happy new year everyone :-)

we are bringing in the new year with a lot of mulching, fertilising,
planting out and tidying up of dead things from spring (everything got out
of hand before xmas when i couldn't find the time to do anything much). the
veggie patch has had a makeover & is looking exceedingly organised & lovely
(i like an organised veggie garden, me).

we are really pleased with how much progress we've made in the
nearly-year-and-a-half since we came here to a virtual dead-zone, & now feel
we can take things a bit more slowly. which is good, as the weather's turned
HOT at last.

so, what are you all doing in the garden atm? if you're all having beers on
the verandah & just looking at it's lush loveliness, i shall die of envy g
kylie

"0tterbot" wrote in message
happy new year everyone :-)

And to you and yours.

we are bringing in the new year with a lot of mulching, fertilising,
planting out and tidying up of dead things from spring (everything got out
of hand before xmas when i couldn't find the time to do anything much).
the veggie patch has had a makeover & is looking exceedingly organised &
lovely (i like an organised veggie garden, me).

I do too but I've found it grows too if it's a mess and outside my beds,
it's an appalling mess at the moment. And given the heat we've had int he
past few days it can stay that way till some coolth arrives.

so, what are you all doing in the garden atm? if you're all having beers
on the verandah & just looking at it's lush loveliness, i shall die of
envy g

Did that earlier this evening after the offspring and the granchild arrived.
The offspring even cooked dinner - all I did was make a salad and serve out
some strawberries from the garden which I'd had marinating in some sugar and
brandy - yum.

yes happy new year kylie,

and we will be doing similar to you always mulching to be done.

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:39:32 GMT, "0tterbot" wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/

In article ,
"0tterbot" wrote:

happy new year everyone :-)

we are bringing in the new year with a lot of mulching, fertilising,
planting out and tidying up of dead things from spring (everything got out
of hand before xmas when i couldn't find the time to do anything much). the
veggie patch has had a makeover & is looking exceedingly organised & lovely
(i like an organised veggie garden, me).

Waaaah! Mine is being strangled by kikuyu! I have been hitting bits of it
with Roundup if I can manage not to kill food plants...

we are really pleased with how much progress we've made in the
nearly-year-and-a-half since we came here to a virtual dead-zone, & now feel
we can take things a bit more slowly. which is good, as the weather's turned
HOT at last.

so, what are you all doing in the garden atm? if you're all having beers on
the verandah & just looking at it's lush loveliness, i shall die of envy g

Having cuppas and morosely eyeing the rank kikuyu isn't what you meant, is it?

Though I must admit I am pleased by the cucumbers. And there are signs that
tomorrow might bring our first tomatoes -- just tiddlers, though.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/

Chookie wrote:
In article ,
"0tterbot" wrote:

happy new year everyone :-)

we are bringing in the new year with a lot of mulching, fertilising,
planting out and tidying up of dead things from spring (everything got out
of hand before xmas when i couldn't find the time to do anything much). the
veggie patch has had a makeover & is looking exceedingly organised & lovely
(i like an organised veggie garden, me).

Waaaah! Mine is being strangled by kikuyu! I have been hitting bits of it
with Roundup if I can manage not to kill food plants...

we are really pleased with how much progress we've made in the
nearly-year-and-a-half since we came here to a virtual dead-zone, & now feel
we can take things a bit more slowly. which is good, as the weather's turned
HOT at last.

so, what are you all doing in the garden atm? if you're all having beers on
the verandah & just looking at it's lush loveliness, i shall die of envy g

Having cuppas and morosely eyeing the rank kikuyu isn't what you meant, is it?

Though I must admit I am pleased by the cucumbers. And there are signs that
tomorrow might bring our first tomatoes -- just tiddlers, though.

You may have to move to Melbourne, Australian weather has turned itself
upside down. The part of the garden what didnt suffer has the cucumbers,
and theyve been good now for some three weeks.
I also picked my first tomatoes from a tomato plant that decided to
overwinter in a pot, and we nursed it till it produced the earliest
tomatoes 3 WEEKS before the Melb. show. Black Russian self seeded .
Theyre fast but still subject to diseases. It died after its humongous
effort of giving birth. I reckon a breach birth... We kept the tomato
for seeds...Better luck next time...
Kikyu should be let run riot all over your garden with lush growth, then
whne still green murdered with round up, letting it have all barrrels
two or three times in a season, digging the garden, composting it
fiercely, and any left over cooked by solarisation. IE Black plastic
left over the ground for a month, making sure the area is kept wet for
maximum effect, and for at least a month. Then send in the goats,
chickens and finally one more dig with a rotary hoe, then move...If you
havent succeeded. A person has to know when to give up....

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"0tterbot" wrote in message
happy new year everyone :-)

And to you and yours.

we are bringing in the new year with a lot of mulching, fertilising,
planting out and tidying up of dead things from spring (everything got
out of hand before xmas when i couldn't find the time to do anything
much). the veggie patch has had a makeover & is looking exceedingly
organised & lovely (i like an organised veggie garden, me).

I do too but I've found it grows too if it's a mess and outside my beds,
it's an appalling mess at the moment. And given the heat we've had int he
past few days it can stay that way till some coolth arrives.

well, hello - it's cool today!! hop to it ;-)

i just find i don't really know what's going on if it becomes a huge mess.
as though the eye is overwhelmed instantly g. i also get a bit thingy when
tomatoes need staking, or whatever. which reminds me to stake the tomatoes
again...
kylie


so, what are you all doing in the garden atm? if you're all having beers
on the verandah & just looking at it's lush loveliness, i shall die of
envy g

Did that earlier this evening after the offspring and the granchild
arrived. The offspring even cooked dinner - all I did was make a salad and
serve out some strawberries from the garden which I'd had marinating in
some sugar and brandy - yum.

"Chookie" wrote in message
news:ehrebeniuk-023199.20582202012008@news...
In article ,
"0tterbot" wrote:

happy new year everyone :-)

we are bringing in the new year with a lot of mulching, fertilising,
planting out and tidying up of dead things from spring (everything got
out
of hand before xmas when i couldn't find the time to do anything much).
the
veggie patch has had a makeover & is looking exceedingly organised &
lovely
(i like an organised veggie garden, me).

Waaaah! Mine is being strangled by kikuyu! I have been hitting bits of
it
with Roundup if I can manage not to kill food plants...

well, call me hopelessly naive, but i thought you can just pull out kikuyu!
(clearly i have never had kikuyu myself). i'm always battling with couch
grass. it completely boggles my mind the way it appears not to grow anywhere
at all except into vegetable beds or other places it is not wanted.


we are really pleased with how much progress we've made in the
nearly-year-and-a-half since we came here to a virtual dead-zone, & now
feel
we can take things a bit more slowly. which is good, as the weather's
turned
HOT at last.

so, what are you all doing in the garden atm? if you're all having beers
on
the verandah & just looking at it's lush loveliness, i shall die of envy
g

Having cuppas and morosely eyeing the rank kikuyu isn't what you meant, is
it?

hmmm........... no. that wouldn't make me at all envious.


Though I must admit I am pleased by the cucumbers. And there are signs
that
tomorrow might bring our first tomatoes -- just tiddlers, though.

i have a cherry roma (1) that is about to be ripe!! it's very exciting. at
one point i didn't think i'd get any plants at all coming up, never mind
fruit. now i have plants everywhere (how do they DO that?!)
kylie

"len garden" wrote in message
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yes happy new year kylie,

and we will be doing similar to you always mulching to be done.

makes you feel morally superior, doesn't it g

i've decided i like to mulch with rotting straw that has been in the rain,
because the sellers have nowhere to keep it undercover. (they still sell it
for a dry price, though!! which i find just a tad outrageous).
kylie


On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:39:32 GMT, "0tterbot" wrote:

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With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/

In article ,
"0tterbot" wrote:

Waaaah! Mine is being strangled by kikuyu! I have been hitting bits of
it
with Roundup if I can manage not to kill food plants...

well, call me hopelessly naive, but i thought you can just pull out kikuyu!
(clearly i have never had kikuyu myself). i'm always battling with couch
grass. it completely boggles my mind the way it appears not to grow anywhere
at all except into vegetable beds or other places it is not wanted.

I've got that too, and it reacts the same way when it's "just pulled out" --
regrows from the bits left behind. I do have couch on part of the back yard.
It's nice and soft and the piggies like to eat it.

I've just sheet-mulched the most rampant kikuyu in the vegie patch and hope to
plant it out later today.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/

"Chookie" wrote in message
news:ehrebeniuk-B2037E.14504407012008@news...
In article ,
"0tterbot" wrote:

Waaaah! Mine is being strangled by kikuyu! I have been hitting bits
of
it
with Roundup if I can manage not to kill food plants...

well, call me hopelessly naive, but i thought you can just pull out
kikuyu!
(clearly i have never had kikuyu myself). i'm always battling with couch
grass. it completely boggles my mind the way it appears not to grow
anywhere
at all except into vegetable beds or other places it is not wanted.

I've got that too, and it reacts the same way when it's "just pulled
out" --
regrows from the bits left behind. I do have couch on part of the back
yard.
It's nice and soft and the piggies like to eat it.

it's excellent growing amongst grass. i just can't work out why it won't
stay there, & would rather travel into the beds!! it is evil!!!!

i did spend about 8 months in a rented house clearing it out of my wee
veggie patch. by the time we left it was no longer growing back. i hope to
replicate that result here (eventually).
kylie


I've just sheet-mulched the most rampant kikuyu in the vegie patch and
hope to
plant it out later today.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

http://chookiesbackyard.blogspot.com/