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Rick wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:47:30 +1100, "David Hare-Scott" wrote: Billy wrote: Started germinating early this year. The seeds are at least 3 - 5 years old, and were stored in the refrigerator. The peas came on so fast that I need to find my soil thermometer to see how close I am to transplant, or re-pot. I almost totally lost a few lettuce potting cells to neglect, but they have bounced back with watering. Brandywine, Green Zebra, and Stupice tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers have shown themselves from last Sundays planting. The peppers, typically, will take another week to show. I may have walked myself out on a limb with germinating so soon, but as we all know, there aren't any mistakes, just experiments. Week-end work: prepping the lettuce bed, and replacing a Washington orange tree that hasn't even flowered in the last 5 years, and replacing it with an apricot. Maybe I can pot the orange and see if that works. In any event, the jihad begins. I am starting my winter stuff next week. The summer veges are still producing well. I will have to give away beans this week. We have had heavy rain, a torrent was running through the garden and it's on a hillside! As of this morning up north a bit at a little place called Dorrigo they had had 393mm of rain in 24 hours, that's 15 1/2 inches for those who use ells, fathoms and other archaic measures. My river is flooding, where I pump water from is about 8m (17 cubits) under, the pump is of course in the shed, the ends of the pipes will be floating through the tops of the trees. D I've seen a lot of "pro-metric" posts in various places lately. Being a scientist I readily convert back and forth. Still I have a fondness for pecks, bushels, quarts and pints etc. I'd rather have a pint of beer than 475 mls (well OK a pint is only 473.176473 ml) g. When cooking it's cups and teaspoons for me- at the bench, grams and microliters... It is no problem for me to convert either. I suspect that all countries, including those where metric has been well adopted, keep remnants of traditional measures in odd places. Here real estate is almost always measured in acres as well as hectares but rods, poles and perches have gone for good unless you are consulting old plans. My daughters who grew up on metric have no problem knowing what is meant if somebody says 'about an inch' or 'a foot' and they might occasionally use such themselves. I agree that beer should be served in a named vessel, whether it be middy, pint, schooner, jug, pot or whatever. I see no reason to abandon such quirks but that has nothing much to do communicating things like rainfall. Where I have the problem is those who can't be bothered to learn _anything_ about metric measure and who, on international forums, act as if metric measure is some kind of weird thing used only by the minority and geeks, when the reality is the reverse. But back to gardens, the flood is gone and the veges have drained, the fig tree is now out of the river and the sun is shining. I will go down after breakfast and see if my irrigation pipes were fastened as strongly as I wanted. The grass will leap out of the ground this week and all is right with the world. David |
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