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oh nice blue flowers on these beans ~
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Aaawww... I am missing out on everything.... :(
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I can see where you're coming from as I bought my chicks sexed & vaccinated, they are very difficult to come by & not many choices available. (one of the places I bought mine from I believe is no longer in business.) Any chicks purchased from a sm...
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Personaly I try to obtain vaccinated chicks. Bio security from pests and disease is often overlooked by the public . Diseases both in plants and livestock are spreading rapidly due to people not taking precautions in general hygine and quarantine,...
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Receive poultry pal's news letter today with the following information today (I would have attached the newsletter if my notebook didn't die on Friday... Am on iPhone so limited functions)..... I so wanted some bantam white Wyandotte and more arau...
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Unfortunately I won't be able to make it this Sat :( You guys have a fun day ~
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Happy Garden in October/November

With the increased rain and warmer temperatures in October and November, the summer plants like the ones in the Cucurbitaceae family were jumping out of the ground like they are on steroids! (Except for hairy melon, winter melon, and angled luffa… these are so tricky!) They are suffering in the last week as the heat intensify though...

The peas and snowpeas were suffering from powdery mildew except for a few which were grown from seeds saved from a supermarket volunteered plant a couple of year… Continue

Posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:00pm — 8 Comments

Florence

September in Retrospect

Spring’s been knocking on my front door ~ see the photo of our front garden (still needs borders put in, will be re-using our old pavers)

Sunflowers in the front garden



Although just planted, the mulberry tree’s full of ~ well ~ mulberries ~ We’ve harvested about a dozen, before this picture was tak… Continue

Posted on October 4, 2009 at 10:06pm — 8 Comments

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August 'Spring' Preparation

Other then the potato bed, another veggie bed was ready to plant and has been filled with soil + horse manure + coffee ground since my last blog. This is the legume bed, although It’s only 80% filled, but can’t wait to start planting into it. So I’ve sown snowpeas, garden peas, sugarsnaps & pigeon peas in it, except for pigeon peas and garden peas (I think) all have germinated, and the tallest seedling is about 20 cm high!

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Posted on August 26, 2009 at 10:13pm — 4 Comments

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More work in the garden in July ~

The garden reno’s not progressing as much as I hope due to other less interesting but important commitments in life, I can only contribute a couple of hours a week on this project when the weather is good. Except for last weekend when I took a day off to move the 5 cubic metre DeCo I ordered, still some in the front though.

Two of the four veggie beds on the west side of the house are more accurately positioned parallel to the house, lined with black plastics on the inside, and bolted together.… Continue

Posted on July 30, 2009 at 10:22pm — 9 Comments

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Garden renovation in progress

Have noticed that I’ve managed to post one blog each month in the past few months :) Yay~ Well, it’s time for another ~
I haven’t really got anything going at the moment growing wise, as anything that I’ve planted were either destroyed by the chooks, drown in the heavy rain, or stunned by the cold weather. Oh well ~
On the up side, we’ve been getting eggs, and occasionally paw paws and passionfruit! My mum reckons a couple of the largish paw paws have disappeared while still green… I don’t think… Continue

Posted on June 20, 2009 at 9:43pm — 6 Comments

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At 6:16pm on November 30, 2009, Donna said…
Will be home Thursday and do still want them... if it is more convenient name a time and I am happy to pick them up - just PM your address.
At 3:15pm on November 30, 2009, Donna said…
But I need to build the soil up as it is sand and doesn't hold water... maybe coir?
At 2:00pm on November 25, 2009, Vanessa said…
Hi Florence, Shame you won't be here for the December meeting. Have a good time in Melbourne. I still have your chicken book so let me know if you'd like me to drop it around some time.
At 3:18pm on November 15, 2009, Donna said…
This was the other place I have looked at:

http://www.backyardpoultry.com.au/index.php?page=board.php&state=QLD
At 3:13pm on November 15, 2009, Donna said…
Is Albert (you?) interested in raising from eggs...they are in Vic but could be posted maybe?

http://www.farmstock.com.au/Classifieds/sale/88417.html
At 1:52pm on November 9, 2009, Scarlett Patrick said…
re mulberry tree pruning, I think you're best to wait until it's lost its leaves (late Autumn/ Winter) - otherwise it will just sprout back all over the place
At 11:45am on November 9, 2009, Donna said…
The problem with me is that I hate to see any empty spaces in a garden bed - I feel I need to plant something there lol! I have already filled up three beds with seeds and will try to do successive plantings every few weeks as I get time. I still need to get the seed raising tub with a shade cloth cover over it so I can raise seedlings rather than having to plant everything direct.

Hopefully if I have a good mixture of a few of each in all the beds and then keep the beds totally full of a variety of things nothing will be able to build up in the soil!

PS. The previous comment was in relation to Mulberry Pruning as per your Status - should have mentioned that lol.
At 11:40am on November 9, 2009, Donna said…
Florence, my book 'Pruning & Training' says:
When to Prune:
Only in early to midwinter, when fully dormant. Older trees, however, may still bleed copiously (a red hot poker is traditionally used to cauterise wounds), so only prune established trees if absolutely necessary. Remove dead wood in summer.

But then it also says:
Summer pruning new shoots to five leaves helps keep them compact, and tying down branches to the horizontal can increase crops.
At 3:07pm on November 8, 2009, Donna said…
Found this information but can't find the other post now and don't have any time to look, might get a chance later but at least I will know where to find it again lol:

http://luffa.info/faq.htm

The ratios of fertilizer elements in the soil can affect flower ratios for luffa and other similar flowering plants. High nitrogen can increase the number of males while high phosphorous may encourage more females. So if you are lacking female flowers some additional phosphorous may help.
At 1:36pm on September 11, 2009, Vanessa Thompson (pomare) said…
thank you, now i just have to work on hubby and let us have some chicks. He still going on about snakes and wants a dog if we do......???? AHHHH.
Anyru, our neighbours have chickens and havent seen a snake yet...unlike our old neighbours. (we saw snakes all the time but i think its becasue they never cleaned up and their place was like a zoo...no joke) So shall work on hubby over the next month and see how i go lol.
 
 

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