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songbird wrote:

Farm1 wrote:

Well the weather is still cold but I notice that birds now have nesting
material in their beaks and when separating a rhubarb today, there are
faint
stirrings in the all sorts of things amongst the perennial veg.

Not too long now till Spring (I hope).

the dog days of winter?


songbird

Ack! Bite your tongue woman! I want to see red tomatoes first.

:-)) Well if it's any consolation, I know that in the past, I've still been
waiting for red toms to arrive when all you northern hemispherians have been
bragging about the warmign weather and you've all had seedlings coming on.

Great,
heaping piles of red tomatoes of all sizes, garnishing the plates of
innumerable al fresco dinners. Then you'll get your turn ;O)

If it makes you feel any better, The grape harvest will start next
month, and I'm stacking this winter's firewood, now, or should be.
Gotta go!

:-)) We think we have enough wood to get us through the rest of the season.

We pruned my house grape last week and I've weeded my berry cage and dug up
and divided a venerable rhubarb clump, but basically that's all. The roses
still need to be pruned (all 110+ of the sods) and that's traditionally an
August job in this cold (for Aus) climate.