuba.
i’ve had the chill for a week – you’d think it would have ticked off elsewhere by now

I have heard a few people say that their colds are hanging on longer than usual.

roughbarked said:

pepe said:

bubba louie said:

Awwwww poor Pepe.

thanks buuba.
i’ve had the chill for a week – you’d think it would have ticked off elsewhere by now

I’d give you a hug but with my lungs I don’t need to catch anything.

you don’t need this whinging coff even with good lungs.

still the fever, aches and headaches have shifted elsewhere.

the last two days i’ve done a bit of work in the garden.
on monday i was aching before i started.
yesterday i came in dizzy after forking about 6 sq.m. of ground.

(just checking – forking – yep that’s right LOL.)

bluegreen said:

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

commiserations (left)
commiserations (right)

thank you oh stereo symphony.

i may not have done much work but i have now read the first two books of martin’s ‘throne’ saga – (pokes out tongue thinking BG’s only read the first one even tho she started before me.)

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

these are huge pots. they originally had mature trees in them and are about 60cm across and 45cm deep. can’t have too much fresh sage IMO :)

I had trouble keeping it alive. Too much humidity maybe??? I haven’t tried for years.

they do like it well drained. I have had more success with pots than in the soil. like a Mediterranean type climate I think.

I tried pots. :(

bluegreen said:

pepe said:

bubba louie said:

Awwwww poor Pepe.

thanks buuba.
i’ve had the chill for a week – you’d think it would have ticked off elsewhere by now

I have heard a few people say that their colds are hanging on longer than usual.

Youngest son has been coughing and spluttering and leaving a trail of scrunched up toilet paper (poor man’s tissues LOL) for over a week now.

Oh and Coralee, your tubers are coming up..

The boxes are what I keep the frosts off with..

bluegreen said:

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

commiserations (left)
commiserations (right)

And, upside down an inside out. Get better :)

roughbarked said:

Oh and Coralee, your tubers are coming up..

Cool :)
Wherever I dropped a piece, they’re coming up too!

roughbarked said:

The boxes are what I keep the frosts off with..

you’re 4-6 weeks in front of me.
they look beaut – as does the soil.
what type?

pepe said:

roughbarked said:

The boxes are what I keep the frosts off with..

you’re 4-6 weeks in front of me.
they look beaut – as does the soil.
what type?

The soil is a calcerous clay(normally found under the red sand which blows away after mallee forests are cleared), top dressed for three decades with grape marc.. I think I have mentioned that somewhere else.. but if you want I’ll do it all again.

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

pepe said:

thanks buuba.
i’ve had the chill for a week – you’d think it would have ticked off elsewhere by now

I have heard a few people say that their colds are hanging on longer than usual.

Youngest son has been coughing and spluttering and leaving a trail of scrunched up toilet paper (poor man’s tissues LOL) for over a week now.

the cough would make a mother worry –
mine’s been bad for two days now – the fever and aches started this time last week.

roughbarked said:

pepe said:

roughbarked said:

The boxes are what I keep the frosts off with..

you’re 4-6 weeks in front of me.
they look beaut – as does the soil.
what type?

The soil is a calcerous clay(normally found under the red sand which blows away after mallee forests are cleared), top dressed for three decades with grape marc.. I think I have mentioned that somewhere else.. but if you want I’ll do it all again.

i bet you would – but i meant what type of toms.

pepe said:

roughbarked said:

pepe said:

you’re 4-6 weeks in front of me.
they look beaut – as does the soil.
what type?

The soil is a calcerous clay(normally found under the red sand which blows away after mallee forests are cleared), top dressed for three decades with grape marc.. I think I have mentioned that somewhere else.. but if you want I’ll do it all again.

i bet you would – but i meant what type of toms.

As usual with me, too many to remember. but we have yellow and black and other heirlooms like beefheart and mortgage lifter, rouge de marmande etc.. The other seedlings got frosted because I was away during one frost but I managed to call Mrs D. roughbarked from Cobram(while grafting cherries) to get her to at least cover these.

roughbarked said:

pepe said:

roughbarked said:

The soil is a calcerous clay(normally found under the red sand which blows away after mallee forests are cleared), top dressed for three decades with grape marc.. I think I have mentioned that somewhere else.. but if you want I’ll do it all again.

i bet you would – but i meant what type of toms.

As usual with me, too many to remember. but we have yellow and black and other heirlooms like beefheart and mortgage lifter, rouge de marmande etc.. The other seedlings got frosted because I was away during one frost but I managed to call Mrs D. roughbarked from Cobram(while grafting cherries) to get her to at least cover these.

There would be brandywines amongst them but I fear the mice may have got the rest of the seed.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

pepe said:

i bet you would – but i meant what type of toms.

As usual with me, too many to remember. but we have yellow and black and other heirlooms like beefheart and mortgage lifter, rouge de marmande etc.. The other seedlings got frosted because I was away during one frost but I managed to call Mrs D. roughbarked from Cobram(while grafting cherries) to get her to at least cover these.

There would be brandywines amongst them but I fear the mice may have got the rest of the seed.

EEK!

2°C 3°C 4°C 2°C 3°C 4°C 2°C Looks like I’ll need foam boxes over all of them for the next week at least

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

As usual with me, too many to remember. but we have yellow and black and other heirlooms like beefheart and mortgage lifter, rouge de marmande etc.. The other seedlings got frosted because I was away during one frost but I managed to call Mrs D. roughbarked from Cobram(while grafting cherries) to get her to at least cover these.

There would be brandywines amongst them but I fear the mice may have got the rest of the seed.

EEK!

2°C 3°C 4°C 2°C 3°C 4°C 2°C Looks like I’ll need foam boxes over all of them for the next week at least

i’ve prepared the soil and my seedlings are up in their pots – about 2 leaves on them
big beef, b’wine, roma and one other – same as last year.

my winter toms died in its plastic cage during a cold wet spell 5 weeks ago

pepe said:

bluegreen said:

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

commiserations (left)
commiserations (right)

thank you oh stereo symphony.

i may not have done much work but i have now read the first two books of martin’s ‘throne’ saga – (pokes out tongue thinking BG’s only read the first one even tho she started before me.)

sorry, I have read four now. One more to go :P

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

pepe said:

thanks buuba.
i’ve had the chill for a week – you’d think it would have ticked off elsewhere by now

I have heard a few people say that their colds are hanging on longer than usual.

Youngest son has been coughing and spluttering and leaving a trail of scrunched up toilet paper (poor man’s tissues LOL) for over a week now.

awww. get him some nice soft tissues with aloe vera. he must have a sore nose by now.

roughbarked said:

The boxes are what I keep the frosts off with..

looking good RB. Mine are still at the dicotyledon stage in trays, or yet to germinate.

bluegreen said:

pepe said:

bluegreen said:

commiserations (left)
commiserations (right)

thank you oh stereo symphony.

i may not have done much work but i have now read the first two books of martin’s ‘throne’ saga – (pokes out tongue thinking BG’s only read the first one even tho she started before me.)

sorry, I have read four now. One more to go :P

oh?! – ok – retracts tongue and considers a trip to the bookshop.

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

BTW. I’ve changed into a sleeveless top. It’s 27c outside.

Oh rub it in why don’t you LOL

Lovely sub-tropical weather. Ashame you don’t get it down there.

Happy Potter said:

What happens when you plant leeks too closely, they’re a bit slimmer but they self blanch and are taller.
With the tops these were just over a metre tall. (that roll of cling film is 45cm wide)

That’s about $10 worth in our stores.

bluegreen said:

bluegreen said:

finished filling the tyre. going to transplant the Warrigal Greens into it from the big pot they have been in up to date. Then I can use the pot for herbs as it is more accessible. One pot has thyme in it and it is going great guns. Probably will put sage in this one.

done :D

A good days work BG.

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

pomolo said:

BTW. I’ve changed into a sleeveless top. It’s 27c outside.

Oh rub it in why don’t you LOL

I’m down to T-shirt outside in the sun.

Ooooo! I hope you’ve got mopre than a t-shirt on BG.

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

roughbarked said:

speaking of broccoli and cuttings.. or I have done that before?

broccoli seed. are they open pollinated variety?

broccoli cuttings, i have not done can you elaborate on that please, your method? Thanks :)

cuttings .. Just slice bits off and shove them in, in fact..
otherwise Use slightly more specifically chosen and trimmed pieces, in realistic science.

I’m going to give this a try but I bet it’ll be too hot for them.

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

Awwwww! Poor Pepe.

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

BTW. I’ve changed into a sleeveless top. It’s 27c outside.

Fan on here.

Not the air con?

bubba louie said:

pepe said:

g’ay

september is iti?
time flies.
i still haven’t fully sorted out the new puter yet ….
and i’ve got a cold …..
sympathy in stereo would be good LOL.

Awwwww poor Pepe.

That’s what I said. Not in stereo though.

roughbarked said:

pepe said:

bubba louie said:

Awwwww poor Pepe.

thanks buuba.
i’ve had the chill for a week – you’d think it would have ticked off elsewhere by now

I’d give you a hug but with my lungs I don’t need to catch anything.

Lucky1 always says that you need to put a condom over your computer RB.

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

trichome said:

broccoli seed. are they open pollinated variety?

broccoli cuttings, i have not done can you elaborate on that please, your method? Thanks :)

cuttings .. Just slice bits off and shove them in, in fact..
otherwise Use slightly more specifically chosen and trimmed pieces, in realistic science.

I’m going to give this a try but I bet it’ll be too hot for them.

Yep but a knife keeps cutting off the flowers until the leaves grow roots

pomolo said:

roughbarked said:

pepe said:

thanks buuba.
i’ve had the chill for a week – you’d think it would have ticked off elsewhere by now

I’d give you a hug but with my lungs I don’t need to catch anything.

Lucky1 always says that you need to put a condom over your computer RB.

If you could evaluate what I bring back in to type with from my garden .. on my fingers.. you’d realise why my keyboard wears a condom

Happy Potter said:

roughbarked said:

Oh and Coralee, your tubers are coming up..

Cool :)
Wherever I dropped a piece, they’re coming up too!

I bought a crown (if we are talking yacon) and mine haven’t come up yet. Think I’ll have to investigate. Probably rotted away.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

As usual with me, too many to remember. but we have yellow and black and other heirlooms like beefheart and mortgage lifter, rouge de marmande etc.. The other seedlings got frosted because I was away during one frost but I managed to call Mrs D. roughbarked from Cobram(while grafting cherries) to get her to at least cover these.

There would be brandywines amongst them but I fear the mice may have got the rest of the seed.

EEK!

2°C 3°C 4°C 2°C 3°C 4°C 2°C Looks like I’ll need foam boxes over all of them for the next week at least

Ain’t that the truth. then we get it all up here.

pepper said:

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

There would be brandywines amongst them but I fear the mice may have got the rest of the seed.

EEK!

2°C 3°C 4°C 2°C 3°C 4°C 2°C Looks like I’ll need foam boxes over all of them for the next week at least

i’ve prepared the soil and my seedlings are up in their pots – about 2 leaves on them
big beef, b’wine, roma and one other – same as last year.

my winter toms died in its plastic cage during a cold wet spell 5 weeks ago

who’s pepper???

bluegreen said:

bubba louie said:

bluegreen said:

I have heard a few people say that their colds are hanging on longer than usual.

Youngest son has been coughing and spluttering and leaving a trail of scrunched up toilet paper (poor man’s tissues LOL) for over a week now.

awww. get him some nice soft tissues with aloe vera. he must have a sore nose by now.

Normally I do but he hasn’t complained yet.

pomolo said:

bubba louie said:

pomolo said:

BTW. I’ve changed into a sleeveless top. It’s 27c outside.

Fan on here.

Not the air con?

Not yet.

pomolo said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

Oh rub it in why don’t you LOL

I’m down to T-shirt outside in the sun.

Ooooo! I hope you’ve got mopre than a t-shirt on BG.

yes, I did. Did you have more than the sleeveless top on too?