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Calling all gardeners in Aus...
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:09:43 +1100, "Farm1"
wrote: "Jeßus" wrote in message On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:32:31 +1100, "Farm1" wrote: ...now it's spring, what are you all up to? Watching the weeds in the veggie garden grow! Every bloody time I'm all set to get stuck into it, something else comes up that has a higher priority... it'll have to be either later this week or early next. Gotta get those spuds in soon, with luck all the serious frosts are behind us now. I know the feeling. We got stuck in the other day. I've been faffing round for weeks trying to make a mark and Himself did more in 1 day than I've done in weeks. It really emphasisied for me the difference in how men and women work. He really focusses and I (sort of) multi task. LOL. Well, I'm most woman-like then But I've learned (I think)... once the seemingly endless half-finished projects I have are completed, in future I'll start ONE project and complete it - then move onto the next... that's what I tell myself anyway I notice a plant needs water as I'm trying to weed near it. I give it water and then 'cos the soil is so soggy I cant' continue to weed there till the next day, but while I was getting the water int he watering can, I notice that the area under the tank looks like a snake haven and so clear that. And so it goes on. Yes, exactly! I do this all the bloody time. He just does what he set out to do. I'm hoping to become more like that... I'm sure that when you do get time you'll make huge inroads ina short time. I've been busy in the veg patch, the rose bed and doing garden visits which always inspire me and fire me into action. We've had 8 huge pine trees removed from between my rose bed and the veg patch so now there will be no further root competition from the blasted things. It was amazing to watch the men clib the trees to drop them in chunks but in the process they dropped a huge branch on my wonderful old Hills Hoist and it took weeks before they replaced it with a new one. Of course the new one is crap quality. Bugger on the clothesline... I imagine the soil is fairly acidic where the pien trees were, could be good for Azelias or Blueberries. Ah! Thanks for that tip. I'd prefer something productive and azaleas don't do well here because of our savage frosts. Speaking of Blueberries and acidic soil, I have several plants scattered around the gardens but they haven't exactly gone crazy. I'm thinking of creating a bed just for blueberries, I have access to plenty of decades-old sawdust, which they would love to grow in. I'm making a LOT of blueberry mead these days, so it's something I should do, as supply of quality berries can be patchy at times. So how many blueberry plants do you have? Are your own plants the ones that you make mead form our are they bought in? In any event, it sounds delicious. I only have a few blueberry plants at this time, I still buy from a couple of people most of the time, for the mead at least as it requires an awful lot of blueberries. One day I'll put a decent patch in but it's a big job. I'll have to fence the lot with corrugated iron just to keep the possums out, just for starters. My poor Silver Birches have taken a real hammering from the little *******s. It's so disheartening to see a birch tree grow so well, then overnight the main stem is snapped clean off about 2 metres from the top... I melted some lard yesterday and mixed some kero in it. I'm going to smear it all over the birch tree's trunks in the hope it deters them. |
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