"len brauer" wrote in message

ok any day now i reckon i'm gonna feel the urge to put some update
pics online,

Look forward to seeing them Len. After all the hard work you should give us
a chance to ooh and aaah about the progress you've made from day one.

we are going to try and sell the geese before we turn them into food,

What sort do you have again?

(snip)
without at least
regular rainfall, which currently we are conservatively around 18"s
behind the proverbial 8 ball.

We have had just enough rain to have a green drought here. We are having a
load of feed delivered over the weekend while we can still buy it and just
in case we need it (we will need it desperately if we don't get some good
rain and then follow up rain in the next month).

I bought some straw mulch bales for my tomato plants the other day and it
was $6.60/bale (up from $4 last year!) and 2nd quality lucerne was
$12.50/bale (up from $8 last yr)(thankfully I only had to buy one bale to
make up the number I needed 'cos they were short of straw). AND thankfully
I didn't get around to planting my Tom plants because yesterday morning we
had a frost! The old saying about not planting the toms till the winner of
the Melbourne Cup is known is quite right for this district. I had to do an
early shift at my little part time job and I had to scrape the frost off
with one of my credit cards so it as it wasn't a light frost.

the dam level dam drops by the day, the
bore is now not able to provide water to capacity,

Bummer!

so may need to
prostitute my body to get funds for the extra bit-n-pieces needed so
we can swap between the bore and the tanks. the ultimate being getting
an excavator in and dredging out the water hole then buy a
petrol/diesel powered fire pump to pump water from there to a yet to
be installed gravity feed tank.

I know we discussed the need for a gravity feed tank some time in the past
and thought you'd already put it in. There is always something that needs
doing isn't there?

ok a question:

we have garlic growing out of some of the mulch that we have put
around one of our peanut trees, now we don't throw garlic out what is
lucky enough to sprout (we are high garlic consumers) gets planted.

so now the question there are about 5 garlic plants growing in a small
circle (about 6" diameter), when i first saw them they looked like
garlic but i thought they may be a native plant, but today i crushed
up a bit of leaf and it smells like garlic - so how did it get there?

Could it be garlic chives????? They look somewhat different to garlic but
as they seed prolifically and mine have had a growth ring pattern similar to
the circle you describe. Certainly the leaves are strongly garlic smelling
(they get quite a pretty white flower on them and they look just as good in
the edge of a flowere bed as they do in with the herbs).

do you reckon it could be wild garlic if there is such a beast?

Never heard if it in Aus Len but would certainly image that there may be
wild garlic in the old world (they had to get it from somewhere, didn't
they).