Absent but not forgotten :)

bluegreen said:

Absent but not forgotten :)

happy birthday ladies

Happy birthday girls :)

bluegreen said:

Absent but not forgotten :)

:)

HB from me too.

Hi People,
Thanks for the Birthday wishes….I can’t believe you still remember :) and cause I’m not very regular on here these days.

Hope everyones well and happy

Muschee said:

Hi People,
Thanks for the Birthday wishes….I can’t believe you still remember :) and cause I’m not very regular on here these days.

Hope everyones well and happy

thanks for popping in muschee.
we (well BG’s birthday list) remember our mates in the west.

Oops! Sorry that it has been so long since I have been around, guys….I really lost my gardening inspiration after I broke my arm/shoulder and have found it really difficult to get interest. And now, thanks to all the fires and the heat stress for plants around here I’m even less inspired. However hopefully a bit further down the track I will get back on to it. Whenever #1 son comes home he does a bit of work on the fruit trees, by placing Water tubes around them. He is gradually get them done. I think he has done about 15 so far. :)

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I hope you are all well. I will try to have a quick read of the LHC, but it’s been too long for me to catch up on everything.

Thought I had better check in to let you know that I am still here and ok, although those of you on Facebook would already know that :)

Love to all
Anne

AnneS said:

Oops! Sorry that it has been so long since I have been around, guys….I really lost my gardening inspiration after I broke my arm/shoulder and have found it really difficult to get interest. And now, thanks to all the fires and the heat stress for plants around here I’m even less inspired. However hopefully a bit further down the track I will get back on to it. Whenever #1 son comes home he does a bit of work on the fruit trees, by placing Water tubes around them. He is gradually get them done. I think he has done about 15 so far. :)

Thanks for the birthday wishes. I hope you are all well. I will try to have a quick read of the LHC, but it’s been too long for me to catch up on everything.

Thought I had better check in to let you know that I am still here and ok, although those of you on Facebook would already know that :)

Love to all
Anne

Just stay cool in all the heat AnnS.

Those water tubes sound a good ideer…

I will pomolo thanks.

Dinetta said:

Those water tubes sound a good ideer…

They seem to working well Dinetta. Once filled the water seems to percolate slowly to the root zone over a period of weeks. Time will tell how well they work.

Ooh! The skycrane just went over the house again and made it shake a bit :)

AnneS said:

Dinetta said:

Those water tubes sound a good ideer…

They seem to working well Dinetta. Once filled the water seems to percolate slowly to the root zone over a period of weeks. Time will tell how well they work.

Ooh! The skycrane just went over the house again and made it shake a bit :)

Why not just bury old plastic water bottles?

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

Dinetta said:

Those water tubes sound a good ideer…

They seem to working well Dinetta. Once filled the water seems to percolate slowly to the root zone over a period of weeks. Time will tell how well they work.

Ooh! The skycrane just went over the house again and made it shake a bit :)

Why not just bury old plastic water bottles?

These incorporate the plastic wrap-around (wrap around the stakes) to prevent nibbles by kangaroos and the like, protecting in summer and winter, and they last for months…so the link provided by AnneS says…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

AnneS said:

They seem to working well Dinetta. Once filled the water seems to percolate slowly to the root zone over a period of weeks. Time will tell how well they work.

Ooh! The skycrane just went over the house again and made it shake a bit :)

Why not just bury old plastic water bottles?

These incorporate the plastic wrap-around (wrap around the stakes) to prevent nibbles by kangaroos and the like, protecting in summer and winter, and they last for months…so the link provided by AnneS says…

Milk cartons do that too. Why put more plastic out there?

roughbarked said:

Why not just bury old plastic water bottles?

I do that as well roughbarked :) The idea with the water tubes is that they protect the trees like a normal tree guard and provide water at the same time.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Why not just bury old plastic water bottles?

These incorporate the plastic wrap-around (wrap around the stakes) to prevent nibbles by kangaroos and the like, protecting in summer and winter, and they last for months…so the link provided by AnneS says…

Fair point but these can be reused and probably last longer than milk cartons.

Milk cartons do that too. Why put more plastic out there?

AnneS said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

These incorporate the plastic wrap-around (wrap around the stakes) to prevent nibbles by kangaroos and the like, protecting in summer and winter, and they last for months…so the link provided by AnneS says…

Fair point but these can be reused and probably last longer than milk cartons.

Milk cartons do that too. Why put more plastic out there?

I’d do some controlled experiments. I still have boxes full of the same style plastic tree guards that I stopped using because they microwaved the seedlings and either blew flat against the seedling or blew away. Milk cartons last minimum two years even after the seedling was grown in them and planted from them without the need for stakes.

roughbarked said:

Milk cartons do that too. Why put more plastic out there?

I believe the plastic is reusable?

Are you talking the cardboard milk carton, or the plastic milk bottle? Hard to see how the cardboard milk carton could last 2 years?

roughbarked said:

I’ll see how they go. #1 son did a fair amount of research before he bought them because he is pretty conscious of the things you mentioned.

Dinetta said:

Are you talking the cardboard milk carton, or the plastic milk bottle? Hard to see how the cardboard milk carton could last 2 years?

I’ve proven it thousands of times.

AnneS said:

roughbarked said:

I’ll see how they go. #1 son did a fair amount of research before he bought them because he is pretty conscious of the things you mentioned.

Yes I’ll be interested in your reports over 3 years