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len gardener wrote:
anyhow take care and have a great season if we don't get to chat bfore hand. A good time to wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas wherever you may be. Hoping you get to spend it with the people who matter to you and hope the new year brings peace and happiness. Merry Christmas everyone |
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On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 08:12:12 GMT, pete wrote:
len gardener wrote: anyhow take care and have a great season if we don't get to chat bfore hand. A good time to wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas wherever you may be. Hoping you get to spend it with the people who matter to you and hope the new year brings peace and happiness. Merry Christmas everyone And from me too. Merry Christmas Len, Pete, everyone else. Geodyne |
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"pete" wrote in message
A good time to wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas wherever you may be. Hoping you get to spend it with the people who matter to you and hope the new year brings peace and happiness. Merry Christmas everyone And ditto to you Pete and anyone else who reads this. Fran |
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len gardener wrote: don't know if this will help but i am writting an essay on how i see and do perma-c. itis open ended and not finished but there may be some tips that you could use? http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gard...ture_essay.htm Guess who DID buy their property for the aspect? :-) The down side (as the block had only one lemon tree, apart from the mangoes planted strategically over the main sewer line) is that I have TOO MUCH sun in summer. Waiting a few years while the trees and shrubs grow along the western side. I'm fumbling my way into urban permaculture, very slowly. I have a 3yo (and another on the way in May, so gardening will be increasingly difficult in autumn, the main working season), DH is anti-poultry, and our plans to retrofit/extend our house for better temperature control and usability are looking increasingly expensive! Unfortunately, a number of other permie ideas hang off the extension (eg, moving the vegie patch away from its current NW aspect, which has had a bad effect on my summer crops, to a purely northerly one sheltered by the new wing of the house). Started a new thread to see what the rest of you are up to. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Life is like a cigarette -- smoke it to the butt." -- Harvie Krumpet |
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g'day chookie,
yes as we found the best aspect land may not have all the attributes needed for comfortable living right up front, but you are streets ahead of any other aspects when it comes to ending up with the ideal or as close to as you can get. we have our house aspected nroth (magnetic) as you know but then we don't have any windbreak trees for our western side and some protection from the southern side. and we ahve had to plant lots of trees to the south east to some day tune down the south/easterly needed for summer comfort but blowing way too strong. but all that is the legacy of buying x-ag land that has been clear felled. our gardens have eastern aspects as northern aspect can be pretty hot for them in the summer but you could plant deciduous trees to provide summer sun shelter for the gardens, and being deciduous these won't interfere with the sun you need for the house in winter. so when i read of people having problems with uncomfortable conditions on the wrong aspects, it's a bit more heartening for us as in time trees or even and extension will change a whole lot of things. something to look forward to. just finding out how long it takes to get trees to a height where they will have the impact needed, so very easy to chop them down though hey? so we in a similar situation to you. have fun len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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