Hellooo September. I have waited..

And a very Happy Fathers Day to our terrific dads out there :)

A top of 26 C forecast, just perfect! I have a busy day ahead. Bountiful Backyards group to attend. Todays garden to visit is in Newport, and quite a challenge the owner says.

I’m taking The Very Handy little trailer with me to pick up a couple freebies on the way there. Bales of hay (I don’t know how many, was told ‘some’, hence the trailer) and a 6 kg bag of vermiculite from a gardeners place. I don’t ask people why aren’t they going to use such items, I just say thankyou, lol. I will use the vermiculite for making hupertufa fly agaric mushrooms for seating in a shady spot.
That’s another arty project ;) They will probably end up as comfy vantage spots for chooks and I’ll have to hose them..but that will still be cute.

♫Can I Trust You | The September When | The Best Of The September When♪♩

Morning green ones.
What are yous up to?

I’ve some idle watering to do, seedlings and other things, decide where on earth I’m going to grow eggplants, tend worm farms, and somehow, start cleaning the patio of junk for a visit by a gardening group early next month. It’s going to take that long.

If you were so smart grandpa.. you’d have made the pedals reach my feet.

She could budge up towards the front…won’t be long and it’ll be “Grandad my knees are hitting the handlebars already!”

Hopefully she wears herself out for a good night’s sleep?

roughbarked said:

If you were so smart grandpa.. you’d have made the pedals reach my feet.

:D :D

Hello Gardeners. I’m back. We decided I did not need the laptop and wireless dongle for the past 4 days in Robe (SA). So instead I have walked on the beach, eaten, read The Long Earth and The Long War. Finished knitting the shawl I have had on the go for about 3 years. Did a bit of crochet. Had naps.

Oh, and I read the Friday and weekend newspapers. Could only get The Australian. Now I know why I like the ABC news.

roughbarked said:

If you were so smart grandpa.. you’d have made the pedals reach my feet.

How gorgeous! :)

Morning spring chickens ;)

I’ve started on the great garden clean up. I began in the area past the fernery near the front fence where my spare pots and wire roll storage area is. I got that tidied and swept then started on the fernery. Ended up with a pile to my waist height of fronds and prunings. I couldn’t sweep that out, so just shuffled my feet along and ‘walked’ it out into the cacti shelf area. The chooks soon flattened and sorted it of bugs. That just left me the dirt and dust to sweep out of the fernery. I seasol-ed all the ferns and maidenhair pots as well which took me ages with a one litre watering can. I can’t lift the 9 lt one. I trimmed the salaginella ground cover overhanging the edging border, swept it out then shut the door.

I’ll work my way around past the paths and vege beds and rear mini orchard, picking up and putting away any pots and clearing areas, to the patio paths and then patio itself. The patio and carport are the messiest and I will need a lot of help clearing them, but as I move forward in one direction, I know nothing will be going back the way I came. I’ll end up back at the same fence where I started but on the opposite side of it. Then the whole garden carport and patio and backyard will be clean and tidy.

That’s the plan at least :)

Happy Potter said:

Then the whole garden carport and patio and backyard will be clean and tidy.

That’s the plan at least :)

Gosh.. You’d be welcome in my yard.. ;)

Here’s some of my progeny and propagatory.. stuff.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Then the whole garden carport and patio and backyard will be clean and tidy.

That’s the plan at least :)

Gosh.. You’d be welcome in my yard.. ;)

Here’s some of my progeny and propagatory.. stuff.

You could possibly actually meet them both if you happened to be wandering in the same part of the national botanic gardens at the same time..

though this is actually in my yard and the wattle is as yet unknown.., perhaps as yet undescribed or propagated other than by myself. ;)

Happy Potter said:

That’s the plan at least :)

:)

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Then the whole garden carport and patio and backyard will be clean and tidy.

That’s the plan at least :)

Gosh.. You’d be welcome in my yard.. ;)

Here’s some of my progeny and propagatory.. stuff.

lovely :)

Hello Gardeners. The man is here putting in a floating floor in the kitchen today. I’ve done a spot of weeding. But we had to empty, move and reset the fridge in the laundry first, and move out the tables, and chairs and miscellaneous cabinetry. It will all have to go back tomorrow! Although at the rate he is working, he’ll have it mostly done today.

:)

(I’ve taken ‘before’ photos. I’ll try to remember ‘during’ photos when he goes to lunch)

buffy said:

Hello Gardeners. The man is here putting in a floating floor in the kitchen today. I’ve done a spot of weeding. But we had to empty, move and reset the fridge in the laundry first, and move out the tables, and chairs and miscellaneous cabinetry. It will all have to go back tomorrow! Although at the rate he is working, he’ll have it mostly done today.

:)

(I’ve taken ‘before’ photos. I’ll try to remember ‘during’ photos when he goes to lunch)

Can remember when a mob of kids were under an older young person, refurbishing my kitchen. Just before lunch they were deciding upon how to remove a small pantry type corner cupboard.. and decided to have lunch first. Three minutes later, I sat down in the carport with them and suggested that after lunch, they move on from removing the corner pantry, because I’d already done it.

buffy said:

Hello Gardeners. The man is here putting in a floating floor in the kitchen today. I’ve done a spot of weeding. But we had to empty, move and reset the fridge in the laundry first, and move out the tables, and chairs and miscellaneous cabinetry. It will all have to go back tomorrow! Although at the rate he is working, he’ll have it mostly done today.

:)

(I’ve taken ‘before’ photos. I’ll try to remember ‘during’ photos when he goes to lunch)

has he checked the floor level? few floors are perfectly level and some have to have areas filled before laying a floating floor. Otherwise you will get movement and wear and tear when you walk on them.

The floor is sanded and varnished Baltic pine…we’ve just started to wear the surface badly after 12 years, so fitting floating floor now. He’s checked it. And he is putting a sort of underlay stuff down too.

:)

And he’s gone to lunch. I’ll take another photo.

roughbarked said:

Happy Potter said:

Then the whole garden carport and patio and backyard will be clean and tidy.

That’s the plan at least :)

Gosh.. You’d be welcome in my yard.. ;)

Here’s some of my progeny and propagatory.. stuff.

Beautiful family you have there :)

Here is the ‘before’:

And here is the lunchbreak “during’:

Happy Potter said:

That’s the plan at least :)

Sounds a good one to me..

Morning all.
I’m still on my clean up working from one side and I’m past the cactus shelf area, finally lol. Now onto the lawn and I noticed the plugs of buffalo I planted before winter have been growing well but winter grass took over and I couldn’t see them. The winter grass will die off. I cleared other weeds and nettle and watered the area.

I had a break with a trip to the nursery for a squizz. I was after a particular daisy that has white flowers with a dark blue or purple center. I got a marionberry and two blueberries instead :) Now to pot them up until I decide where is best to plant them out.

So, I’ve done some gardening. I was planning on going to Casterton to mow grass, but it was raining when I woke up. So I went for coffee and chocolate brownie and then it stopped raining. Can’t be bothered driving over now, so I’ve done some bookwork and planted the first lot of carrot seed for the season. It’s sitting under its board until it germinates, and then it can go for its life. Also planted out some lettuce, beetroot and mini turnip seedlings.

I think I might go for another coffee later. The cafe needs some lemons and limes anyway, so there is my excuse to go around the corner again.

:)

buffy said:

I think I might go for another coffee later. The cafe needs some lemons and limes anyway, so there is my excuse to go around the corner again.

:)

:)

I think it is time for a lemon delivery to the cafe.

A new series of Scott & Bailey, tonight! ABC1 @ 21:00 hrs

Phryne Fisher earlier in the night….

Auntie loves me!!

Yes, I’m pleased about more Phryne.

buffy said:

Yes, I’m pleased about more Phryne.

I also read the Corrine (baker ) books…

Good morning Gardeners. Eight degrees and not raining. Off we go to vote and then to cut yet more grass in Casterton.

I’ve voted, I’ve mowed and I’ve chipped a stack of buddleia prunings. And come back home again. Going for a coffee soon. Then a read and nap, I think.

Read and nap didn’t happen. Now thinking about where I can put some corn in this year. I think I won’t do rows, but a ‘bunch’ of 5 plants with stakes around the outside so I can tie some twine around them against the wind.

Good morning Gardeners. I’ve been for a bike ride, walked the dogs, eaten some scrambled eggs and bacon. Now I might do a bit more gardening planning, later go for a coffee and when the grass dries off a bit, cut it. Again.

buffy said:

Good morning Gardeners. I’ve been for a bike ride, walked the dogs, eaten some scrambled eggs and bacon. Now I might do a bit more gardening planning, later go for a coffee and when the grass dries off a bit, cut it. Again.

Sounds like a happy day in the making…

Re-arranging the lounge room…need some recycled curtains…

Dinetta said:

Re-arranging the lounge room…need some recycled curtains…

Hessian.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Re-arranging the lounge room…need some recycled curtains…

Hessian.

Bit dreary, but that’s a great idea for The Smallest Room in the House…thanks!

We’ve sprung a leak on the nature strip and city water people were just here with truck and bobcat to fix it. We quickly pulled up the furthest lillypilly and popped it in a bucket. We noticed the ground was was very damp when we planted the lillypillys, so it wasn’t from us digging the hole. Kept an eye on it and yesty the man went over to check and sunk to his ankle, it’d turned into a swamp.

They’ve left 3 stakes with ribbon around them on the area, but they were only here for 10 minutes so I’m not sure if they put the barrier there to keep off the soft part or if it’s a bigger job and they are coming back. Just as well it was on their side and not our property. I haven’t been out to check, but I just hope they didn’t throw grass seed down..

Hello Gardeners. I have been to Warrnambool and managed to walk around for about 4 hours while my car was serviced. Well, I also sat and ate some lunch and read. I’m such a shopper! I bought a cotton jumper for Mr buffy, a t-shirt and a windcheater for me at Target….that disposed of $18. See what happens when I’ve got time to riffle through the racks of throwouts! I ordered a wire basket for my pushbike. I don’t like the permanently affixed one I’ve got, so I went to the bike shop and the man got out the catalogues and I can get one like I had for the bike when I first got it in 1972. And the disposals shop had wooden clothes airers…..so I have acquired one of those too. The one we have is well over 30 years old, still fine, but it won’t hurt to have two.

>>I just hope they didn’t throw grass seed down..<<

Nothing a bit of glyphosate surreptitiously applied can’t deal with….

buffy said:

Hello Gardeners. I have been to Warrnambool and managed to walk around for about 4 hours while my car was serviced. Well, I also sat and ate some lunch and read. I’m such a shopper! I bought a cotton jumper for Mr buffy, a t-shirt and a windcheater for me at Target….that disposed of $18. See what happens when I’ve got time to riffle through the racks of throwouts! I ordered a wire basket for my pushbike. I don’t like the permanently affixed one I’ve got, so I went to the bike shop and the man got out the catalogues and I can get one like I had for the bike when I first got it in 1972. And the disposals shop had wooden clothes airers…..so I have acquired one of those too. The one we have is well over 30 years old, still fine, but it won’t hurt to have two.

Sounds like 4 hours well spent…

Hi been away on the bike for a couple of days but I am back (and tired.) Will tell you more soon.

Arvo all. We’re back to winter for a spell. Shopping’s a good activity for cold days. Especially when you walk into the plant nursery and spot a plant you have been looking for for years! An ‘our gem’ rhododendron, three of them in fact, are now in my possession :D I tried propagating, really did, but none grew. Two will go out the front and the third will go in front of the silkies pen where I can see it when I look out the kitchen window. It’s a stunner when in flower.

Along with them I got a few punnets of potted colour things for flower pots in front of the shed.

The lillypilly was replanted where the nature strip was dug over by the water people fixing a leaking mains pipe. I rang them to see if the job was completed and was told it was, but that they were coming back to ‘clean the area’. I told them if that means coming back to throw down some grass seed then please don’t bother as I want to kill the grass there, not grow it. They were happy with that. And I got three stall stakes to keep, lol.

And I got a much needed haircut. That feels much better. And the man called into our fave coffee bean shop and picked up three more hessian bags that they give away :D

I just got back from seeing my neurosurgeon and my L3 vertebra, one above the prev surgical site, is crumbling I will need to have the same surgery as I had previously but not for about 6-8 months. What I can do now, which is light duties and no digging or lifting, is all I can do. Definitely no physiotherapist stuff..that would not help. That’s it I’m gunna sook. All I can do in the meantime is manage the pain and see the doc again if it gets too much.

Sook sook sook. There I’m done sooking. Now there’s work to be done.

Happy Potter said:

I just got back from seeing my neurosurgeon and my L3 vertebra, one above the prev surgical site, is crumbling I will need to have the same surgery as I had previously but not for about 6-8 months. What I can do now, which is light duties and no digging or lifting, is all I can do. Definitely no physiotherapist stuff..that would not help. That’s it I’m gunna sook. All I can do in the meantime is manage the pain and see the doc again if it gets too much.

Sook sook sook. There I’m done sooking. Now there’s work to be done.

so was this one already on its way out and should have been included in the previous surgery? or is it crumbling because all the pressure is not on it because of the surgery, or what?

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

I just got back from seeing my neurosurgeon and my L3 vertebra, one above the prev surgical site, is crumbling I will need to have the same surgery as I had previously but not for about 6-8 months. What I can do now, which is light duties and no digging or lifting, is all I can do. Definitely no physiotherapist stuff..that would not help. That’s it I’m gunna sook. All I can do in the meantime is manage the pain and see the doc again if it gets too much.

Sook sook sook. There I’m done sooking. Now there’s work to be done.

so was this one already on its way out and should have been included in the previous surgery? or is it crumbling because all the pressure is not on it because of the surgery, or what?

listens with interest

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

I just got back from seeing my neurosurgeon and my L3 vertebra, one above the prev surgical site, is crumbling I will need to have the same surgery as I had previously but not for about 6-8 months. What I can do now, which is light duties and no digging or lifting, is all I can do. Definitely no physiotherapist stuff..that would not help. That’s it I’m gunna sook. All I can do in the meantime is manage the pain and see the doc again if it gets too much.

Sook sook sook. There I’m done sooking. Now there’s work to be done.

so was this one already on its way out and should have been included in the previous surgery? or is it crumbling because all the pressure is not on it because of the surgery, or what?

pressure is not on it

bluegreen said:

pressure is not on it

Would you believe I missed that?

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

I just got back from seeing my neurosurgeon and my L3 vertebra, one above the prev surgical site, is crumbling I will need to have the same surgery as I had previously but not for about 6-8 months. What I can do now, which is light duties and no digging or lifting, is all I can do. Definitely no physiotherapist stuff..that would not help. That’s it I’m gunna sook. All I can do in the meantime is manage the pain and see the doc again if it gets too much.

Sook sook sook. There I’m done sooking. Now there’s work to be done.

so was this one already on its way out and should have been included in the previous surgery? or is it crumbling because all the pressure is not on it because of the surgery, or what?

No it just started because the rheumatoid arthritis is still there, still being treated. Interestingly when I was waiting I overheard a lady easily in her 70s telling her friend she’s had three laminectomy and fusions ops. She was quick on her feet. I feel like a wuss lol.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

I just got back from seeing my neurosurgeon and my L3 vertebra, one above the prev surgical site, is crumbling I will need to have the same surgery as I had previously but not for about 6-8 months. What I can do now, which is light duties and no digging or lifting, is all I can do. Definitely no physiotherapist stuff..that would not help. That’s it I’m gunna sook. All I can do in the meantime is manage the pain and see the doc again if it gets too much.

Sook sook sook. There I’m done sooking. Now there’s work to be done.

so was this one already on its way out and should have been included in the previous surgery? or is it crumbling because all the pressure is not on it because of the surgery, or what?

No it just started because the rheumatoid arthritis is still there, still being treated. Interestingly when I was waiting I overheard a lady easily in her 70s telling her friend she’s had three laminectomy and fusions ops. She was quick on her feet. I feel like a wuss lol.

OK

That lady in her 70’s might not have had 5 kids…

A small squall with hard rain sent chooks chicks and me scurrying for cover. It’s so cold. It’ll be an inside day today, possibly baking some Anzac bikkies. I’ll make the chooks a warm curried mash for later.

Max has had another couple seizure type episodes, only he doesn’t panic like the first few times. Now he just stands there and presses his body against my leg. He is a trip hazard for me so I always look where he is before I take a step anyway. If he’s not near me when an episode happens he stands still and lowers his head and wags his tail madly against a wall or cupboard or appliance and I hear that whacking, it’s loud, and I go to him and hold his head still. If he is asleep on his bed and it happens he will scratch me on the leg, something I don’t like him doing. He alerts me so I can go to him to help him. He is an amazing dog.

The Trendy Trailer is out on loan to a friend. I’ve been asked if it’s going to be sprayed pink. No way! ..maybe purple lol.

I laughed so hard at this it hurt! Hubby and JJ were in stitches.

http://k2radio.com/hilarious-voicemail-from-a-witness-to-traffic-accident-audio/

Happy Potter said:

Max has had another couple seizure type episodes, only he doesn’t panic like the first few times. Now he just stands there and presses his body against my leg. He is a trip hazard for me so I always look where he is before I take a step anyway. If he’s not near me when an episode happens he stands still and lowers his head and wags his tail madly against a wall or cupboard or appliance and I hear that whacking, it’s loud, and I go to him and hold his head still. If he is asleep on his bed and it happens he will scratch me on the leg, something I don’t like him doing. He alerts me so I can go to him to help him. He is an amazing dog.

Got an amazing owner…good that he’s not panicking any more…

Happy Potter said:

The Trendy Trailer is out on loan to a friend. I’ve been asked if it’s going to be sprayed pink. No way! ..maybe purple lol.

Yeah, purple! Or purple with white and green trims??

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Max has had another couple seizure type episodes, only he doesn’t panic like the first few times. Now he just stands there and presses his body against my leg. He is a trip hazard for me so I always look where he is before I take a step anyway. If he’s not near me when an episode happens he stands still and lowers his head and wags his tail madly against a wall or cupboard or appliance and I hear that whacking, it’s loud, and I go to him and hold his head still. If he is asleep on his bed and it happens he will scratch me on the leg, something I don’t like him doing. He alerts me so I can go to him to help him. He is an amazing dog.

Got an amazing owner…good that he’s not panicking any more…

Happy Potter said:

The Trendy Trailer is out on loan to a friend. I’ve been asked if it’s going to be sprayed pink. No way! ..maybe purple lol.

Yeah, purple! Or purple with white and green trims??

Maybe black to match the mags, and a spoiler lol.

Thankyou for your kind comment. Max and I are very close, in tune with each other even.

Hi people. Thought I’d pop in just to let you knoe I haven’t died. We’ve been away house sitting while daughter and family had a holiday in NZ.

No rain happening round here. Everything is very dry. The usual springtime weather. Vegies all seem to be managing ok. Still eating silverbeet, beans and brocolli. Cabbage are ready and caulis are forming. Cape goosberries won’t be long either.

Aside from the vegies all the spring flowers are out and although very dry it looks a picture around the yard.

Stay well and happy folks.

life goes on but watering is serious business.

roughbarked said:

life goes on but watering is serious business.

!http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7371/9726384143_cfdcc47b41_z.jpg

Not coming up, do we need to be in flickr already for it to show?

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

life goes on but watering is serious business.

!http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7371/9726384143_cfdcc47b41_z.jpg

Not coming up, do we need to be in flickr already for it to show?

maybe you need to be flickr member for me to befriend..

I’d wait and see if the image loads by copying the link to a new window. If this doesn’t work, then Yahoo is trying to track your movements.

roughbarked said:

maybe you need to be flickr member for me to befriend..

I’d wait and see if the image loads by copying the link to a new window. If this doesn’t work, then Yahoo is trying to track your movements.

Could be (I need to be a flickr member)…

Tried the copy but it didn’t work, came up with the same message as in your post…

Getting down and dirty, hey? Won’t be long and he’ll be having little holidays with you…

bluegreen said:

Weeee, cutie :)

Dinetta said:

Getting down and dirty, hey? Won’t be long and he’ll be having little holidays with you…

that’s RB’s picture of his granddaughter – the one you couldn’t see.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Getting down and dirty, hey? Won’t be long and he’ll be having little holidays with you…

that’s RB’s picture of his granddaughter – the one you couldn’t see.

Oooooh…

Could you see it?

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Getting down and dirty, hey? Won’t be long and he’ll be having little holidays with you…

that’s RB’s picture of his granddaughter – the one you couldn’t see.

Oooooh…

Could you see it?

There was an ] at the end of RoughBarked’s URL, was that the problem?

Dinetta said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

that’s RB’s picture of his granddaughter – the one you couldn’t see.

Oooooh…

Could you see it?

There was an ] at the end of RoughBarked’s URL, was that the problem?

I probably didn’t delete all the Flickr guff.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

Dinetta said:

Oooooh…

Could you see it?

There was an ] at the end of RoughBarked’s URL, was that the problem?

I probably didn’t delete all the Flickr guff.

Never mind, curiosity killed the cat but information has brought it back…charming photo RoughBarked, is this at your place?

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

There was an ] at the end of RoughBarked’s URL, was that the problem?

I probably didn’t delete all the Flickr guff.

Never mind, curiosity killed the cat but information has brought it back…charming photo RoughBarked, is this at your place?

No. the photo is taken in Canberra at her place.

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

Getting down and dirty, hey? Won’t be long and he’ll be having little holidays with you…

that’s RB’s picture of his granddaughter – the one you couldn’t see.

Oooooh…

Could you see it?

not at first, but I found it.

Dinetta said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

that’s RB’s picture of his granddaughter – the one you couldn’t see.

Oooooh…

Could you see it?

There was an ] at the end of RoughBarked’s URL, was that the problem?

I think so.

The big yard clean up continues..JJ is working hard moving stuff and sorting wanted from unwanted and recycling from rubbish. Next he and I are going to clean out my shed, me directing, him lifting and sorting junk from good. This is now, tonight, under patio lights.

Hello Gardeners. I will be mowing grass tomorrow, if it doesn’t rain. In the meantime, supper!

I made tiramisu. I only used the amount of sambucca and galliano that it said in the recipe. Then I licked out the bowl. I may be unused to alcohol. Nice though.

Happy Potter said:

The big yard clean up continues..JJ is working hard moving stuff and sorting wanted from unwanted and recycling from rubbish. Next he and I are going to clean out my shed, me directing, him lifting and sorting junk from good. This is now, tonight, under patio lights.

Jolly good!

buffy said:

Hello Gardeners. I will be mowing grass tomorrow, if it doesn’t rain. In the meantime, supper!

I made tiramisu. I only used the amount of sambucca and galliano that it said in the recipe. Then I licked out the bowl. I may be unused to alcohol. Nice though.

The one in the top LHS looks just the thing, I’ll have that one if you don’t mind…

I’m off to a gardener friends place to help her rescue her seedlings. She and her hubby went o’seas for 3 weeks and the non gardening house minder didn’t water them. Then their dog pulled out all her growing strawberry plants. I kept some trays of them here to look after while she was away. I will keep minding them for a few weeks still.

Happy Potter said:

I’m off to a gardener friends place to help her rescue her seedlings. She and her hubby went o’seas for 3 weeks and the non gardening house minder didn’t water them. Then their dog pulled out all her growing strawberry plants. I kept some trays of them here to look after while she was away. I will keep minding them for a few weeks still.

You’re a good friend!

decided I definitely wouldn’t turn the compost heap today when I saw a black snake slithering around in it. Well, the tail of one anyway!

bluegreen said:

decided I definitely wouldn’t turn the compost heap today when I saw a black snake slithering around in it. Well, the tail of one anyway!

I’ll be working on mine later, got heaps of chooken dirt to add…

Chookens all under the guava, I moved their Grandpa’s Feeder over as they were ever so hungry yesterday afternoon…supposedly 35C here…guess things will dry fast if I wash them…

Hello Gardeners. Been mowing a meadow at Casterton. If we do it again next weekend, that will be three weekends end on end, and I should be able to use the mulch mower. If the grass dries out enough. It’s looking pretty good though. Still plenty of tidying up to do though.

Buschka is presently ‘minding’ the puppy in the dog run:

We had a puppy accident on the futon mattress some weeks ago, so I had to buy a new one. We put the old one out in the dog run for now, on the remains of a couch that we scrounged some years ago from an acquaintance. So far the dogs have simply sat on it and enjoyed it, but I have no doubt that at some point mischief will win out and it will get pulled to bits. Buschka does find it exhausting doing the minding though:

Not sure if this will work…long time..

Okay that photo was just taken out the back. Magpies are enjoying all the grubs from the long grass.

My Avon is going well and I bought the elf a whipper sniped and a blow vac to help keep the yard tidier. Next on the list after some more saving is the raised bed.

Lots of lovely magpies in our area.

I like the maggies. Ours here are entirely used to us and the dogs.

The floating floor in our kitchen and hall is finished, and the painting nearly done. So the kitchen table is back, but the fridge is still in the laundry for a bit longer. The painter had another job and as we were a fill in job, we’ll have to wait for him. I’ll finish off a bit of stuff so another cabinet can come back in, but there are 2 big walls up to 13ft ceilings that I’ll leave for him to finish off.

looking smart :)

Love the floors Buffy

It’s a floating floor, covering our Baltic pine which was sanded and finished 12 years ago and now getting ragged. We didn’t want to sand again (yet), so the floating floor will preserve it for another 10 years or so. The colour is called Red Gum. Slippy for the dogs though! (Amusing for us…)

buffy said:

Buschka does find it exhausting doing the minding though:

Heh heh!

Lucky1 said:

Not sure if this will work…long time..

Well done!

All looking very good, Buffy!

Now that it is cool enough (34C) and the sun is going down, I’ll head off and “do something” about the fertiliser under the chicken roosts…

Even for LifeLine, those curtain drops were cheep, all those years ago…just found out why…the selvedge is across the curtain instead of the drop…however am recycling as individual window curtains on casement (side opening hopper kind of things) windows so it doesn’t really matter…but I will just manage to get the length / drop.

Hi guys, sorry I haven’t been in here for aaaaaaaaaaages!
I hope you’re all well, and that your gardens are all growing nicely.
Is anyone good at identifying plants/animals/fungi from photos? If so, I’d muchly appreciate some help labelling my photos on Flickr – I’m quite slack at doing it myself, and have either forgotten what some things are, or didn’t know what they were in the first place.
Thanks in advance.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fresnel_chick/

Morning green ones. I have been learning how to prune a passionfruit. It was the first time I knew they could be pruned or even needed it! What a tangle it was, an impenetrable jungle with a mushroom shape at the top. Within that top mass there were heaps of unripened fruit.
Now I’ve isolated all the main leaders and laterals, tied the leaders and pruned the laterals back to a node. At the top there will be a sort of angled mesh ledge come out; this will maximize the amount of sun it gets.
This should get me lots more fruit. Hopefully.

fresnel_chick said:

Hi guys, sorry I haven’t been in here for aaaaaaaaaaages!
I hope you’re all well, and that your gardens are all growing nicely.
Is anyone good at identifying plants/animals/fungi from photos? If so, I’d muchly appreciate some help labelling my photos on Flickr – I’m quite slack at doing it myself, and have either forgotten what some things are, or didn’t know what they were in the first place.
Thanks in advance.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fresnel_chick/

It would be a good idea if you put the ones you want ID’d, into an album, as there’s a lot of photos there…

fresnel_chick said:

Hi guys, sorry I haven’t been in here for aaaaaaaaaaages!
I hope you’re all well, and that your gardens are all growing nicely.
Is anyone good at identifying plants/animals/fungi from photos? If so, I’d muchly appreciate some help labelling my photos on Flickr – I’m quite slack at doing it myself, and have either forgotten what some things are, or didn’t know what they were in the first place.
Thanks in advance.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fresnel_chick/

Yes make a set titled unidentified and plonk them all there.

Also, for dialup users add ?details=1
ie: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fresnel_chick/?details=1

Morning….. raining like heck here. Need me gumboots to let the gang out this morning.

Lucky1 said:

Morning….. raining like heck here. Need me gumboots to let the gang out this morning.

Rain heading this way too. What ‘gang’ have you got now Lucky? :)

Lucky1 said:

Morning….. raining like heck here. Need me gumboots to let the gang out this morning.

Good to hear!

Hello Gardeners. Not much gardening for me today, although I might make sure the tomato seeds get out of packets and into seed raising mix. I’ve been to the dentist for my annual scale and clean. And there is more trim painting to do in the kitchen, so that will be my afternoon’s entertainment. Lunch first though. Chicken drumsticks roasting, salad made (and partly consumed!)

Happy Potter said:

Lucky1 said:

Morning….. raining like heck here. Need me gumboots to let the gang out this morning.

Rain heading this way too. What ‘gang’ have you got now Lucky? :)

In Ducks I have , Bundy, Rhett, Sunny and Daphne. Chooks I had still Hotlips and Klinger from BG’s egg donation. Plus a few of the Red Betty’s, blue rinse set and Mango.

Slowly getting the kitchen back together. The baking bench is back in its new position now. My Kenwood Major and multipro are no longer sitting on the loungeroom floor.

:)

Morning y’awl… was in withdrawal earlier, couldn’t get this site up, all OK now…

Dinetta said:

Morning y’awl… was in withdrawal earlier, couldn’t get this site up, all OK now…

Yes it has not been performing well this morn.. the site thta is.

Dinetta said:

Morning y’awl… was in withdrawal earlier, couldn’t get this site up, all OK now…

Yes it has not been performing well this morn.. the site that is.

Morning all. The garden is looking a bit brighter after that nice bit of rain, about 23 mm. Leeks standing upright.

I’ve got GS and his girlfriend and her ginea pig here for a couple days. The piggy needs vet attention so I’m going to take the girl to my vets with her pet. We put it in a galv’ rat enclosure and covered the lot with a heavy blanket, mainly for it’s safety from Max who wants to check out what that mystery creature is that lurks within it. The cage is in a corner of the patio and Max gets in some awkward positions trying to see in it.

I have some brooder boxes to clean out, a slow process that will keep me busy for the day.

Happy Potter said:

Morning all. The garden is looking a bit brighter after that nice bit of rain, about 23 mm. Leeks standing upright.

I’ve got GS and his girlfriend and her ginea pig here for a couple days.

I have some brooder boxes to clean out, a slow process that will keep me busy for the day.

Gotta love a soaking rain…be nice to have the visitors just for a few days…and I see you’ve found something productive to do and are leaving defenceless chickies alone…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning all. The garden is looking a bit brighter after that nice bit of rain, about 23 mm. Leeks standing upright.

I’ve got GS and his girlfriend and her ginea pig here for a couple days.

I have some brooder boxes to clean out, a slow process that will keep me busy for the day.

Gotta love a soaking rain…be nice to have the visitors just for a few days…and I see you’ve found something productive to do and are leaving defenceless chickies alone…

Hehehe. I uploaded that pic on my facebook page and the only person who thought it was real is from the US..

The guinea pig is ok, it’s teeth will grow back. I’ve been feeding it watercress and silverbeet leaves and it’s eaten well. Thank goodness it goes home tomorrow as Max is very annoyed he can’t have a sniff, lol.

Go here to see whose birthday Goooooogle is celebrating today…be quick as it won’t be there tomorrow

https://www.google.com.au/

Dinetta said:

Go here to see whose birthday Goooooogle is celebrating today…be quick as it won’t be there tomorrow

https://www.google.com.au/

I wondered where they went when I searched.

Now here’s an idiot for you

It’s a viedo, RoughBarked, low resolution tho’ I think..

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

Go here to see whose birthday Goooooogle is celebrating today…be quick as it won’t be there tomorrow

https://www.google.com.au/

I wondered where they went when I searched.

I’m not sure what I clicked on as well, but it took me to an online newspaper as well and this explained the fascinating achievements of this chap…

Dinetta said:

Now here’s an idiot for you

It’s a viedo, RoughBarked, low resolution tho’ I think..

There’s footage from 3 cameras…and the sun is a black dot…

…and they are going to charge him with ignoring the “do not cross” signs…bet the train drivers had a few rums that night…

Well that was the last episode of my favourite Dr Who and companion series…Donna Noble…I wonder if people realise this is a play on the Spanish “Dona” (I think that’s Spanish???) and so she’s a Noble Lady…

Dinetta said:

Well that was the last episode of my favourite Dr Who and companion series…Donna Noble…I wonder if people realise this is a play on the Spanish “Dona” (I think that’s Spanish???) and so she’s a Noble Lady…

never miss much, it is true.

Woohoo I’ve got a bee hive :) Just the bottom box for now. Don’t ask me what it’s called, lol. It’s well out of the way of people traffic.
Local swap fellow is putting them about at friends places and will tend to it. I don’t have to do anything, thank goodness. I’m looking forward to some real honey :)

Happy Potter said:

Woohoo I’ve got a bee hive :) Just the bottom box for now. Don’t ask me what it’s called, lol. It’s well out of the way of people traffic.
Local swap fellow is putting them about at friends places and will tend to it. I don’t have to do anything, thank goodness. I’m looking forward to some real honey :)

Jelly!!

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Woohoo I’ve got a bee hive :) Just the bottom box for now. Don’t ask me what it’s called, lol. It’s well out of the way of people traffic.
Local swap fellow is putting them about at friends places and will tend to it. I don’t have to do anything, thank goodness. I’m looking forward to some real honey :)

Jelly!!

Brood Box

Needs a thread of its’ own, I reckon…

Happy Potter said:

Woohoo I’ve got a bee hive :) Just the bottom box for now. Don’t ask me what it’s called, lol. It’s well out of the way of people traffic.
Local swap fellow is putting them about at friends places and will tend to it. I don’t have to do anything, thank goodness. I’m looking forward to some real honey :)

Brood box, yes :)

I’m making a list of herbs and other plants to get in to sustain them through the seasons. There’s plenty for them in my packed out garden and in the wider area already but I need to get basil and borage in, lemon balm, pumpkins and so on.

Television tonight: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Scott and Bailey, and Dr Who Planet of the Dead…

Also a programme “Can have Sex, Will have Sex”…wonder if they’ll CC it?

Learning about trees, fruit or otherwise, and mulch, and got a question(s) going on observing what others do. If you can answer, I’d be most pleased :)

How much mulch is too much? What’s the correct depth? If it’s compacted over time, does it need to be dug out or turned over? If it’s compacted manure, but still soft, easy to dig, will that place too much weight on the roots? ( I heard that said and thought it weird) Does it matter if the mulch is higher on one side, however slightly?

“New Tricks” Series 10 tomorrow night…this might be in its’ twilight…Waking the Dead Series 9 (the last series) much later…

Wouldn’t mind another repeat of Foyles’ War…

Happy Potter said:

Learning about trees, fruit or otherwise, and mulch, and got a question(s) going on observing what others do. If you can answer, I’d be most pleased :)

How much mulch is too much? What’s the correct depth? If it’s compacted over time, does it need to be dug out or turned over? If it’s compacted manure, but still soft, easy to dig, will that place too much weight on the roots? ( I heard that said and thought it weird) Does it matter if the mulch is higher on one side, however slightly?

Mulch is really a form of compost, in my books. You can have too little mulch, but the depth would depend on a few factors like how cool do you want the root run, is the mulch letting the water (moisture) go through…Mulch, in my experience, is only a problem if the soil has dried out and the mulch has become water-repellent. Ditto with compacted manure…if the water is getting through or the manure mulch is keeping the soil moist and cool, then the mulch is doing its’ job, “compacted” or not.

Yes I think “too much weight on the roots” is weird…I mean how much soil is “too much weight” come to that.?

I’m about to “mulch” with thoroughly soaked egg cartons and chooken manure, topped with a couple of newspapers then some flat ex-pallet planks (to stop the chooks from digging up)…my hope is to keep the chooks from digging around the grapevine (hope it’s not dead) and the roses, whilst keeping the root runs moist and cool…I’ll have to shove the hose underneath all this in order to drip-water the plants but that’s probably the more efficient way to go in our heat…

With fruit trees, the conventional wisdom is to mulch out near the drip line, this is where the feeder roots are: no feeder roots near the trunks.

RoughBarked will explain this better than I can…and I look forward to his input…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Learning about trees, fruit or otherwise, and mulch, and got a question(s) going on observing what others do. If you can answer, I’d be most pleased :)

How much mulch is too much? What’s the correct depth? If it’s compacted over time, does it need to be dug out or turned over? If it’s compacted manure, but still soft, easy to dig, will that place too much weight on the roots? ( I heard that said and thought it weird) Does it matter if the mulch is higher on one side, however slightly?

Mulch is really a form of compost, in my books. You can have too little mulch, but the depth would depend on a few factors like how cool do you want the root run, is the mulch letting the water (moisture) go through…Mulch, in my experience, is only a problem if the soil has dried out and the mulch has become water-repellent. Ditto with compacted manure…if the water is getting through or the manure mulch is keeping the soil moist and cool, then the mulch is doing its’ job, “compacted” or not.

Yes I think “too much weight on the roots” is weird…I mean how much soil is “too much weight” come to that.?

I’m about to “mulch” with thoroughly soaked egg cartons and chooken manure, topped with a couple of newspapers then some flat ex-pallet planks (to stop the chooks from digging up)…my hope is to keep the chooks from digging around the grapevine (hope it’s not dead) and the roses, whilst keeping the root runs moist and cool…I’ll have to shove the hose underneath all this in order to drip-water the plants but that’s probably the more efficient way to go in our heat…

With fruit trees, the conventional wisdom is to mulch out near the drip line, this is where the feeder roots are: no feeder roots near the trunks.

RoughBarked will explain this better than I can…and I look forward to his input…

Thankyou Dinetta. I’ve never heard it said before about mulch placing too much weight on a trees roots and thought for a moment I might be in the twilight zone.

The tree in question they were working on was fine, full of health and had no drainage problems. And the soil level matches that of other trees. This is a newish orchard bloke and I am wondering what planet he came from.
Then I thought maybe I’m wrong…

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Learning about trees, fruit or otherwise, and mulch, and got a question(s) going on observing what others do. If you can answer, I’d be most pleased :)

How much mulch is too much? What’s the correct depth? If it’s compacted over time, does it need to be dug out or turned over? If it’s compacted manure, but still soft, easy to dig, will that place too much weight on the roots? ( I heard that said and thought it weird) Does it matter if the mulch is higher on one side, however slightly?

Mulch is really a form of compost, in my books. You can have too little mulch, but the depth would depend on a few factors like how cool do you want the root run, is the mulch letting the water (moisture) go through…Mulch, in my experience, is only a problem if the soil has dried out and the mulch has become water-repellent. Ditto with compacted manure…if the water is getting through or the manure mulch is keeping the soil moist and cool, then the mulch is doing its’ job, “compacted” or not.

Yes I think “too much weight on the roots” is weird…I mean how much soil is “too much weight” come to that.?

I’m about to “mulch” with thoroughly soaked egg cartons and chooken manure, topped with a couple of newspapers then some flat ex-pallet planks (to stop the chooks from digging up)…my hope is to keep the chooks from digging around the grapevine (hope it’s not dead) and the roses, whilst keeping the root runs moist and cool…I’ll have to shove the hose underneath all this in order to drip-water the plants but that’s probably the more efficient way to go in our heat…

With fruit trees, the conventional wisdom is to mulch out near the drip line, this is where the feeder roots are: no feeder roots near the trunks.

RoughBarked will explain this better than I can…and I look forward to his input…

To quote Bill Mollison: 6” of mulch holds 2” of water…
Well, this may be true if the mulch is leaf litter in a Tasmanian forest or indeed if the water is put there and the mulch holds it in. May not be necessarily true in all instances of how we perceive mulch.

Yes the drip line is where most trees need the water retention, it is also where the trees drip the water. Naturally it is also where the weeds get both the water and the protection, not to mention both the leaf litter and the blown litter.

Mulching with cardboard near the trunks may temporarily assist with weed controls and with keeping chooks at bay but not for long.

I think trees can cope with quite a lot of manures but too much material too close to the trunk can also lead to other problems, ie; harbouring pests and diseases.

Happy Potter said:

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Learning about trees, fruit or otherwise, and mulch, and got a question(s) going on observing what others do. If you can answer, I’d be most pleased :)

How much mulch is too much? What’s the correct depth? If it’s compacted over time, does it need to be dug out or turned over? If it’s compacted manure, but still soft, easy to dig, will that place too much weight on the roots? ( I heard that said and thought it weird) Does it matter if the mulch is higher on one side, however slightly?

Mulch is really a form of compost, in my books. You can have too little mulch, but the depth would depend on a few factors like how cool do you want the root run, is the mulch letting the water (moisture) go through…Mulch, in my experience, is only a problem if the soil has dried out and the mulch has become water-repellent. Ditto with compacted manure…if the water is getting through or the manure mulch is keeping the soil moist and cool, then the mulch is doing its’ job, “compacted” or not.

Yes I think “too much weight on the roots” is weird…I mean how much soil is “too much weight” come to that.?

I’m about to “mulch” with thoroughly soaked egg cartons and chooken manure, topped with a couple of newspapers then some flat ex-pallet planks (to stop the chooks from digging up)…my hope is to keep the chooks from digging around the grapevine (hope it’s not dead) and the roses, whilst keeping the root runs moist and cool…I’ll have to shove the hose underneath all this in order to drip-water the plants but that’s probably the more efficient way to go in our heat…

With fruit trees, the conventional wisdom is to mulch out near the drip line, this is where the feeder roots are: no feeder roots near the trunks.

RoughBarked will explain this better than I can…and I look forward to his input…

Thankyou Dinetta. I’ve never heard it said before about mulch placing too much weight on a trees roots and thought for a moment I might be in the twilight zone.

The tree in question they were working on was fine, full of health and had no drainage problems. And the soil level matches that of other trees. This is a newish orchard bloke and I am wondering what planet he came from.
Then I thought maybe I’m wrong…

too much weight, may be meaning too much stress.

roughbarked said:

too much weight, may be meaning too much stress.

I was thinking about this during my constitutional just now, and I am wondering if the person means too much weight = impermeatability (if that’s a word, pretty sure it’s not)… maybe s/he means too thick = moisture can’t penetrate? This wouldn’t be a problem, I reckon, if the moisture is kept up to the soil beneath the mulch…

I’m a firm believer in a “collar” for fruit trees if you’re going to mulch up close to the trunk…is Bill Morrison the chap who advises placing bricks around the trunk to protect it from possible fungi that might breed in the mulch?

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

too much weight, may be meaning too much stress.

I was thinking about this during my constitutional just now, and I am wondering if the person means too much weight = impermeatability (if that’s a word, pretty sure it’s not)… maybe s/he means too thick = moisture can’t penetrate? This wouldn’t be a problem, I reckon, if the moisture is kept up to the soil beneath the mulch…

I’m a firm believer in a “collar” for fruit trees if you’re going to mulch up close to the trunk…is Bill Morrison the chap who advises placing bricks around the trunk to protect it from possible fungi that might breed in the mulch?

Bill Mollison originated permaculture.. as to bricks.. I have no problem with that but I can’t guarantee he said it.

roughbarked said:

Bill Mollison originated permaculture.. as to bricks.. I have no problem with that but I can’t guarantee he said it.

Is he the South Australian chap? Sung the praises of pigeon poo and kept pigeons for this purpose?

Yep, he’s the one who said put a barrier between mulch and tree trunks…

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Bill Mollison originated permaculture.. as to bricks.. I have no problem with that but I can’t guarantee he said it.

Is he the South Australian chap? Sung the praises of pigeon poo and kept pigeons for this purpose?

Yep, he’s the one who said put a barrier between mulch and tree trunks…

Would have said Bill was Tasmanian. but I may need to research that.

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

too much weight, may be meaning too much stress.

I was thinking about this during my constitutional just now, and I am wondering if the person means too much weight = impermeatability (if that’s a word, pretty sure it’s not)… maybe s/he means too thick = moisture can’t penetrate? This wouldn’t be a problem, I reckon, if the moisture is kept up to the soil beneath the mulch…

I’m a firm believer in a “collar” for fruit trees if you’re going to mulch up close to the trunk…is Bill Morrison the chap who advises placing bricks around the trunk to protect it from possible fungi that might breed in the mulch?

No, he meant too much weight literally on the roots, it has to be freed up, that’s how he said it. Water soaks through really well and it’s manure mixed with other straw and leaf mulch, perfect compost.. I smell a rat.. or he has an ulterior motive. It doesn’t make sense. It’s complicated but if allowed to remove the mulch around it I am sure, even without any tree knowledge, the tree will suffer immeasurably.

It’s not going to happen. I will get to the bottom of it.

Thanks my friendly forumers, it’s been a good tree and mulch lesson anyway :)

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

roughbarked said:

Bill Mollison originated permaculture.. as to bricks.. I have no problem with that but I can’t guarantee he said it.

Is he the South Australian chap? Sung the praises of pigeon poo and kept pigeons for this purpose?

Yep, he’s the one who said put a barrier between mulch and tree trunks…

Would have said Bill was Tasmanian. but I may need to research that.

No no no no…I remember now…it’s Peter Bennett I’m thinking of….sorry…my thinking was fuzzy…

Morning all. It’s vege swap day again and I have my goodies to take. Manure tea, seeds and seedlings of all sorts, tomatoes, cucs, sunflowers and some potted yacon sprouts.

When I get back the ‘clean team’, family, will be here to clean up the patio and carport. There’ll be my very trendy handy little trailer to do a tip run, plus a friends bigger caged trailer that’ll be used to take the bedheads to a large garage to the ‘marsh to be transformed into seating.

There’s tons to do. Move a water IBC into the corner to be hooked up to a downpipe, rest of the pile of pebbles into AP bed 2, bessa blocks to move, and lots more.

I’ll be pottering about, and as the gate will be pinned open, chook and dog minding. I have some more marmalade to make and lime cordial too so gotta wash some jars and bottles.

Can’t keep a good girl down…

been riding, more later :D

Hello Gardeners. I have ridden the pushbike, weeded and mowed today. Weeding at Penshurst, mowing at Casterton. I’m overnighting at Casterton and Mr buffy will join me in the morning. He’ll bring the rideon. I use the pusharound (motored) mower. If I get a lot of my mowing done late afternoon and then sleep here, I can get out into the veggie weeding and digging and other stuff before 9.00am when we can start the mowers again.

Happy Potter said:

Woohoo I’ve got a bee hive :) Just the bottom box for now. Don’t ask me what it’s called, lol. It’s well out of the way of people traffic.
Local swap fellow is putting them about at friends places and will tend to it. I don’t have to do anything, thank goodness. I’m looking forward to some real honey :)

Awesome……

And here is what I have been doing in the last 24 hours. I mowed yesterday evening, and this morning I weeded and dug the veggie patch, and planted out seedlings. There are cabbages, Kailaan broccoli, Romanesco broccoli, leeks, cylinder and round beetroot, lettuce. There was already some potatoes, garlic and silver beet in. Still to go in are some peas, tomatoes, corn……and I’m sure I’ll think of some other things!

And this is where the patients come in to the practice:

And I’m quite pleased with the way the more broadscale bits are coming along now:

buffy said:

And here is what I have been doing in the last 24 hours. I mowed yesterday evening, and this morning I weeded and dug the veggie patch, and planted out seedlings. There are cabbages, Kailaan broccoli, Romanesco broccoli, leeks, cylinder and round beetroot, lettuce. There was already some potatoes, garlic and silver beet in. Still to go in are some peas, tomatoes, corn……and I’m sure I’ll think of some other things!

looking good :)

Morning. What a busy weekend! But first this..pasted from a friends site. What the heck?

‘A bill before the NSW parliament this week will make it illegal to possess or sell any live plant that contains mescaline, harmaline, DMT, ephedrine, cathinone or structural analogues. More than half the cactus and wattle species contain such compounds in trace amounts, but the law makes no distinction between trace amounts and usable drug amounts.” Basically, thousands of garden plants including all types of herbs, collectible cacti and wattle trees- including the national floral emblem- will become illegal to grow in your garden. What are they going to do, go around forcing millions of people to hack up their lovingly tended gardens and natural bush blocks?’

Good morning Gardeners. I have some mild gardening to do today. And I’m going to Hamilton around lunchtime to say hello to my parents who are on a bus trip to Mount Gambier this week, going through Hamilton for lunch today.

Happy Potter, I’ve seen that bit you posted before. Quite a long time ago. Can’t recall where.

Ah, I suspect it was a couple of years ago:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/australiatalks/banned-plants/2995042

buffy said:

Ah, I suspect it was a couple of years ago:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/australiatalks/banned-plants/2995042

Right. Seems it pops up now and again.

I’m cleaning windows with a soaped up broom and wiped clean with a tea towel, or fifteen. The sheer curtains are ready to re hang. That will happen the moment the next human being enters my kitchen, lol.

bluegreen said:

buffy said:

And here is what I have been doing in the last 24 hours. I mowed yesterday evening, and this morning I weeded and dug the veggie patch, and planted out seedlings. There are cabbages, Kailaan broccoli, Romanesco broccoli, leeks, cylinder and round beetroot, lettuce. There was already some potatoes, garlic and silver beet in. Still to go in are some peas, tomatoes, corn……and I’m sure I’ll think of some other things!

looking good :)

Yes it does…

Happy Potter said:

Morning. What a busy weekend! But first this..pasted from a friends site. What the heck?

‘A bill before the NSW parliament this week will make it illegal to possess or sell any live plant that contains mescaline, harmaline, DMT, ephedrine, cathinone or structural analogues. More than half the cactus and wattle species contain such compounds in trace amounts, but the law makes no distinction between trace amounts and usable drug amounts.” Basically, thousands of garden plants including all types of herbs, collectible cacti and wattle trees- including the national floral emblem- will become illegal to grow in your garden. What are they going to do, go around forcing millions of people to hack up their lovingly tended gardens and natural bush blocks?’

Obviously being presented by somebody who knows nothing about plants?

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning. What a busy weekend! But first this..pasted from a friends site. What the heck?

‘A bill before the NSW parliament this week will make it illegal to possess or sell any live plant that contains mescaline, harmaline, DMT, ephedrine, cathinone or structural analogues. More than half the cactus and wattle species contain such compounds in trace amounts, but the law makes no distinction between trace amounts and usable drug amounts.” Basically, thousands of garden plants including all types of herbs, collectible cacti and wattle trees- including the national floral emblem- will become illegal to grow in your garden. What are they going to do, go around forcing millions of people to hack up their lovingly tended gardens and natural bush blocks?’

Obviously being presented by somebody who knows nothing about plants?

It is all about the fact that many plants contain various chemicals that may be extracted and used by people experimenting with other sources of banned drugs such as DMT.
For a long rime it has been illegal to grow or sell most of the poppies because they contain opiates. I recall the police busting nurseries in Victoria for selling Shirley poppies.

It is crazy, what are they going to do, raze the bush because there are natural sources of many drugs and poisons?

Well today Sonny Jim was ordered by his father to come up and “help your mum out’, seeing as P does not like helping me with anything to do with domesticity.

So I showed Sonny Jim where I want another coop to go, that I can put Goldie into when she’s setting. This will give her space to stretch her legs, scratch around and dust bathe without being bullied by The Big Girls. She can also leave her nest secure in the knowledge that her eggs wont be turned over by The Big Girls when she’s not looking. Sonny Jim is making her a little “hut”, about 40cm x 40cm x 40cm, with a little raised roof (to let air circulate). This will sit on the ground (no floor) and she can feel safe and secure and secluded whilst incubating her eggs. I’ll be able to go away for a couple of days and not have to worry about her security.

The lid has gone down on the Grandpa’s Feeder and the hens are not impressed. They haven’t quite worked out the footplate = lid raise yet but some of them just walk up for a sticky beak and hey! there’s our food!. I also bought a sunflower bell that’s intended for wild birds…the hens stand there and look at it and haven’t worked out that it’s their favourite grain yet.

Hopefully next time Sonny Jim rocks up, we will move that footbath and stand into the area where the Grandpa’s Feeder now is (crows won’t go there). There is a little float mechanism that I have put in a safe place “somewhere” and I can hook it up to the hose when I go away and between the feeder and the automatic waterer, I need only for someone to collect the eggs. All that’s needed then is some rocks so the chookens can step up to the waterer and a piece of wood in the water in case they fall in…

I’m not sure if Sonny Jim has work tomorrow: he’s casual with the fencer and there was no work today.

Also got some furniture moved. This is the 3rd year sparky’s apprentice with the magic touch: my kitchen scales stopped working in spite of new batteries: Sonny Joe tapped them and hey presto they work! Then the TV / DVD system: I had hooked it up but it was no go…then Sonny Joe replaces the outties into the innies, just like I did and blow me down, the DVD’s now work. I got quite egg-sited but then I realised that I need a remote control in order to select the sub-titles. I think I threw all the old ones out…:(

So I have had an egg-siting day. The recliner is set up under the house with the old bar as a bookshelf, and now I’ve somewhere cool if I need a nanna nap.

sounds like a very productive day Dinetta :)

Haven’t been in the garden much over the last couple of weeks. Been to Canberra and then last weekend #1 son had a 30th birthday bash at our place which required quite a lot panic of cleaning etc. True to our usual form we started ripping up the grotty carpet a few days before the party and did a heap of cleaning and clearing out of rubbish that should have been tackled months ago….oh well. We were sort of organised when the revellers arrived.

Now I’m in Sydney babysitting for the rest of the week. Luckily I was able to get a bit done on the weekend in the vegie patch. I planted a second lot of spuds, mulched up the first lot, planted pumpkins and more zucchini, more mulching and gave everything a good water so that they will be ok while I am away.

I have a heap of plants that I grew from cuttings…forsythia, gardenia etc, but I never seem to get around to creating the beds to plant them out. I’ll have to get the forsythias planted though, because the cuttings were taken from the family farm before my brother sold it and they along with the fig and rose I grew from cuttings are my last link with that farm.

bluegreen said:

sounds like a very productive day Dinetta :)

Yes sigh it was…besides the fact it was ever so nice to have Sonny Jim all by himself…made a roast chicken (from the butcher, they’re the best fresh chickens) and vegetables and he was kind enough to finish off the chocolate pudding for me…

Good morning Gardeners. It is 8 degrees and overcast here. I’ll be off to work shortly.

buffy said:

Good morning Gardeners. It is 8 degrees and overcast here. I’ll be off to work shortly.

Morning buffy. It is 13C here in Sydney and heading for 29C

Morning all, 21C here but it feels colder, there’s a 17knot northerly blowing down…

Morning from me too. It’s coolish but nice, T shirt weather. I picked some asparagus, seasoled a few seedlings, and planted out another rhody.

The Great Chook Choir is loudly singing their ‘I laid an egg’ song. The young leghorn pullets are coming into lay and don’t know where to go because every nest box is occupied and they are most annoyed and letting their displeasure known.
They’ll work it out.

Kids coming over for tea tonight, and they’re bringing the food :D

Happy Potter said:

The Great Chook Choir is loudly singing their ‘I laid an egg’ song. The young leghorn pullets are coming into lay and don’t know where to go because every nest box is occupied and they are most annoyed and letting their displeasure known.
They’ll work it out.

One would hope they haven’t the hidey-places that mine have…

Happy Potter said:

Kids coming over for tea tonight, and they’re bringing the food :D

Jolly good show!

Who wants to come and turn my compost for me?

bluegreen said:

Who wants to come and turn my compost for me?

Ah no thanks :)

bluegreen said:

Who wants to come and turn my compost for me?

The tales I can tell about snakes on the end of the garden fork while turning compost.

bluegreen said:

Who wants to come and turn my compost for me?

Urk.
No sorry I can’t, I have a crook back ;)

bluegreen said:

Who wants to come and turn my compost for me?

I will…I need the exercise…Slithery there will slip away soon enough from my heavy tread…or did you call in a snake catcher?

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Who wants to come and turn my compost for me?

I will…I need the exercise…Slithery there will slip away soon enough from my heavy tread…or did you call in a snake catcher?

It is still around somewhere. I see it as a means of keeping the mice population down. Just don’t fancy upsetting it by poking at it with a fork if I can avoid it.

bluegreen said:

I see it as a means of keeping the mice population down. Just don’t fancy upsetting it by poking at it with a fork if I can avoid it.

My sentiments egg-sacly…

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Who wants to come and turn my compost for me?

I will…I need the exercise…Slithery there will slip away soon enough from my heavy tread…or did you call in a snake catcher?

It is still around somewhere. I see it as a means of keeping the mice population down. Just don’t fancy upsetting it by poking at it with a fork if I can avoid it.

Diamond python?

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

I will…I need the exercise…Slithery there will slip away soon enough from my heavy tread…or did you call in a snake catcher?

It is still around somewhere. I see it as a means of keeping the mice population down. Just don’t fancy upsetting it by poking at it with a fork if I can avoid it.

Diamond python?

I think it is a red bellied black, although I haven’t tried to roll it over to check its belly!

bluegreen said:

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

It is still around somewhere. I see it as a means of keeping the mice population down. Just don’t fancy upsetting it by poking at it with a fork if I can avoid it.

Diamond python?

I think it is a red bellied black, although I haven’t tried to roll it over to check its belly!

I thought it looked like a black snake too. They don’t always have a red belly, sometimes it is a pale orange or dirty pink. From my experience they are the least aggressive.

And according to the man at Healesville sanctuary a couple of years ago, there are no recorded deaths in Australia from red bellied blacks.

buffy said:

And according to the man at Healesville sanctuary a couple of years ago, there are no recorded deaths in Australia from red bellied blacks.

Though its venom ranks at about the same as the diamond back rattlesnake.. ie: about 15th on the list of the most venomous snakes. So I wouldn’t prompt one to strike.

buffy said:

And according to the man at Healesville sanctuary a couple of years ago, there are no recorded deaths in Australia from red bellied blacks.

(y)

37C here but 32.?C apparently… northwesterly blowing at 10 knots… so yes it’s warm and the birds are heavily utilising the sprinkler…chooks are digging their way to China…

Dinetta said:

37C here but 32.?C apparently… northwesterly blowing at 10 knots… so yes it’s warm and the birds are heavily utilising the sprinkler…chooks are digging their way to China…

Your thermometer is catching the hot winds. The official temp is read differently. However, it is what you and the chooks are standing in.

roughbarked said:

Dinetta said:

37C here but 32.?C apparently… northwesterly blowing at 10 knots… so yes it’s warm and the birds are heavily utilising the sprinkler…chooks are digging their way to China…

Your thermometer is catching the hot winds. The official temp is read differently. However, it is what you and the chooks are standing in.

I’m sorry, I should have said the temp at the aerodrome, where the weather station is situated…I am generally cooler where I am…haven’t checked the house thermometer which has been placed to measure the coolness under the house…

The lorikeets were looking wistfully at me when I got home about midday, so I filled up the tub-with-a-rock that is in the shady part of the tankstand and they were most grateful…

Arvo. It’s time for a big mug of tea. And band aids and betadine for a deep scratch on my arm. Again. I’ve planted out pots of things and put some lettuce and kale seedlings into the AP bed, staked each corner of the bed with some bamboo sticks, put string around it and bird netting over. Those rotten chooks wont get my lettuces again. Then I watered everything, tended the worm farms and drew off worm wee. The man lifted off hanging pots and I tipped their contents out. next to go in them is marigolds and lobelia.
The patio clean up continues and the rubbish, recycling and green bins are full.

No ones claimed the brown leghorn hen. I got her out of the quarantine pen and clipped her wing and let her mingle with the others. All is good. She fair raided the barley grass bed.

Happy Potter said:

No ones claimed the brown leghorn hen. I got her out of the quarantine pen and clipped her wing and let her mingle with the others. All is good. She fair raided the barley grass bed.

Maybe she is far far from home and the owners can’t think where she could be…but she’s obviously met her match where she is…mustn’t have much of a green pick the last few days / weeks?

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

No ones claimed the brown leghorn hen. I got her out of the quarantine pen and clipped her wing and let her mingle with the others. All is good. She fair raided the barley grass bed.

Maybe she is far far from home and the owners can’t think where she could be…but she’s obviously met her match where she is…mustn’t have much of a green pick the last few days / weeks?

I was taking her handfuls of green pick daily. It’s better when they pick it themselves though. Once they have trodden on it and it’s dirty they won’t eat it.

Happy Potter said:

I was taking her handfuls of green pick daily. It’s better when they pick it themselves though. Once they have trodden on it and it’s dirty they won’t eat it.

Mine should be so fussy…

The bush picnic races are alive and well…there was a huge crowd today which is normally a quiet “locals” day…

Took the dog’s bed downstairs as it’s too hot on the verandah after 16:00 hrs, and left the chookens with lots of damp places in the deep shade, plus half a sugar cabbage to pass the time…they are not “into” their grain at the moment…too hot I think…

Dinetta said:

The bush picnic races are alive and well…there was a huge crowd today which is normally a quiet “locals” day…

Took the dog’s bed downstairs as it’s too hot on the verandah after 16:00 hrs, and left the chookens with lots of damp places in the deep shade, plus half a sugar cabbage to pass the time…they are not “into” their grain at the moment…too hot I think…

Yeah grain warms them up particularly corn and oats. They love frozen watermelon halves on hot days.

Visitors today. Young family picking up pullets and doing a garden walk. I better sweep the floors. They look like I’ve been baling hay indoors, lol.

Also going to take the seedling trays out of the currently chook free big chicken coop, then reinsert the older leghorn chooks. While they can fly, they aren’t, but there’s a couple that prefer to roost in trees at night and I’m forever summoning taller significant others to go grab them out and put them back in the silkies coop. The bigger pen is netted. Silkies can’t fly.

Good morning Gardeners. It’s about 9 degrees here at the moment, and sunny. I’ve pulled a few (how does it always seem to be a big pile?) weeds as I went to let the chooks into their long run. Heading over to Casterton shortly. I have acquired bags of sheep poo from under a shearing shed. So the fruit trees will be getting a feed. Mostly in blossom now, so they won’t mind that at all.

buffy said:

… I have acquired bags of sheep poo from under a shearing shed.

Jelly!!

yesterday morning I was able to positively identify my snake as a red bellied black. He tried to go through a hole too small in the compost panels and got stuck half way, so had to twist his way back out again and showed his belly.

Then I had more stuff to add to the compost in the afternoon so decided to turn it into the next bay. Dumped the second forkful and he slithered out of it! He was just under the top layer! All turned now. Will be interesting to see if he comes back or has decided it was too unsettling.

He’s lucky you didn’t spear him!!!!!!!!

Dinetta said:

He’s lucky you didn’t spear him!!!!!!!!

I don’t think there was any danger of that. I was just sliding the fork under the compost and lifting it, not trying to force the fork down or anything. Gave both of us a bit of a shock though :)

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

He’s lucky you didn’t spear him!!!!!!!!

I don’t think there was any danger of that. I was just sliding the fork under the compost and lifting it, not trying to force the fork down or anything. Gave both of us a bit of a shock though :)

There’s plenty of room between the fork tines for a snake. I’ve had one come up out of the compost wrapped around and between the tines and show no apparent harm. It is most likely a she, the females love compost heaps.

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

He’s lucky you didn’t spear him!!!!!!!!

I don’t think there was any danger of that. I was just sliding the fork under the compost and lifting it, not trying to force the fork down or anything. Gave both of us a bit of a shock though :)

Ah OK…so that’s how the compost is turned…hopefully I’ll be doing that myself later today…

roughbarked said:

There’s plenty of room between the fork tines for a snake. I’ve had one come up out of the compost wrapped around and between the tines and show no apparent harm.

Sweet!

Storm to the southwest, looks a smallie but goodie…going to slip around the west of here, heading north…hope somebody benefits…

Seeing the Happy Birthday posts made me realise that there seems to be a lot of the old regulars from this forum missing in action, as I have been for the last couple of years, eg bon008, Longy. Wonder what they are all up to these days?

Hello again Gardeners. Sorry Anne, I can’t help with that plant. I’ve been to Casterton, come back, been for a coffee. My fruit trees over there got a very low mow around the trunks, a spray of glyphosate over the mowed area, sheep poo, and then some grass clippings on top. The orchard actually looks relatively tidy at the moment:

The pear tree is in full blossom and the apples are starting. The stone fruit are petal dropping. I haven’t checked for fruit set yet, but there are bees around so we should get something. The orange tree smells divine with magnificent blossom. Well worth growing. I’m still able to pick a dozen or so oranges periodically from the last crop. Small, but nice

Dinetta said:

bluegreen said:

Dinetta said:

He’s lucky you didn’t spear him!!!!!!!!

I don’t think there was any danger of that. I was just sliding the fork under the compost and lifting it, not trying to force the fork down or anything. Gave both of us a bit of a shock though :)

Ah OK…so that’s how the compost is turned…hopefully I’ll be doing that myself later today…

I have a two bay system so when I get around to turning it I move the compost from one bay to the other. Don’t have to delve deep into a bin to try and lift and turn it. When I had a bin type it could lift off, so I could move it next to the pile and then fork the compost back in.

buffy said:

Hello again Gardeners. Sorry Anne, I can’t help with that plant. I’ve been to Casterton, come back, been for a coffee. My fruit trees over there got a very low mow around the trunks, a spray of glyphosate over the mowed area, sheep poo, and then some grass clippings on top. The orchard actually looks relatively tidy at the moment:

The pear tree is in full blossom and the apples are starting. The stone fruit are petal dropping. I haven’t checked for fruit set yet, but there are bees around so we should get something. The orange tree smells divine with magnificent blossom. Well worth growing. I’m still able to pick a dozen or so oranges periodically from the last crop. Small, but nice

looks good. No need to use glyphosate if you cover with mulch. You need to let the sun in for it to work properly. It works by forcing the plant to grow quicker than it can take up nutrients so starves itself in the process. If you cover with mulch then the growth doesn’t happen.

>>No need to use glyphosate if you cover with mulch<<

I disagree (ref: 30 years of gardening)…just mulching means the grass still grows. I have found, despite what they say on the container, that as long as the glyphosate dries on the leaves, it will work. So I mow, spray, and then go about putting out the manure and then mow the rest of the area with the catcher and use that to mulch over the manure. I should point out that there is stolon type grasses, not just annuals.

buffy said:

>>No need to use glyphosate if you cover with mulch<<

I disagree (ref: 30 years of gardening)…just mulching means the grass still grows. I have found, despite what they say on the container, that as long as the glyphosate dries on the leaves, it will work. So I mow, spray, and then go about putting out the manure and then mow the rest of the area with the catcher and use that to mulch over the manure. I should point out that there is stolon type grasses, not just annuals.

If it works then fair enough. Mulch on its own would need to have a total blocking effect so that the grass can’t grow through again.

I would prefer to not use the glyphosate, and I’ve tried it. But it doesn’t work.

:)

bluegreen said:

I have a two bay system so when I get around to turning it I move the compost from one bay to the other. Don’t have to delve deep into a bin to try and lift and turn it. When I had a bin type it could lift off, so I could move it next to the pile and then fork the compost back in.

I’d like to start a bay system, 3 bay would be the way to go with chooken manure I reckon…plus the shredded newspaper that’s collecting it under the roosts…what I did last time was remove the bin, knock it on it’s side, then throw the compost in…If the current lot is not too hot (it’s been there 4 weeks now I think), then I’ll put it on the garden tonight, well watered, and throw in the next lot of droppings/newspapers tomorrow morning…

AnneS said:

Seeing the Happy Birthday posts made me realise that there seems to be a lot of the old regulars from this forum missing in action, as I have been for the last couple of years, eg bon008, Longy. Wonder what they are all up to these days?

I think Bon008 had reached the Starting a Family phase in her life’s plans…she just dropped off one Christmas and that was it…Longy kind of drifted away after he started those big jobs in the wilds of PNG, but PainMaster catches up with him at times as PM is now back in PNG…

Storms (with rain in ‘em) are swirling around but none have our location as their destination…however the temperature drop is most welcome…I have two blankets, freshly “mothballed” (some mix of lux flakes, metho and eucalyptus oil) drying on the line, not sure if this is sufficient temptation for any rain cells?

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

Seeing the Happy Birthday posts made me realise that there seems to be a lot of the old regulars from this forum missing in action, as I have been for the last couple of years, eg bon008, Longy. Wonder what they are all up to these days?

I think Bon008 had reached the Starting a Family phase in her life’s plans…she just dropped off one Christmas and that was it…Longy kind of drifted away after he started those big jobs in the wilds of PNG, but PainMaster catches up with him at times as PM is now back in PNG…

Thanks Dinetta. I see PM’s stuff on Facebook (even though I still haven’t quite worked out what he really does up in PNG), but thanks for the update on the others :)

Who knows they might all come back….I did!

I have been outside in the garden but its starting to get too hot for me, 27.4 degrees. Yes I know I’m a wuss. I have been enjoying gardening over the last few weeks while the weather has been mild. Just have to hope that I can keep motivated to work when its warmer or all my earlier efforts will have been in vain.

Planted out and mulched broccoli and cabbage this morning

Gosh Anne, I start to flag above 17 degrees. But I suppose that’s because I don’t do ladylike gardening….heavy weeding, digging, mowing, carting around bags of manure, bales of straw. It’s not very genteel, is it! It’s just starting to spit rain here now, so I think I’ll ‘retire’ to the bedroom with some ophthalmological journals and a couple of dogs for a read. After I hang out a load of washing for a Nature Rinse in the rain. And have a shower. I wonder should I do some ironing first too…

:)

buffy said:

Gosh Anne, I start to flag above 17 degrees. But I suppose that’s because I don’t do ladylike gardening….heavy weeding, digging, mowing, carting around bags of manure, bales of straw. It’s not very genteel, is it! It’s just starting to spit rain here now, so I think I’ll ‘retire’ to the bedroom with some ophthalmological journals and a couple of dogs for a read. After I hang out a load of washing for a Nature Rinse in the rain. And have a shower. I wonder should I do some ironing first too…

:)

Ironing? What’s that? LOL.

Because I am so overweight, dodgy back, dodgy knees, feet and you name it, it doesn’t take long for me to be either overheating or complaining of pain (I admit I have a low pain threshold). Lugging the bale of mulch around was a challenge (my trolley has been seconded for other duty).

Actually my podiatrist wants me to ask GP for a referral to rheumatologist. He thinks I should be investigated for fibromyalgia, polymyalgia rheumatica or lupus. I don’t think lupus is likely, but the others are certainly a possibility. Can’t in to see my GP for a week or so, but will have a chat to him about it.

AnneS said:

Because I am so overweight, dodgy back, dodgy knees, feet and you name it, it doesn’t take long for me to be either overheating or complaining of pain (I admit I have a low pain threshold). Lugging the bale of mulch around was a challenge (my trolley has been seconded for other duty).

Actually my podiatrist wants me to ask GP for a referral to rheumatologist. He thinks I should be investigated for fibromyalgia, polymyalgia rheumatica or lupus. I don’t think lupus is likely, but the others are certainly a possibility. Can’t in to see my GP for a week or so, but will have a chat to him about it.

Isn’t fibromyalgia painful whether you’re overweight or not?

Dinetta said:

AnneS said:

Because I am so overweight, dodgy back, dodgy knees, feet and you name it, it doesn’t take long for me to be either overheating or complaining of pain (I admit I have a low pain threshold). Lugging the bale of mulch around was a challenge (my trolley has been seconded for other duty).

Actually my podiatrist wants me to ask GP for a referral to rheumatologist. He thinks I should be investigated for fibromyalgia, polymyalgia rheumatica or lupus. I don’t think lupus is likely, but the others are certainly a possibility. Can’t in to see my GP for a week or so, but will have a chat to him about it.

Isn’t fibromyalgia painful whether you’re overweight or not?

Supposedly….so here’s hoping it ‘s not fibromyalgia. The symptoms I have a more like the polymyalgia rheumatica but without the dramatic weight loss and difficulty sleeping. I’ll keep on with attempting to lose weight though because the alternative that my GP proposed a few months ago (ie gastric sleeve surgery) is not my preferred path. Have lost 8:3kg since beginning of July so just gotta keep on keeping on :)

Having said that I think I must have sweated off a few grams while I was just outside mulching potatoes and pumpkins!!!

AnneS said:

I have been outside in the garden but its starting to get too hot for me, 27.4 degrees. Yes I know I’m a wuss. I have been enjoying gardening over the last few weeks while the weather has been mild. Just have to hope that I can keep motivated to work when its warmer or all my earlier efforts will have been in vain.

Planted out and mulched broccoli and cabbage this morning

that would be too hot for me too AnneS.

Morning all. We’re still here.
The wind overnight was horrible. Wind speeds of 80 plus and gusts of 115 kph saw us staying up and checking things outside when we heard banging or crashing noises. I had instant heat packs ready to activate for the brooder chicks had the power gone off. The girl came inside to sleep on a mattress on the floor. The electricity wires were rocking. That was scary.

Earlier about 9 pm the man was coming home from arvo shift and said he saw a high van topple over, then nearer home, a light removalist’s truck tipped over.

Another couple days of this, apparently. Great..

Wind gusts were recorded at 144kmh at the Fawkner Beacon which is 10k’s into Port Phillip bay.

Happy Potter said:

Morning all. We’re still here.
The wind overnight was horrible. Wind speeds of 80 plus and gusts of 115 kph saw us staying up and checking things outside when we heard banging or crashing noises. I had instant heat packs ready to activate for the brooder chicks had the power gone off. The girl came inside to sleep on a mattress on the floor. The electricity wires were rocking. That was scary.

Earlier about 9 pm the man was coming home from arvo shift and said he saw a high van topple over, then nearer home, a light removalist’s truck tipped over.

Another couple days of this, apparently. Great..

Oh dear, that’s very strong winds indeed…and the gusts would only have to catch something off balance or at the wrong angle and hello Insurance Company…

Happy Potter said:

Wind gusts were recorded at 144kmh at the Fawkner Beacon which is 10k’s into Port Phillip bay.

Wouldn’t that be cyclonic speed?

Happy Potter said:

Wind gusts were recorded at 144kmh at the Fawkner Beacon which is 10k’s into Port Phillip bay.

The ABC News online report is here

Dinetta said:

Happy Potter said:

Wind gusts were recorded at 144kmh at the Fawkner Beacon which is 10k’s into Port Phillip bay.

Wouldn’t that be cyclonic speed?

If there’s been a cyclone up north then southern states can get strong tail winds, but this lot came out of the blue, so to speak. The elderly neighbor just called me over to the fence.. his shed panels are peeled back like a banana. His son is going to come over to see to it. Hubby and orchard mate are here today, we’re off to do some ‘trailer’ stuff, but they’ll help the neighbor if needed.

No damage at my place, just a lot of almonds blew off the tree.

Happy Potter said:

Morning all. We’re still here.
The wind overnight was horrible. Wind speeds of 80 plus and gusts of 115 kph saw us staying up and checking things outside when we heard banging or crashing noises. I had instant heat packs ready to activate for the brooder chicks had the power gone off. The girl came inside to sleep on a mattress on the floor. The electricity wires were rocking. That was scary.

Earlier about 9 pm the man was coming home from arvo shift and said he saw a high van topple over, then nearer home, a light removalist’s truck tipped over.

Another couple days of this, apparently. Great..

scarey stuff!

Happy Potter said:

Morning all. We’re still here.
The wind overnight was horrible. Wind speeds of 80 plus and gusts of 115 kph saw us staying up and checking things outside when we heard banging or crashing noises. I had instant heat packs ready to activate for the brooder chicks had the power gone off. The girl came inside to sleep on a mattress on the floor. The electricity wires were rocking. That was scary.

Earlier about 9 pm the man was coming home from arvo shift and said he saw a high van topple over, then nearer home, a light removalist’s truck tipped over.

Another couple days of this, apparently. Great..

Winds like that are horrible. Today is a bit windy here (39km gusts) but our forecast isn’t too bad for the next few days wind wise. I hope we will soon be at the end of the windy season, although I am not holding my breath

Happy Potter said:

Wind gusts were recorded at 144kmh at the Fawkner Beacon which is 10k’s into Port Phillip bay.

Far out!

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning all. We’re still here.
The wind overnight was horrible. Wind speeds of 80 plus and gusts of 115 kph saw us staying up and checking things outside when we heard banging or crashing noises. I had instant heat packs ready to activate for the brooder chicks had the power gone off. The girl came inside to sleep on a mattress on the floor. The electricity wires were rocking. That was scary.

Earlier about 9 pm the man was coming home from arvo shift and said he saw a high van topple over, then nearer home, a light removalist’s truck tipped over.

Another couple days of this, apparently. Great..

Winds like that are horrible. Today is a bit windy here (39km gusts) but our forecast isn’t too bad for the next few days wind wise. I hope we will soon be at the end of the windy season, although I am not holding my breath

Let me correct that…now more than a bit windy :(
Winds WNW 44kph wind gusts 59km

Have been outside trying to wet down the mulch but the little tank is empty so had to use water from our main tank which we try not to use for the garden (for obvious reasons…need it for drinking etc). Will pump up from the dam once the wind eases a bit

AnneS said:

AnneS said:

Happy Potter said:

Morning all. We’re still here.
The wind overnight was horrible. Wind speeds of 80 plus and gusts of 115 kph saw us staying up and checking things outside when we heard banging or crashing noises. I had instant heat packs ready to activate for the brooder chicks had the power gone off. The girl came inside to sleep on a mattress on the floor. The electricity wires were rocking. That was scary.

Earlier about 9 pm the man was coming home from arvo shift and said he saw a high van topple over, then nearer home, a light removalist’s truck tipped over.

Another couple days of this, apparently. Great..

Winds like that are horrible. Today is a bit windy here (39km gusts) but our forecast isn’t too bad for the next few days wind wise. I hope we will soon be at the end of the windy season, although I am not holding my breath

Let me correct that…now more than a bit windy :(
Winds WNW 44kph wind gusts 59km

Have been outside trying to wet down the mulch but the little tank is empty so had to use water from our main tank which we try not to use for the garden (for obvious reasons…need it for drinking etc). Will pump up from the dam once the wind eases a bit

Just checked Weatherzone. Winds now NW 51kph, wind gusts 94km. Yuk. Crap flying around :( Temperature dropped to 24.9 for a while but I think it is climbing again. God I hate wind!

AnneS said:

AnneS said:

AnneS said:

Winds like that are horrible. Today is a bit windy here (39km gusts) but our forecast isn’t too bad for the next few days wind wise. I hope we will soon be at the end of the windy season, although I am not holding my breath

Let me correct that…now more than a bit windy :(
Winds WNW 44kph wind gusts 59km

Have been outside trying to wet down the mulch but the little tank is empty so had to use water from our main tank which we try not to use for the garden (for obvious reasons…need it for drinking etc). Will pump up from the dam once the wind eases a bit

Just checked Weatherzone. Winds now NW 51kph, wind gusts 94km. Yuk. Crap flying around :( Temperature dropped to 24.9 for a while but I think it is climbing again. God I hate wind!

It is perhaps unfortunate that wind is the requirement to bring us changes in weather but that is simply the way it is.