len gardener wrote:
g'dat pete,

ive followed your trials and tribulations and i think you have done
wonders, as ted has with his salt porb's not to your magnitutude but
hey your doing it and winniing.

love to all in our efforts to live ad let live.

greetings to all from len n bev

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Hi Len
As you know everything takes time and if I live to be a hundred I'll
never accomplish most of what I want to do .. besides having a short
whatsisname .... erm attention span ... I get sidetracked and sometimes
decide that fishing would be better for my health than gardening.

But yessum .. I'm getting there slowly, I'm trying the Tall Wheat grass
too as well as OM salt bush, theres some info on the vic govt page below
... I can't post a proper link cos its about 12 feet long but they have
a search engine there.

http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au

I find this stuff grows well in the couple of areas I've planted it I
actually forgot I'd spread some of the seeds till the other grass around
it dried out and the TW grass was the only green clumps left, so the
plan next year is to intermingle some of this grass between the Salt
Bush but this area is lower than the area its growing in now so I don't
know how it will go, the official word is that it grows to 2 metres the
highest mine has got is probably just under 1 metre but its a good plant
for bare scalds and areas of medium to high salinity, probably more
useful as a grazing plant than a PC plant but I find no matter what I do
with the salt bush I eventually get a bare area with foliage at the top
and just woody stems from the ground upto about 1/2 a metre ...so for
extra windbreak coverage low down I need a plant that will tolerate the
salt and fill in those areas ... dunno if this will work cos the salt
bush may take the available water ...but thats the plan ... I want to
get the magic water from the septic tank which I have on a sprinkler
(one of those old metal lawn sprinklers) into a holding tank so that I
can gravity feed a line or lines of windbreaks which have TW grass in
them. ...plans plans... as I say ... if I live to be a hundred....

I just get started and then the wind drops and the tide starts running
... and I can hear the fish and blue crabs calling my name ....

Pete