"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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Yup. I sent He who Thinks He Should be Obeyed in to buy me some cord and
plastic rings for a Roman blind I'm making. You should have seen the shit
they sent him home with and it won't be of any se at all

(i'd probably have been suspicious of that happening, & gone myself!)

I went in there to buy some japara that I'd seen a week before and of
couse they'd done a rearrangement and I had to go through 5 staff before
i found one who even knew what japara was.

(i don't know what japara is... ;-)

It comes in a number of weights and can be oiled or not. It's a closely
woven fabric and you would know oiled Japara as Driz-a-bone. the one I
saw was unoiled though and it is used for doona covers and feather cushion
covers.

learn something new every day!


It works for Paul D. who has the mudbrick house and the trout ponds
outside his balcony as that is how he plants his trees.

undoubtedly, he had the foresight to create miniature tablelands, rather
than tiny silly mounds! :-)

No -many silly little mounds but they are allowing him to grow his trees
OK.

give me a few years & i might withdraw the silly mounds opinion. not yet
though!!!! of course, i came across our mounds when it was as dry as
anything & because of them couldn't seem to get any water going onto the
actual trees. now it's wet, things are different. argh!
kylie

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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message

Yup. I sent He who Thinks He Should be Obeyed in to buy me some cord and
plastic rings for a Roman blind I'm making. You should have seen the
shit they sent him home with and it won't be of any se at all

(i'd probably have been suspicious of that happening, & gone myself!)

I didhave some nasty thoughts about his capacity to do the job, so I told
him to find a staff member and very specifically to ask to be shown t
section where the Roman Blind stuff was kept, to read any information if the
stuff was in little plastic packs etc, etc. He got one of the idiot staff,
who "helped him" get the "right stuff". Sigh!

I did consider going, but since I was in my pygamas and wanted to do
something else, I thought that this was one job that would be difficult to
stuff up. Mea culpa.

No -many silly little mounds but they are allowing him to grow his trees
OK.

give me a few years & i might withdraw the silly mounds opinion. not yet
though!!!! of course, i came across our mounds when it was as dry as
anything & because of them couldn't seem to get any water going onto the
actual trees. now it's wet, things are different. argh!

Paul's sill little mopunds are ones with a scoop shae in the top to hold
water fro those drier times. A bit like a pumpkin planting mounds - raised
up, about a metre wide but with the dish shaped top - he plants into the
dish shape.

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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give me a few years & i might withdraw the silly mounds opinion. not yet
though!!!! of course, i came across our mounds when it was as dry as
anything & because of them couldn't seem to get any water going onto the
actual trees. now it's wet, things are different. argh!

Paul's sill little mopunds are ones with a scoop shae in the top to hold
water fro those drier times. A bit like a pumpkin planting mounds -
raised up, about a metre wide but with the dish shaped top - he plants
into the dish shape.

THAT makes sense.
at our place, some were placed along small ridges, (less than 1m wide). you
can imagine how silly that seems to me.
kylie

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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message

give me a few years & i might withdraw the silly mounds opinion. not yet
though!!!! of course, i came across our mounds when it was as dry as
anything & because of them couldn't seem to get any water going onto the
actual trees. now it's wet, things are different. argh!

Paul's sill little mopunds are ones with a scoop shae in the top to hold
water fro those drier times. A bit like a pumpkin planting mounds -
raised up, about a metre wide but with the dish shaped top - he plants
into the dish shape.

THAT makes sense.
at our place, some were placed along small ridges, (less than 1m wide).
you can imagine how silly that seems to me.

Hmmm, sounds to me like the ridges might have been formed by machinery??????
Could that be the explanation of how they were made or are they supposed to
be sawles for water diversion? Where you are in wet times, it makes sense
planting on mounds/ridges rather than in a depression whihc makes more sense
here.

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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THAT makes sense.
at our place, some were placed along small ridges, (less than 1m wide).
you can imagine how silly that seems to me.

Hmmm, sounds to me like the ridges might have been formed by
machinery??????

yes.

Could that be the explanation of how they were made or are they supposed
to be sawles for water diversion? Where you are in wet times, it makes
sense planting on mounds/ridges rather than in a depression whihc makes
more sense here.

i think they might have been swales - in which case they are running
slightly the wrong direction!, or planting ridges (the 2nd-previous owners
wrote in their book that they brought a commercial crop of snow peas to
fruition, so they might have been for that, or for the raspberries that were
there on the ridges, but since wandered. or indeed swales and planting
ridges combined. there used to be more fruit trees (or something) on the
ridges but they died before we came. the ridges look to be flattening out
more now. is that possible? (compaction, presumably).

this is the same area where there are lines of jonquils, which i have
mentioned. they also did lavender and garlic in lines, but those lines are
more the "right" direction to catch run-off. i can't quite fathom what they
were exactly trying to achieve tbh. i think too much stuff died after they
left for it to be clear what they were doing, really.
kylie