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Old 05-05-2003, 02:08 PM
Fran Higham
 
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Default Silent as the tomb..........

"Geodyne" wrote in message

Well, I've been back from the big deep briny for a couple of weeks
now,


So was that a big success?

the Qld blue pumpkin which self seeded
in December jsut before I left home has happily taken over all 100 sq.
m of my backyard and is merrily producing pumpkins.


And how many hundreds of ways can you prepare pumpkin? :-))


DH did very little
watering while I was away and I lost quite a few of the fruit trees I
planted in spring, so I'm now giving up on the idea of an intensive
veg garden in my backyard as too water wasteful for my area and I'm
going to concentrate on xenoscaping the area with drought-tolerant
species


There are some fruits which can still be included in a xeroscape garden.
Prickly pear (I can't find anyone round here who I know that has some - I've
taken to peering into those productive sorts of Italian owned gardens as I
drive by - one day I'll see someone gardening and will ask for a bit),
olive, grapevines (if you keep them contained a bit and on a dripper. Must
be others too but can'tdrag them to mind ATM.