Just thought I’d start somewhere to report plantings and such. I’ve just popped in some snow pea seeds, spread out some brown onions and spring onions which have been overwintering, and done a trial planting of climbing beans. Probably too early for those, but worth a try. And there were some potatoes sprouting in the pantry, so they’ve gone in too. I’m planning to put some tomato seed in the ground with a milk container around them and use them as my signal seeds for when to sow the main tomato seeds.

I also planted out some broccoli today. Quite a few more of those seedlings, but they are for Casterton and that bed needs a quick weed and turn before putting them in. Still got some time for them though.

Had a guided tour behind the scenes at Floriade today and also the National Botanic Gardens. Sooo cool. I like to think the lady who showed us around the Nursery area of the Bot Gardens may have been Roughy’s daughter, I think I recall her working there… so knowledgable with a sweet personality. In fact all the crew we met today were very cool. There’s something nice just hanging out in Spring weather with gardeners who are passionate about their work.

painmaster said:

Had a guided tour behind the scenes at Floriade today and also the National Botanic Gardens. Sooo cool. I like to think the lady who showed us around the Nursery area of the Bot Gardens may have been Roughy’s daughter, I think I recall her working there… so knowledgable with a sweet personality. In fact all the crew we met today were very cool. There’s something nice just hanging out in Spring weather with gardeners who are passionate about their work.

:) She does work there. Yes. She is knowledgable with a sweet personality. Also a no-nonsense person who will tell you if it is such.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

Had a guided tour behind the scenes at Floriade today and also the National Botanic Gardens. Sooo cool. I like to think the lady who showed us around the Nursery area of the Bot Gardens may have been Roughy’s daughter, I think I recall her working there… so knowledgable with a sweet personality. In fact all the crew we met today were very cool. There’s something nice just hanging out in Spring weather with gardeners who are passionate about their work.

:) She does work there. Yes. She is knowledgable with a sweet personality. Also a no-nonsense person who will tell you if it is such.

cool :)

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

Had a guided tour behind the scenes at Floriade today and also the National Botanic Gardens. Sooo cool. I like to think the lady who showed us around the Nursery area of the Bot Gardens may have been Roughy’s daughter, I think I recall her working there… so knowledgable with a sweet personality. In fact all the crew we met today were very cool. There’s something nice just hanging out in Spring weather with gardeners who are passionate about their work.

:) She does work there. Yes. She is knowledgable with a sweet personality. Also a no-nonsense person who will tell you if it is such.

:D

>>There’s something nice just hanging out in Spring weather with gardeners who are passionate about their work.

Plant loving people are the nicest people!

;)

I have been mowing and tidying and raking and cutting in Casterton. Going back again tomorrow to do some more. I ran the mower out of petrol and completely forgot I had a 20l container in the shed. I checked my small 5l container…..will have to refill that tomorrow from the big one. The grass is rather longer than I’d like, but it hasn’t been mowed for 3-4 weeks. I think I’ll make the effort to got this weekend and again next weekend to get it to mulch mower height and then it will have to be fortnightly for the growing season, I guess.

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

Had a guided tour behind the scenes at Floriade today and also the National Botanic Gardens. Sooo cool. I like to think the lady who showed us around the Nursery area of the Bot Gardens may have been Roughy’s daughter, I think I recall her working there… so knowledgable with a sweet personality. In fact all the crew we met today were very cool. There’s something nice just hanging out in Spring weather with gardeners who are passionate about their work.

:) She does work there. Yes. She is knowledgable with a sweet personality. Also a no-nonsense person who will tell you if it is such.

I like to think that maybe I had a chat with Roughy’s daughter… it wasn’t just the potential daughter of Roughbarked who was ever so clever and ever so nice, all the staff that had the privilege of showing off their garden to me and my band of reprobates were fantastic. Xmas Parties there would be amazeballs!

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

Had a guided tour behind the scenes at Floriade today and also the National Botanic Gardens. Sooo cool. I like to think the lady who showed us around the Nursery area of the Bot Gardens may have been Roughy’s daughter, I think I recall her working there… so knowledgable with a sweet personality. In fact all the crew we met today were very cool. There’s something nice just hanging out in Spring weather with gardeners who are passionate about their work.

:) She does work there. Yes. She is knowledgable with a sweet personality. Also a no-nonsense person who will tell you if it is such.

I like to think that maybe I had a chat with Roughy’s daughter… it wasn’t just the potential daughter of Roughbarked who was ever so clever and ever so nice, all the staff that had the privilege of showing off their garden to me and my band of reprobates were fantastic. Xmas Parties there would be amazeballs!

i posted twice? Sorry ‘bout that.

painmaster said:

i posted twice? Sorry ‘bout that.

no worries You said you had reprobates in tow? So it was an educational tour?

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

i posted twice? Sorry ‘bout that.

no worries You said you had reprobates in tow? So it was an educational tour?

very edumacational. We all loved it.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

i posted twice? Sorry ‘bout that.

no worries You said you had reprobates in tow? So it was an educational tour?

very edumacational. We all loved it.

Cool. Then it would be her department. The only problem being is that she was here this week and though she has gone back, I think she’s still on a week’s break. So it is most likely that you were shown around by others in her department. ;)

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

no worries You said you had reprobates in tow? So it was an educational tour?

very edumacational. We all loved it.

Cool. Then it would be her department. The only problem being is that she was here this week and though she has gone back, I think she’s still on a week’s break. So it is most likely that you were shown around by others in her department. ;)

Bugger. The sweet staffer who showed us around had a sweet surname. But I guess we missed out on the company of your daughter. C’est la vie, maybe next time.

painmaster said:

roughbarked said:

painmaster said:

very edumacational. We all loved it.

Cool. Then it would be her department. The only problem being is that she was here this week and though she has gone back, I think she’s still on a week’s break. So it is most likely that you were shown around by others in her department. ;)

Bugger. The sweet staffer who showed us around had a sweet surname. But I guess we missed out on the company of your daughter. C’est la vie, maybe next time.

Appears so. It also appears that you were well treated. :)

So, I’ve been gardening. I have to go and mow some grass because I reckon it might rain before too much longer.

I’ve prepared along the wire fence ready to pop some pea seed in shortly. And planned out where the tomatoes will go…gotta make sure the rotations are right, and I run haphazard veggie beds so I have to draw plans an stuff. I’ve moved on from straight line growing to messy mixed up growing. It works, but you do need to make sure you don’t put tomatoes where they were last year, or where the potatoes have been recently. I dug in woodash from the fire, scrunched up egg shells and paper shreds and chook poo too. Should be nice when I get to plant out tomatoes in a couple of months.

And this week I turned some very old compost and it was good. So now it has been topdressed and dug into my veggie beds. Or some of them. Not quite sure how digging it over turned into weeding, shifting it and digging it in. But it is done now. Quiet time sorting out which tomato seeds to put in now.

Oh dear. Sorted my tomato seeds. I have 14 varieties. I have matched them up so I can plant them two together and still know which is which. I’ll be going for Brandy Wine+Amish Paste, Ananas Noir+Mortgage Lifter, Brown Berry+Grosse Lisse, Black Krim+Rouge de Marmande, Tommy Toe+Sweetie, Periforme+Black Cherry and Tigerella+Principe Borghese.

I wonder how many will make it to production this year.

:)

buffy said:

Oh dear. Sorted my tomato seeds. I have 14 varieties. I have matched them up so I can plant them two together and still know which is which. I’ll be going for Brandy Wine+Amish Paste, Ananas Noir+Mortgage Lifter, Brown Berry+Grosse Lisse, Black Krim+Rouge de Marmande, Tommy Toe+Sweetie, Periforme+Black Cherry and Tigerella+Principe Borghese.

I wonder how many will make it to production this year.

:)

That’s quite a swag. I have Rouge de Marmande (it is the standard I judge others by) and Black Krim, Patio Prize and Sweet Bite. All flowering with tiny tomatoes. The third batch of seed is coming up now.

In dire need of a “fix” of Pepe’s spring garden photos…

Dinetta said:

In dire need of a “fix” of Pepe’s spring garden photos…

the cape weed daisies are looking rather spectacular in mine….

My pawpaw tree has green boobies!!

Such a shock… I was saying to P, was checking the height of the pawpaw tree and there they were!

Don’t know how the sulphur crests missed them in the last prune…

P is interested but I don’t like pawpaw…

Also my cherry guava is in bloom, smells divine from a distance and like squashed bugs up close…

I’ve just bagged up all my loquats. Fruit fly.

roughbarked said:

I’ve just bagged up all my loquats. Fruit fly.

:(

Dinetta said:

My pawpaw tree has green boobies!!

Such a shock… I was saying to P, was checking the height of the pawpaw tree and there they were!

Don’t know how the sulphur crests missed them in the last prune…

P is interested but I don’t like pawpaw…

Also my cherry guava is in bloom, smells divine from a distance and like squashed bugs up close…

Ooooh, eat the pawpaws!