On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:09:43 +1100, "Farm1"
wrote:

"Jeßus" wrote in message
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:32:31 +1100, "Farm1"
wrote:

...now it's spring, what are you all up to?

Watching the weeds in the veggie garden grow! Every bloody time I'm
all set to get stuck into it, something else comes up that has a
higher priority... it'll have to be either later this week or early
next. Gotta get those spuds in soon, with luck all the serious frosts
are behind us now.

I know the feeling. We got stuck in the other day. I've been faffing round
for weeks trying to make a mark and Himself did more in 1 day than I've done
in weeks. It really emphasisied for me the difference in how men and women
work. He really focusses and I (sort of) multi task.

LOL. Well, I'm most woman-like then
But I've learned (I think)... once the seemingly endless half-finished
projects I have are completed, in future I'll start ONE project and
complete it - then move onto the next... that's what I tell myself
anyway

I notice a plant
needs water as I'm trying to weed near it. I give it water and then 'cos
the soil is so soggy I cant' continue to weed there till the next day, but
while I was getting the water int he watering can, I notice that the area
under the tank looks like a snake haven and so clear that. And so it goes
on.

Yes, exactly! I do this all the bloody time.

He just does what he set out to do.

I'm hoping to become more like that...

I'm sure that when you do get time you'll make huge inroads ina short time.

I've been busy in the veg patch, the rose bed and doing garden visits
which
always inspire me and fire me into action.

We've had 8 huge pine trees removed from between my rose bed and the veg
patch so now there will be no further root competition from the blasted
things. It was amazing to watch the men clib the trees to drop them in
chunks but in the process they dropped a huge branch on my wonderful old
Hills Hoist and it took weeks before they replaced it with a new one. Of
course the new one is crap quality.

Bugger on the clothesline...

I imagine the soil is fairly acidic where the pien trees were, could
be good for Azelias or Blueberries.

Ah! Thanks for that tip. I'd prefer something productive and azaleas don't
do well here because of our savage frosts.

Speaking of Blueberries and acidic soil, I have several plants
scattered around the gardens but they haven't exactly gone crazy.
I'm thinking of creating a bed just for blueberries, I have access to
plenty of decades-old sawdust, which they would love to grow in.
I'm making a LOT of blueberry mead these days, so it's something I
should do, as supply of quality berries can be patchy at times.

So how many blueberry plants do you have? Are your own plants the ones
that you make mead form our are they bought in? In any event, it sounds
delicious.


I only have a few blueberry plants at this time, I still buy from a
couple of people most of the time, for the mead at least as it
requires an awful lot of blueberries. One day I'll put a decent patch
in but it's a big job. I'll have to fence the lot with corrugated iron
just to keep the possums out, just for starters.

My poor Silver Birches have taken a real hammering from the little
*******s. It's so disheartening to see a birch tree grow so well, then
overnight the main stem is snapped clean off about 2 metres from the
top... I melted some lard yesterday and mixed some kero in it. I'm
going to smear it all over the birch tree's trunks in the hope it
deters them.