Well the weather is still cold but I notice that birds now have nesting
material in their beaks and when separating a rhubarb today, there are faint
stirrings in the all sorts of things amongst the perennial veg.

Not too long now till Spring (I hope).

Farm1 wrote:

Well the weather is still cold but I notice that birds now have nesting
material in their beaks and when separating a rhubarb today, there are faint
stirrings in the all sorts of things amongst the perennial veg.

Not too long now till Spring (I hope).

the dog days of winter?


songbird

On 7/29/2013 12:22 PM, songbird wrote:
Farm1 wrote:

Well the weather is still cold but I notice that birds now have nesting
material in their beaks and when separating a rhubarb today, there are faint
stirrings in the all sorts of things amongst the perennial veg.

Not too long now till Spring (I hope).

the dog days of winter?


songbird


Guess you learn something everyday. I would assume that the dates are
attached to the seasons but apparently not so in places like Oz:

http://www.australia.com/about/austr...s-seasons.aspx

Frank wrote:
On 7/29/2013 12:22 PM, songbird wrote:
Farm1 wrote:

Well the weather is still cold but I notice that birds now have
nesting material in their beaks and when separating a rhubarb
today, there are faint stirrings in the all sorts of things amongst
the perennial veg. Not too long now till Spring (I hope).

the dog days of winter?


songbird


Guess you learn something everyday. I would assume that the dates are
attached to the seasons but apparently not so in places like Oz:

http://www.australia.com/about/austr...s-seasons.aspx

The definition of season varies all around the world. In fact in some part
of Oz it is different to others. People tend to forget that we have
tropical, subtropical, warm and cool temperate climates in the one country.
In Darwin they have only wet and dry. In Sydney they have four seasons in a
year, in Melbourne in a day.

David

"Frank" wrote in message
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On 7/29/2013 12:22 PM, songbird wrote:
Farm1 wrote:

Well the weather is still cold but I notice that birds now have nesting
material in their beaks and when separating a rhubarb today, there are
faint
stirrings in the all sorts of things amongst the perennial veg.

Not too long now till Spring (I hope).

the dog days of winter?


songbird


Guess you learn something everyday. I would assume that the dates are
attached to the seasons but apparently not so in places like Oz:

http://www.australia.com/about/austr...s-seasons.aspx

The official start date for the start of Sping is 1 September, but as any
gardener knows, dates have little to do with seasons.

In article ,
songbird wrote:

Farm1 wrote:

Well the weather is still cold but I notice that birds now have nesting
material in their beaks and when separating a rhubarb today, there are
faint
stirrings in the all sorts of things amongst the perennial veg.

Not too long now till Spring (I hope).

the dog days of winter?


songbird

Ack! Bite your tongue woman! I want to see red tomatoes first. Great,
heaping piles of red tomatoes of all sizes, garnishing the plates of
innumerable al fresco dinners. Then you'll get your turn ;O)

If it makes you feel any better, The grape harvest will start next
month, and I'm stacking this winter's firewood, now, or should be.
Gotta go!
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"Billy" wrote in message
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In article ,
songbird wrote:

Farm1 wrote:

Well the weather is still cold but I notice that birds now have nesting
material in their beaks and when separating a rhubarb today, there are
faint
stirrings in the all sorts of things amongst the perennial veg.

Not too long now till Spring (I hope).

the dog days of winter?


songbird

Ack! Bite your tongue woman! I want to see red tomatoes first.

:-)) Well if it's any consolation, I know that in the past, I've still been
waiting for red toms to arrive when all you northern hemispherians have been
bragging about the warmign weather and you've all had seedlings coming on.

Great,
heaping piles of red tomatoes of all sizes, garnishing the plates of
innumerable al fresco dinners. Then you'll get your turn ;O)

If it makes you feel any better, The grape harvest will start next
month, and I'm stacking this winter's firewood, now, or should be.
Gotta go!

:-)) We think we have enough wood to get us through the rest of the season.

We pruned my house grape last week and I've weeded my berry cage and dug up
and divided a venerable rhubarb clump, but basically that's all. The roses
still need to be pruned (all 110+ of the sods) and that's traditionally an
August job in this cold (for Aus) climate.

Farm1 wrote:
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We pruned my house grape last week and I've weeded my berry cage and dug up
and divided a venerable rhubarb clump, but basically that's all.

every one of the rhubarb chunks i planted last fall
made it through transplanting this past winter. i
know the experts say to divide it in the spring, but
i've had 100% success dividing in the fall and am often
too busy in the spring.


The roses
still need to be pruned (all 110+ of the sods) and that's traditionally an
August job in this cold (for Aus) climate.

holy crap! that's a lot of roses...


songbird

"songbird" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:
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We pruned my house grape last week and I've weeded my berry cage and dug
up
and divided a venerable rhubarb clump, but basically that's all.

every one of the rhubarb chunks i planted last fall
made it through transplanting this past winter.

Yeh! Applause!

i
know the experts say to divide it in the spring, but
i've had 100% success dividing in the fall and am often
too busy in the spring.

One gardening guru here in Oz says that the right time to do certain tasks
is when you remember to do it. I like that because it suits my disorganised
way of going about gardening


The roses
still need to be pruned (all 110+ of the sods) and that's traditionally
an
August job in this cold (for Aus) climate.

holy crap! that's a lot of roses...

Well it doesnt actually look like we have a lot of roses givent hat they are
scattered around. I know we have more than that but I stopped counting at
(IIRC) 112.

Farm1 wrote:
We pruned my house grape last week and I've weeded my berry cage and
dug up and divided a venerable rhubarb clump, but basically that's
all. The roses still need to be pruned (all 110+ of the sods) and
that's traditionally an August job in this cold (for Aus) climate.

Thus proving you are a masochist. Aside from the pain of thorns and RSI
from the secateurs where do you put that much rose clippings? I have 6
roses, which is all I ever want to see, and I use a native thorn bush (name
escapes me) where I hide the clippings underneath. They take years to
degrade.

D

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:
We pruned my house grape last week and I've weeded my berry cage and
dug up and divided a venerable rhubarb clump, but basically that's
all. The roses still need to be pruned (all 110+ of the sods) and
that's traditionally an August job in this cold (for Aus) climate.

Thus proving you are a masochist.

Most of them were here when we moved here but I do love roses.

Aside from the pain of thorns and RSI
from the secateurs where do you put that much rose clippings?

We load the trailer and take them to the tip.

I have 6
roses, which is all I ever want to see, and I use a native thorn bush
(name escapes me) where I hide the clippings underneath. They take years
to degrade.

We don't ahve a garbage service here and have to go to the tip to dump all
of our domestic and farm rubbish so it's no great hardship to attach the
trailer to the ute and then unload it.

"songbird" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:

Well the weather is still cold but I notice that birds now have nesting
material in their beaks and when separating a rhubarb today, there are
faint
stirrings in the all sorts of things amongst the perennial veg.

Not too long now till Spring (I hope).

the dog days of winter?

Yup. And I am 'over it'!

Farm1 wrote:
songbird wrote:
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the dog days of winter?

Yup. And I am 'over it'!

cheers!

what are you planning on planting this season?


songbird

"songbird" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:
songbird wrote:
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the dog days of winter?

Yup. And I am 'over it'!

cheers!

what are you planning on planting this season?

Ummmmm. Dunno yet. I haven't looked in my seed tins or at Green Harvest to
see what thye've got in their online dogalogue.

And of course there are still lots of things hanging on in the veg garden
and just waiting for a bit more warmth to start a spurt. I've got baby
lettuces and mizuna sulking away as are the onions and there is not even a
sign yet of the eschallots I planted.

"Derald" wrote in message
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songbird wrote:

the dog days of winter?
Do they even have dog days in Oz?

Well, if you are asking if we have them and name them as such to coincide
with the rising of the Dog Star as did the ancient Romans and Greeks, then
no, we don't have them because the Dog Star can be seen for much of the year
here (or so I've been told).

If, however, you mean do we have those stinking hot days of mid summer that
are called 'dog days', then yes, we certainly do have them. A week of temps
over the old ton are enough to drive both humans and dogs quite bonkers.