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Poppy issue
"Trish Brown" wrote in message node... Polly the Parrot wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:02:18 +1000 terryc wrote: I'm sure Bunnings follows the old adage that flowering plants sell better than non-flowering plants. Err... sure sucked me in! As a matter of fact, I picked up six heartsease plants for 50c each at Bunnings. They had all finished flowering and had been put in the chuck-out trolley for mugs like me. Well! I know have a beeootiful display of lovely pink and purple heartsease spilling out of my hanging baskets ($6 at GoLo)! My leeks are nearly eight inches tall and my silver beet are enormous. Can't wait to harvest something - anything! - from my garden! Harvested my first cut of silverbeet from Bunnings. Grown in lovely black clay (Darling Downs) with blood & bone, chook excreta & trace elements. Will be adding the sheep droppings in spring to other areas to aid bulking up. As an aside, while digging the other day, I uncovered three shovel-headed planarian worms. These are flatworms that live off the 'soup' in the soil substrate and they're *so* interesting. If you cut one in half, both halves will regenerate and grow. If you cut a chunk out of the side of one, it will grow an entire new head-end and become y-shaped. We studied these creatures a million years ago when I was doing Biology at Uni and in all these years, it's the first time I've seen them 'in the wild' as it were. I returned them carefully to the soil and will hope to meet them again some time. -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia -- Posted on news://freenews.netfront.net - Complaints to -- |
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