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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

Rick wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:47:30 +1100, "David Hare-Scott"
wrote:

David, those were lemons you were trying to preserve awhile back,
weren't they? How'd you ever make out with them?
I'm on my way back to zesting and juicing.


Billy wrote:
Started germinating early this year. The seeds are at least 3 - 5
years old, and were stored in the refrigerator. The peas came on so
fast that I need to find my soil thermometer to see how close I am
to transplant, or re-pot. I almost totally lost a few lettuce
potting cells to neglect, but they have bounced back with watering.
Brandywine, Green Zebra, and Stupice tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers
have shown themselves from last Sundays planting. The peppers,
typically, will take another week to show.

I may have walked myself out on a limb with germinating so soon, but
as we all know, there aren't any mistakes, just experiments.

Week-end work: prepping the lettuce bed, and replacing a Washington
orange tree that hasn't even flowered in the last 5 years, and
replacing it with an apricot. Maybe I can pot the orange and see if
that works.

In any event, the jihad begins.

I am starting my winter stuff next week. The summer veges are still
producing well. I will have to give away beans this week.

We have had heavy rain, a torrent was running through the garden and
it's on a hillside! As of this morning up north a bit at a little
place called Dorrigo they had had 393mm of rain in 24 hours, that's
15 1/2 inches for those who use ells, fathoms and other archaic
measures. My river is flooding, where I pump water from is about 8m
(17 cubits) under, the pump is of course in the shed, the ends of
the pipes will be floating through the tops of the trees.

D

I've seen a lot of "pro-metric" posts in various places lately. Being
a scientist I readily convert back and forth. Still I have a fondness
for pecks, bushels, quarts and pints etc. I'd rather have a pint of
beer than 475 mls (well OK a pint is only 473.176473 ml) g. When
cooking it's cups and teaspoons for me- at the bench, grams and
microliters...

It is no problem for me to convert either. I suspect that all countries,
including those where metric has been well adopted, keep remnants of
traditional measures in odd places. Here real estate is almost always
measured in acres as well as hectares but rods, poles and perches have gone
for good unless you are consulting old plans. My daughters who grew up on
metric have no problem knowing what is meant if somebody says 'about an
inch' or 'a foot' and they might occasionally use such themselves. I agree
that beer should be served in a named vessel, whether it be middy, pint,
schooner, jug, pot or whatever. I see no reason to abandon such quirks but
that has nothing much to do communicating things like rainfall.

Where I have the problem is those who can't be bothered to learn _anything_
about metric measure and who, on international forums, act as if metric
measure is some kind of weird thing used only by the minority and geeks,
when the reality is the reverse.

But back to gardens, the flood is gone and the veges have drained, the fig
tree is now out of the river and the sun is shining. I will go down after
breakfast and see if my irrigation pipes were fastened as strongly as I
wanted. The grass will leap out of the ground this week and all is right
with the world.

David

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