It’s March!
It’s been a 50 band- aid day, but it was great! I have picked five and a half kilos of limes! Woohoo :D I’m going to zest and juice the lot and make some bottles of cordial and jars of lime curd.
And I’ve finally removed the mystery melon. That was a bigger job than I thought it’d be. Far out, the pile was taller then me! It really stunk too, which may explain why the chooks wouldn’t eat it. It was healthy too as it was swiping the available nutrients for the lemon, which has suffered a bit, but will come good.
I’m going to borrow a friend and her whipper snipper with it’s mini chainsaw attachment to prune the huge almond. I’m not going to touch the machine. I already look like I’ve been through a massacre.
Happy Potter said:
It’s March!
so it is! lol!
and it is Autumn! Goodbye Summer and good riddance!
bluegreen said:
Happy Potter said:
It’s March!so it is! lol!
and it is Autumn! Goodbye Summer and good riddance!
I reckon. I complained about the cold.. so got a killer heatwave. I won’t do that again I promise! lol
Hello Gardeners. I spent the night at Casterton and got out early this morning with tidying up type stuff. Then got on with mowing from 9.00am. As the Summer veggies over there were pretty much a dead loss – I’m not there to water them and it hasn’t rained for ages – I am now planning for the Winter ones. I’ve got seeds germinating here for the cabbagey stuff, and some onions. I’m thinking to try again (try number 6 or 7, I think) with an avocado tree. So I’ll plant a couple of rows of broad beans, as soon as the weather breaks, and then I’ll have a sheltered spot to put a baby tree. I can hope the broad beans stop the frost killing it. And then I might leave the dead broadbean plants in place for Summer protection. I’ve lost trees mostly to frost, but the couple I got past the frosts died from early 40 degree days. And if I am planting broadbeans in that spot, I’ll whack in a couple of rows of King Edward potatoes near them too. Apparently they like each other.
The Simpsons are doing Dr Suess now on Ch 10!
bluegreen said:
The Simpsons are doing Dr Suess now on Ch 10!
Morning green ones. It’s cool but great weather for planting. More celery went in, and beets and lettuces. And I picked more limes. They can hide well, all being green!
I wondered what to do with all those peels, the ones I’m not zesting, and came across this in my search.
http://www.lahealthyliving.com/1/post/2014/02/better-than-any-store-bought-homemade-vitamin-c.html
It makes sense, but is it true?, and what about the other citrus? It only mentions orange peel. I will keep the peels and dry them.
Happy Potter said:
Morning green ones. It’s cool but great weather for planting. More celery went in, and beets and lettuces. And I picked more limes. They can hide well, all being green!
I wondered what to do with all those peels, the ones I’m not zesting, and came across this in my search.http://www.lahealthyliving.com/1/post/2014/02/better-than-any-store-bought-homemade-vitamin-c.html
It makes sense, but is it true?, and what about the other citrus? It only mentions orange peel. I will keep the peels and dry them.
You can add mandarin peel. Most assuredly. The Chinese had a tradition of always eating some of the peel with the fruit. Lemon and lime zests are well known. The pith of the grapefruit may be consumed at will but of the peel I have no proof other than that it may be included in marmalades.
Happy Potter said:
Morning green ones. It’s cool but great weather for planting. More celery went in, and beets and lettuces. And I picked more limes. They can hide well, all being green!
I wondered what to do with all those peels, the ones I’m not zesting, and came across this in my search.http://www.lahealthyliving.com/1/post/2014/02/better-than-any-store-bought-homemade-vitamin-c.html
It makes sense, but is it true?, and what about the other citrus? It only mentions orange peel. I will keep the peels and dry them.
I’m thinking candied peel to put in or on cakes etc.
Freeze excess zest in ice cube containers with a little of the juice.
“Most commercial vitamin C supplements do not contain natural vitamin C. It’s often made from ascorbic acid which is a synthetic chemical derived from glucose. “
From that Vitamin C link. I’d just like to point out that the chemical is, in the end, the same, regardless of whether a plant or animal made it, or a chemical reaction made it. The actual chemical is identical. Or it would not be called ascorbic acid, which is a very specific chemical description.
buffy said:
Yes but.. Ascorbic acid is not the only ingredient in oranges or their peel.“Most commercial vitamin C supplements do not contain natural vitamin C. It’s often made from ascorbic acid which is a synthetic chemical derived from glucose. “
From that Vitamin C link. I’d just like to point out that the chemical is, in the end, the same, regardless of whether a plant or animal made it, or a chemical reaction made it. The actual chemical is identical. Or it would not be called ascorbic acid, which is a very specific chemical description.
Note that apart from the claims about what is in oranges.. these claims are also made about the peels:
Orange peel improves digestion. It helps to releive gas, heartburn, vomiting and acidic eructation.
Orange peel helps with the respiratory system; it helps eliminate cough and even can improve asthma.
Orange peels have anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties. Essential oil, d-limonene, contained in orange peels has ability to promote normal liver function.
Whether they are all true or not is up to the reader to check.
>>Yes but.. Ascorbic acid is not the only ingredient in oranges or their peel.<<
No, but the sentence I quoted was not talking about the peel. It was talking about the ascorbic acid.
buffy said:
>>Yes but.. Ascorbic acid is not the only ingredient in oranges or their peel.<<
No, but the sentence I quoted was not talking about the peel. It was talking about the ascorbic acid.
That was clear enough. Yes.
Well one thing I know is I won’t be wasting the citrus peels anymore.
Blood donation day, so I’m filling up on fluids and a hearty brekky. Toast with lime curd, yum!
Happy Potter said:
Well one thing I know is I won’t be wasting the citrus peels anymore.
Once dried, they make the best fire starters.
roughbarked said:
Happy Potter said:
Well one thing I know is I won’t be wasting the citrus peels anymore.Once dried, they make the best fire starters.
Oh they smell delicious when thrown into the fire, dried…
Arvo all. I didn’t quite make it to here in the am. I’m raiding worm farms again for a kinda’s two new farms. It’s a yukky job, but better than the mans yukky job.. cleaning out the fridge crisper. Ew, lol.
Got a job interview on Thursday!
bluegreen said:
Got a job interview on Thursday!
GoodO.. Remember, be confident in yourself.
bluegreen said:
Got a job interview on Thursday!
Cool :) What doing?
Happy Potter said:
bluegreen said:
Got a job interview on Thursday!
Cool :) What doing?
Revenue Assistant at Mansfield Council (part time)
Oh YAY! Hope it goes well…
I am sure to get it! Why? Because when I got my current job my water pump failed. This time I have a leaky roof and my bedroom ceiling has a big hole in it.
Oooh, $$$$$$$
Is the roof leaky or have you got waterpipes going over the ceiling?
I had a “leaky lightbulb” in the bathroom at our original home when we got married: the sparky was most dismissive but came to look at it anyway to prove me wrong, and it turns out the plumber had left a T-junction right beside the light fitting with the bulb, and this pipe was not sealed properly so the light leaked…down with sparky, up with plumber and problem solved…
The sparky has been very interested in our electricity problems ever since, we’ve nearly always got a good story…sadly he has retired…
Dinetta said:
Oooh, $$$$$$$Is the roof leaky or have you got waterpipes going over the ceiling?
I had a “leaky lightbulb” in the bathroom at our original home when we got married: the sparky was most dismissive but came to look at it anyway to prove me wrong, and it turns out the plumber had left a T-junction right beside the light fitting with the bulb, and this pipe was not sealed properly so the light leaked…down with sparky, up with plumber and problem solved…
The sparky has been very interested in our electricity problems ever since, we’ve nearly always got a good story…sadly he has retired…
I was worried that it might have been a leaky roof, although it is metal and not very old. A local fellow came straight over and had a look and plugged up some small holes in the joins then had a look inside the roof cavity. There is a pipe in there that used to run to the original hot water system (which is now located outside) and the pipe is leaking and the damage is a lot more extensive than first appears. Claim put into AAMI and will see if they cough up for it.
bluegreen said:
I was worried that it might have been a leaky roof, although it is metal and not very old. A local fellow came straight over and had a look and plugged up some small holes in the joins then had a look inside the roof cavity. There is a pipe in there that used to run to the original hot water system (which is now located outside) and the pipe is leaking and the damage is a lot more extensive than first appears. Claim put into AAMI and will see if they cough up for it.
That’s unreal…can they take the pipe out or do you have to wait for the AAMI insurance assessor to check for himself?
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:I was worried that it might have been a leaky roof, although it is metal and not very old. A local fellow came straight over and had a look and plugged up some small holes in the joins then had a look inside the roof cavity. There is a pipe in there that used to run to the original hot water system (which is now located outside) and the pipe is leaking and the damage is a lot more extensive than first appears. Claim put into AAMI and will see if they cough up for it.
That’s unreal…can they take the pipe out or do you have to wait for the AAMI insurance assessor to check for himself?
It’s a slow drip that has just built up over time. The fellow said best to put in the claim and see what they say. They may want one of their approved assessors to check it out. So there is a towel and bucket under the hole to catch the drips there and hopefully they will get back to me soon.
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:Claim put into AAMI and will see if they cough up for it.
Oooh, $$$$$$$
Best of British.
Dinetta said:
That’s unreal…can they take the pipe out or do you have to wait for the AAMI insurance assessor to check for himself?
If making an insurance claim.. don’t frig with it.
bluegreen said:
and hopefully they will get back to me soon.
Yeah yeah.. I’m still waiting for the NRMA to pay me for a total loss since Australia Day.
Morning all.
Busy here, just no time to spread myself around online, family, garden watering and harvesting and cooking, vet visits and whatever else I need to do, get called to do, at any given time.
A friend of a friend was selling her house and selling off it’s entire contents to move overseas. But for the furniture and effects she was asking too high prices and in the end nothing got sold. She rang me to ask if hubby could help her move things into the garage so the cleaners could come in and unwanted things to the nature strip for the taking.
In the end she just wanted rid of it all, and got us with the trailer to take items to residential units and needy families I know of. So we were busy for 2 days going back and forth with loads of tallboys, chests, bookshelves, heaps of boxes of kitchen things and electrical items, it seemed unending. I kept a small square but extendable table and chairs – no one else liked it. I was busy washing the kitchen things, some stored for ages in their garage and were really dusty, but the owner put them out for the hard rubbish pick up. Noooo..they’d never been used and were too good for the tip. So I did load after load in the sink and dishwasher. I’m buggered!
I hope that insurance comes good for you BG and fixes that ceiling.
Happy Potter said:
Morning all.
Busy here, just no time to spread myself around online, family, garden watering and harvesting and cooking, vet visits and whatever else I need to do, get called to do, at any given time.A friend of a friend was selling her house and selling off it’s entire contents to move overseas. But for the furniture and effects she was asking too high prices and in the end nothing got sold. She rang me to ask if hubby could help her move things into the garage so the cleaners could come in and unwanted things to the nature strip for the taking.
In the end she just wanted rid of it all, and got us with the trailer to take items to residential units and needy families I know of. So we were busy for 2 days going back and forth with loads of tallboys, chests, bookshelves, heaps of boxes of kitchen things and electrical items, it seemed unending. I kept a small square but extendable table and chairs – no one else liked it. I was busy washing the kitchen things, some stored for ages in their garage and were really dusty, but the owner put them out for the hard rubbish pick up. Noooo..they’d never been used and were too good for the tip. So I did load after load in the sink and dishwasher. I’m buggered!
I hope that insurance comes good for you BG and fixes that ceiling.
A job well done, Happy Potter!
It’s the same story with real estate in my town, people are asking too much but are blaming the “lazy” real estate agents …
Yay, got accepted for the pastry baking course :D details to come in an email, but I start this Monday at the sunshine campus. I will probably be the oldest too. Right, must brush up on my paper plane and pea shooter skills..
Happy Potter said:
Yay, got accepted for the pastry baking course :D details to come in an email, but I start this Monday at the sunshine campus. I will probably be the oldest too. Right, must brush up on my paper plane and pea shooter skills..
Great! Looking forward to stories and pictures of your creations :)
Happy Potter said:
Yay, got accepted for the pastry baking course :D details to come in an email, but I start this Monday at the sunshine campus. I will probably be the oldest too. Right, must brush up on my paper plane and pea shooter skills..
Wooo!
Hahaha! When Sonny Jim was going to TAFE for his sparkie’s ‘prenticship course, if the teacher was really boring the lads (and lasses) would devise impelling instruments …
Morning green ones. I’m attempting jars of marinated eggplants today. Once I get the days normal jobs out of the way.
Around here they call that melanzane.. eggplant that is.
another step?
Bumping the chat! morning. How is everyone?
Where’s Pomolo? I hope all is ok with the Pomolos.
We had a fierce storm yesty that dumped 20 mls of rain in a few minutes. I’m glad I watered the day before, it’s all socked in nicely. My friend nearly lost her large shade sail. I’m glad I don’t have one of those.
We had scheduled a tip trip so we waited until the storm passed. I hate going to the tip now, I see so much waste. I rescued a box of saucepans about to be thrown into the pit by the fellow in the next bay. There was nothing wrong with them and all good quality steel with lids. I passed the pots onto the ladies who collect for the welcome wagon for new arrivals to our shores.
What is the matter with people?
Happy Potter said:
Bumping the chat! morning. How is everyone?Where’s Pomolo? I hope all is ok with the Pomolos.
We had a fierce storm yesty that dumped 20 mls of rain in a few minutes. I’m glad I watered the day before, it’s all socked in nicely. My friend nearly lost her large shade sail. I’m glad I don’t have one of those.
We had scheduled a tip trip so we waited until the storm passed. I hate going to the tip now, I see so much waste. I rescued a box of saucepans about to be thrown into the pit by the fellow in the next bay. There was nothing wrong with them and all good quality steel with lids. I passed the pots onto the ladies who collect for the welcome wagon for new arrivals to our shores.What is the matter with people?
It has always been of concern to me that people have not a care for resources. Though my voice always falls on deaf ears so there seems little point voicing m,y thoughts.
We had 2 mm overnight and the grafting job I was working on the owner wimped out .. I’m footloose all day. If he really wanted it done he could have said start at 10 AM.
Anyway, since I’m footloose it should be the perfect day to start planting peas and broad beans etc.. digging and spreading garlic.. stuff like that.
Happy Potter said:
Bumping the chat! morning. How is everyone?Where’s Pomolo? I hope all is ok with the Pomolos.
We had a fierce storm yesty that dumped 20 mls of rain in a few minutes. I’m glad I watered the day before, it’s all socked in nicely. My friend nearly lost her large shade sail. I’m glad I don’t have one of those.
We had scheduled a tip trip so we waited until the storm passed. I hate going to the tip now, I see so much waste. I rescued a box of saucepans about to be thrown into the pit by the fellow in the next bay. There was nothing wrong with them and all good quality steel with lids. I passed the pots onto the ladies who collect for the welcome wagon for new arrivals to our shores.What is the matter with people?
Rools have taken over commonsense…The Sunday Mail had something going, local (Brisbane) charities said what they were doing and what they needed…I don’t read TSM any more but it was an initiative so people could do things like with those saucepans…give stuff away rather than dump it…
Also, I asked Bubba Louie a couple of weeks ago now, about the Pomolos and they are well, but Pomolo feels like she has nothing to say…oh I used to love her descriptions of her garden and the hanimals in it…
Dinetta said:
Happy Potter said:
Bumping the chat! morning. How is everyone?Where’s Pomolo? I hope all is ok with the Pomolos.
We had a fierce storm yesty that dumped 20 mls of rain in a few minutes. I’m glad I watered the day before, it’s all socked in nicely. My friend nearly lost her large shade sail. I’m glad I don’t have one of those.
We had scheduled a tip trip so we waited until the storm passed. I hate going to the tip now, I see so much waste. I rescued a box of saucepans about to be thrown into the pit by the fellow in the next bay. There was nothing wrong with them and all good quality steel with lids. I passed the pots onto the ladies who collect for the welcome wagon for new arrivals to our shores.What is the matter with people?
Rools have taken over commonsense…The Sunday Mail had something going, local (Brisbane) charities said what they were doing and what they needed…I don’t read TSM any more but it was an initiative so people could do things like with those saucepans…give stuff away rather than dump it…
There would be no problems if all municipalities had a place for dumping stuff that could be used as is, by any other interested party. Yes we have Vinnies everywhere but they are stretched to limits as to what they can handle.
Dinetta said:
Also, I asked Bubba Louie a couple of weeks ago now, about the Pomolos and they are well, but Pomolo feels like she has nothing to say…oh I used to love her descriptions of her garden and the hanimals in it…
THe weather hasn’t been the best for gardeners to talk about.. eg: The worst season for tomatoes I can recall in 60 years.. What’s to brag about?
roughbarked said:
There would be no problems if all municipalities had a place for dumping stuff that could be used as is, by any other interested party. Yes we have Vinnies everywhere but they are stretched to limits as to what they can handle.
Where I was, there was a recycling station and it was always busy…in another town here they started a recycling hut and it’s made $$$$!!
I think, on certain afternoons, we can go and buy pallets and other good bits of wood, at the local dump…still crying over a piano that made it past a “line” …. almost brand new… and was dumped because it was over the “line”…
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Also, I asked Bubba Louie a couple of weeks ago now, about the Pomolos and they are well, but Pomolo feels like she has nothing to say…oh I used to love her descriptions of her garden and the hanimals in it…
THe weather hasn’t been the best for gardeners to talk about.. eg: The worst season for tomatoes I can recall in 60 years.. What’s to brag about?
Not bragging, just describing…
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
Also, I asked Bubba Louie a couple of weeks ago now, about the Pomolos and they are well, but Pomolo feels like she has nothing to say…oh I used to love her descriptions of her garden and the hanimals in it…
THe weather hasn’t been the best for gardeners to talk about.. eg: The worst season for tomatoes I can recall in 60 years.. What’s to brag about?
Not bragging, just describing…
My entire summer gardening was a complete waste of water.. good description?
roughbarked said:
My entire summer gardening was a complete waste of water.. good description?
Yep…
Currently eating lots of small but tasty corn cobs and the rondé zucchini..
Have capsicum and chillies but the beans and tomatoes etc were a waste of water. May still get some beans and tomatoes but not pushing my luck on that.
Sounds delicious anyway, and the zucc looks very healthy..
Hello Gardeners. I haven’t forgotten you lot. Just been doing other things. My tomatoes are set, nothing to pick yet. I’m hopeful of some very late in the season. If we don’t get a frost I may be picking into May. I’ve started picking the rattlesnake climbing beans. They are gorgeous and squeaky when you eat them. Carrots still coming through as thinnings. One day I’ll eat a real sized one!
buffy said:
Hello Gardeners. I haven’t forgotten you lot. Just been doing other things. My tomatoes are set, nothing to pick yet. I’m hopeful of some very late in the season. If we don’t get a frost I may be picking into May. I’ve started picking the rattlesnake climbing beans. They are gorgeous and squeaky when you eat them. Carrots still coming through as thinnings. One day I’ll eat a real sized one!
Sounds good Buffy…I did wonder where you were…
buffy said:
Hello Gardeners. I haven’t forgotten you lot. Just been doing other things. My tomatoes are set, nothing to pick yet. I’m hopeful of some very late in the season. If we don’t get a frost I may be picking into May. I’ve started picking the rattlesnake climbing beans. They are gorgeous and squeaky when you eat them. Carrots still coming through as thinnings. One day I’ll eat a real sized one!
I had tomatoes through the season.. Only a handful at a time. Most of my toms suffered severely from the heat and aridity. I still have tomatoes in but not making fruit.
Got some whippersnipping to do, and the front yard … more whippersnipping to do down the back but that can wait until this afternoon…
J1 and J2 are back, they arrived yesterday with another load of furniture on top of his car…I haven’t been over to catch up but J1 said in a letter that they were happy I had knocked back their long grass…
Good morning Gardeners. I have patients to see today, but tomorrow we will nip over to Casterton to marvel at the new on demand hot water system that has been fitted. It will be very nice to have tank water plumbed into the house, and auto switch to town water if necessary….and hot water again! Without me having to lie on the ground to light the pilot. Then another trip down to the bush block at Digby to admire the New Shed, now it’s finished. That does mean work at some point though. We should take some shovels and do a bit of sand moving, if it’s not too hot.
A lass from down the road at the other house, (other town), is droving on the stock route and it looks like she’s going to visit…so egg-sited! Visiting without the herd and hosses, obviously!
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Arvo all. We’ve pulled the sewing room furniture out and replaced an old return desk with a hutch for a newer wide solid desk. It’s a beauty. It was a freebie too. Even better.
I’ve broken little toe from walking into the mans foot. It’s so black it looks like a little eggplant. It’s his fault as he tends to stand with his huge feet splayed out and he was wearing his big workboots. I trip on his feet often because of this. I yelled at him to keep his feet to himself! Again!
I’ve sold enough unwanted things and saved up for four silver spangled hamburg pol pullets at $25 ea. I’ll go to teesdale to pick them up next week. If I can’t breed females, I’ll buy them. These are from a show breeder but I only want backyard quality. Otherwise they’re $100 each.
Back to the sewing room makeover.
Hello Gardeners. It is lovely and cool today. I’ve done a bit of Buddleia massacring but I need to go into the neighbour’s place to finish it off. We’ll do that this afternoon. I’m pretty sure he won’t want me to just cut the stuff and let it drop into his backyard. Even though it’s a very ‘country’ backyard and he doesn’t use it. It’s at the back of a big shed that was once the local garage in town.
still only 16°C here, expecting 21°C. Had a lovely weekend with my grandbabies visiting. Photos coming.
J1 and J2 have dropped off a load of pallets and timber ends that they don’t want any more…they were going to build the cubby house out of them and I have been drooling over the fence…
So now I am planning my citrus orchard / bantam pen…and vegetable garden…
They said the termites are bad here and had to restump their house with steel stumps (only about 1 metre high at the highest)…so I will be keeping the garden beds down the back fence…
Hello Gardeners. It was a bit warm here this morning….12 degrees at 7.00am. We’ve been to Warrnambool and back. I wanted to order some more of the gloves I garden with from the safety supply business. No-one in Hamilton stocks them and they aren’t too keen on ordering them in for me. The Warrnambool place orders them for me. OK, it costs me over $100 because I have to order 12 pairs at a time. But it’s taken me more than 3 years to wear out a dozen pairs. I like the Ansell Edmont Hylite 47-402 glove. It’s a safety glove, not a gardening glove, but the rose thorns have a lot of trouble getting through the dipping.
And the 2m of beans I have on the fence is in full production. Here is my pick from today:
The big colanders have Rattlesnake (climber) and Purple King. The small colander has Flageolet Flagrano (the seed packet of which I can’t find at the moment) which is meant to be a gourmet bean. But I think you are meant to eat them podded, like broad beans, or dried for soups. They germinated very quickly months ago and are only now making pods. I might keep the rest to bean up and dry out. They are quite beany eaten young like this as a green bean. In front of the colanders are some Blue Lake and one lonely Dragon’s tongue (bush).
I picked this many around 4 days ago too. So now I have to get to blanching and freezing.
While in Warrnambool I went to Spotlight looking for stretch gabardine or similar (something mostly cotton, but with a tiny bit of lycra in it) to make some slacks for work. They did have a roll of black, but I sort of want dark green or khaki or something. Lincraft didn’t have any either. I can now look online because I’ve done the check with the locals.
And we wandered into Bunnings. I think that might be the second time ever I’ve been to a Bunnings shop. I might stay with my local Permewans, small store place. But it was useful for checking out what is available. I did buy a couple of pot hangers….apparently they are known as balcony hangers, but I use them on the fence. We have a wooden frame with corrugated iron, so the hook bits fit nicely and I can hang succulants along the fence.
Time to go top and tail beans.
buffy said:
And the 2m of beans I have on the fence is in full production. Here is my pick from today:
nothing like fresh home grown beans :)
They are squeaky when you eat them.
:)
buffy said:
They are squeaky when you eat them.
:)
Something that just doesn’t happen with shop bought beans. ;)
I had to Log In this morning, only one computer in the house so that’s not it…then it asked me to change the password…so I clicked on View by Time and into this thread…
Sounds like the software was on the turps last night and is still in recovery mode…
Dinetta said:
I had to Log In this morning, only one computer in the house so that’s not it…then it asked me to change the password…so I clicked on View by Time and into this thread…Sounds like the software was on the turps last night and is still in recovery mode…
mostly due to regular cleanups.
I had to log in this morning too. It happens occasionally. Sometimes I think it might be when this computer does a routine housekeeping thing.
I’ve been preparing for Winter veggies. Dug a rather large area this morning at Casterton and my back is complaining. I wish it would shut up! Anyway. Potatoes and seed for carrots, parsnip, parsley, peas, broad beans, marjoram and oregano put in. I cut down the old Brussels sprouts plants to about a foot high and I’ll see if they resprout. I don’t have any seedlings coming on, I’ve had a germination fail. So I’d better start that again. If all the peas grow, I should have enough to freeze some this year, even allowing for the huge quantities of fresh peas we are capable of eating in a sitting. Just adore fresh peas.
Now for a snooze. Going to the pub for tea tonight.
I’ve got 3 cabbage seedlings in! That’s about as much as I’ve been doing in the way of planting. Mainly I’ve been re arranging and sorting pots and plants, moving things and digging others out. Several of the cacti are gone. They were getting a bit large and dangerous. The man bumped his hand against one and we took ages to dig the minuscule spikes out. Then he got a nasty rash on his fingers. The offender went into the green bin.
I have more cucumbers than a green grocer, shared about and even snuck some into bags of lemons to be picked up, but still they grow like mad. The chooks love them so they’ve been feasting on them daily.
Ditto with long yellow capsicums. Bags and bags of them. All credit goes to loads of comfrey tea, and manure tea. Oh, and me watering them with the fortified liquids.
Then I was sorting chook pens and broody cages and moved them around. A couple had come to pick up a bantam with a single chick, and while I picked up the mum hen easily, her chick took off and the three of us spent half an hour trying to catch this darting white fluffball with sweat pouring off us. Great cheers went up when I finally got it! So I lined their yard with smaller 15 mm mesh.
I might be going to fell the now very tall cabbage tree. It’s those fronds dropping that’s driving me mad, not to mention the chooks. The tree is now 6 metres tall. The thin fronds drop daily and they take years to break down. I don’t think there’s a mulcher that can chop them up, they jam everything. The chooks scratch about through them and the fronds become stringy on the ends and it’s like a yard full of strong cotton thread, and chicks and chooks are getting their claws tangled in them. It’s not uncommon to see a hen trying to walk with a big lot of brown metre long strands stuck to it’s legs.
We’re not going to attempt to cut it down, will need a tree lopper. Even if it re sprouts, at least it will be easier to keep it shorter.
Hello Gardeners. This morning has only really got a walk, some mowing, some washing and some sitting in the cafe talking to various people done. I have half prepared some plums for stewing, but I got sidetracked. I really should get back to that job.
I don’t know why it is, but my bumper crop of cherry guavas vanished…one day they were there and suddenly there were none in the tree…or on the ground…I know for a fact that the rainbow lorikeets did not get them…there is some very shrivelled fruit on the tree so I’m wondering if the heat was an issue? I know the watering certainly wasn’t…
Dinetta said:
I don’t know why it is, but my bumper crop of cherry guavas vanished…one day they were there and suddenly there were none in the tree…or on the ground…I know for a fact that the rainbow lorikeets did not get them…there is some very shrivelled fruit on the tree so I’m wondering if the heat was an issue? I know the watering certainly wasn’t…
Blackbirds
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
I don’t know why it is, but my bumper crop of cherry guavas vanished…one day they were there and suddenly there were none in the tree…or on the ground…I know for a fact that the rainbow lorikeets did not get them…there is some very shrivelled fruit on the tree so I’m wondering if the heat was an issue? I know the watering certainly wasn’t…
Blackbirds
Do you mean crows or what is it? corvids?
Dinetta said:
roughbarked said:
Dinetta said:
I don’t know why it is, but my bumper crop of cherry guavas vanished…one day they were there and suddenly there were none in the tree…or on the ground…I know for a fact that the rainbow lorikeets did not get them…there is some very shrivelled fruit on the tree so I’m wondering if the heat was an issue? I know the watering certainly wasn’t…
Blackbirds
Do you mean crows or what is it? corvids?
Yes it could be any number of birds that enjoy fruit.
roughbarked said:
Yes it could be any number of birds that enjoy fruit.
Well they were pretty quiet about it…
Foxes about!
Howdy all. Thought I have been absent from here for to long so thought I would poke my head in the door, even though I am not doing any gardening. I was talking to Happy Potter the other day on Facebook and told her that I would call in to catch up in the next few days.
I am in hospital at present, so might use the down time to try to catch up on some of the LHC
Hope you are well.
Goodness AnneS, hope it’s not serious and Get Well Soon…
My dr has just given the ok for me to go home…waiting for my daughter to get here. Shouldn’t be long now. I have been in hospital for weight loss surgery (different to HP’s) but I had a slight complication with my heart. I have been diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation. What started as a 3 to 5 day stay ended up being 12 hours short of a week
I had to be defibrillated during surgery and then had a slight turn on Sat night when my BP plummeted. But all ok now, just need to go on blood thinning meds at this stage. My BP meds have been changed too.
AnneS said:
My dr has just given the ok for me to go home…waiting for my daughter to get here. Shouldn’t be long now. I have been in hospital for weight loss surgery (different to HP’s) but I had a slight complication with my heart. I have been diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation. What started as a 3 to 5 day stay ended up being 12 hours short of a weekI had to be defibrillated during surgery and then had a slight turn on Sat night when my BP plummeted. But all ok now, just need to go on blood thinning meds at this stage. My BP meds have been changed too.
Oh dear. I hope it all settles down for you. I guess it will all have to be monitored and adjusted as you lose weight too. Look after yourself.
What BlueGreen said.
Dinetta said:
What BlueGreen said.
:|
Getting older isn’t all fun.
My Hotmail just asked to give me a security code, and confirmed my alternate email address by sending the code there. Is this genuine?
Dinetta said:
My Hotmail just asked to give me a security code, and confirmed my alternate email address by sending the code there. Is this genuine?
I don’t use hotmail myself I don’t think they are very secure. Did it ask for alternate address or did it already have it? If it asked then not genuine. My sister had her hotmail hacked today with suspect links being sent to her entire contact list so it could be that hotmail is trying to make accounts more secure, or it could be suspect.
Aaaargh! this bliddy laptop! I hit the wrong key and everything disappears!
Dinetta said:
Aaaargh! this bliddy laptop! I hit the wrong key and everything disappears!
Did you try undo?
Yes but it didn’t work…well I used the Back button…
What I was meaning to say was I went to Microsoft and read up about the “code” there…it’s legitimate and is MS’s way of confirming that, if you need help with your Hotmail or whatever accounts, you are who you say you are. I refuse to supply a telephone number, and the alternate email address (bigpond) would have been provided when I first set up my account, 12 years ago, so that’s OK. Other Hotmail or .live or what ever accounts are not legitimate alternate accounts, apparently. Wondering if this is a workaround to combat hackers or those saying they want a new password but are lying about being the owners of the Hotmail / .live accounts..
Headsup to Buffy: Death in Paradise, Series 3 Ep1, tonight at 19:30.
But it looks like a different DI Poole?
Dinetta said:
Headsup to Buffy: Death in Paradise, Series 3 Ep1, tonight at 19:30.But it looks like a different DI Poole?
Yeah, it is that loopy teenage entrepeneurial einstein that is in the family sit com.. My Family.
Dinetta said:
Headsup to Buffy: Death in Paradise, Series 3 Ep1, tonight at 19:30.But it looks like a different DI Poole?
Yes, I saw the ads and I Googled. Don’t Google if you don’t want to know. He is not playing DI Poole. He is replacing him. Don’t even read the synopsis of the first episode….DI Poole is in the first one. You may be able to guess, as I did, what happens. Not happy.
Oh, but we will still be watching, me for Danny John-Jules and Mr buffy for Camille….
:)
buffy said:
Oh, but we will still be watching, me for Danny John-Jules and Mr buffy for Camille….
:)
How spot on that assessment is.. :)
Hiya. I’m a headless chook running about in all directions…
Just been so busy. This time of the year I have so much to harvest in my garden that I don’t stop. Thank goodness for the vege swap. I filled the table just with my veges and fruit. Another new food swap started today and I was able to fill a table there too. So much stuff. I swapped a box of beaut apples, celery, eggplants and cucumbers and topped it off with bags of fresh herbs, for a box of home grown tomatoes. Woot! Rattatouille about to be made..I picked 60 passionfruit up off the ground and pulped them. 2 buckets of limes got juiced, and more to come.
My cooking course is going great. I just have to remember that I’m actually going somewhere every Monday and not double book myself, as I did for this coming Mon when I agreed to pick up some pullets from Geelong. The man is going to pick them up for me. Reminder notes now plastered everywhere , lol.
There’s more fluffball chicks in the brooder box, 3 silver spangled hamburgs and two white wyandottes. Oh and a mongrel silkie cross silver spangled.. :)
buffy said:
Oh, but we will still be watching, me for Danny John-Jules and Mr buffy for Camille….
:)
Same…
…but I did read where Ben Miller (the DI Poole) had massive family disruptions because they were filming on location…also (but this is not a reason) he very nearly succumbed to heatstroke on one occasion…
Happy Potter said:
Hiya. I’m a headless chook running about in all directions…
…and I have been so lazy, reading two books a day…
hangs head in shame
Looks like tomorrow morning the new car is going to get a run in drive. Tomorrow is forecast to be cooler than Monday, so we’ll head over to Casterton first thing (in the fog, I expect) and mow the grass before lunch.
Here is the new car. I am going to have quite tired muscles tonight from giving her a coat of wax.
Dinetta said:
Happy Potter said:
Hiya. I’m a headless chook running about in all directions……and I have been so lazy, reading two books a day…
hangs head in shame
I just slept the afternoon away…
buffy said:
Looks like tomorrow morning the new car is going to get a run in drive. Tomorrow is forecast to be cooler than Monday, so we’ll head over to Casterton first thing (in the fog, I expect) and mow the grass before lunch.Here is the new car. I am going to have quite tired muscles tonight from giving her a coat of wax.
Oooh! New toy!!
My little budgie that I have had for about 6 years or more is not well. He has been been sleeping a lot and staying all fluffed up. Closer inspection has revealed a swollen abdomen and very thin breast. Thoughts over on a budgie forum is either tumour or liver disease. Either way he is too advanced to do anything about so am now vacillating between watching him go slowly or helping him to go quickly :(
buffy said:
Looks like tomorrow morning the new car is going to get a run in drive. Tomorrow is forecast to be cooler than Monday, so we’ll head over to Casterton first thing (in the fog, I expect) and mow the grass before lunch.Here is the new car. I am going to have quite tired muscles tonight from giving her a coat of wax.
Lovely! A car that keeps you fit…
bluegreen said:
My little budgie that I have had for about 6 years or more is not well. He has been been sleeping a lot and staying all fluffed up. Closer inspection has revealed a swollen abdomen and very thin breast. Thoughts over on a budgie forum is either tumour or liver disease. Either way he is too advanced to do anything about so am now vacillating between watching him go slowly or helping him to go quickly :(
Get lots of cuddles in before you decide one way or the other…
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
My little budgie that I have had for about 6 years or more is not well. He has been been sleeping a lot and staying all fluffed up. Closer inspection has revealed a swollen abdomen and very thin breast. Thoughts over on a budgie forum is either tumour or liver disease. Either way he is too advanced to do anything about so am now vacillating between watching him go slowly or helping him to go quickly :(
Get lots of cuddles in before you decide one way or the other…
He doesn’t like cuddles :(
OK…..new actor on Death in Paradise is OK. Nice juxtaposition.
bluegreen said:
He doesn’t like cuddles :(
What does he like?
buffy said:
OK…..new actor on Death in Paradise is OK. Nice juxtaposition.
I reserve judgement until the CC is synchronised…
Turned my lights off for half an hour, forgot for the first half hour…local coppers entertained me by pulling people over for breathalysing…right in front of their houses!!! hahahahaha! He did it to P when we first moved here, too…
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
He doesn’t like cuddles :(
What does he like?
He is just happy to be in his cage. The ex used to grab him to take him out and it made him afraid to come out so I just let him be.
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
bluegreen said:
He doesn’t like cuddles :(
What does he like?
He is just happy to be in his cage. The ex used to grab him to take him out and it made him afraid to come out so I just let him be.
So, we drove to Casterton, cut grass for an hour and a half or so, and drove back. The car now has 250km on the clock and it has practised doing all different speeds. And I have parked it in a supermarket carpark. This is possibly no big deal, except that I rarely have a need to do that, so it is a little challenging. Sunday was a good day to choose…….practically no other cars!!!
:)
buffy said:
So, we drove to Casterton, cut grass for an hour and a half or so, and drove back. The car now has 250km on the clock and it has practised doing all different speeds. And I have parked it in a supermarket carpark. This is possibly no big deal, except that I rarely have a need to do that, so it is a little challenging. Sunday was a good day to choose…….practically no other cars!!!
:)
Cabbage whites are making a meal of my baby cruciferae. I’ll have to set up my polystyrene box and net again. And start off the seeds again.
Whoops, showing my age…..we call them Brassicas now, don’t we…..
buffy said:
Whoops, showing my age…..we call them Brassicas now, don’t we…..
Wouldn’t matter. Be it Brassica or Radish..
Non gardening…Sonny Jim has put up the whatsits that my old venetian blind (remember them?) hung from, it’s now ready for curtains. I can put up a rod and also that tight coiled spring stuff. As I have some mosquito nets, synthetic, that I’m probably not likely to use, I think I’ll hang them on the spring thing. that’ll give me a bit of privacy now that the wanderers are back in town (caravan park at the bottom of my street).
After sampling both the cotton and the synthetic net, my preference is for the cotton nets as I find they don’t snag as easily as the synthetic.
There’s a lot of net in mosquito nets! Of the ones I can find, the width is only 1.65m…would one seriously be able to distinguish between the warp and the weft of a mosquito net?