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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
 Posted - 08/01/2009 : 21:27:08
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hallo di!
very nice to see you here.
hope you enjoy your visit and find some helpful info here at garden delights.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 04:03:56
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Welcome to GD 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 04:18:41
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Hi Di gee some more dirt pokers |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10810 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 06:47:00
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Hi Di Welcome again as I have already Welcomed you yesterday..
Looking forward to hearing about what you are growing in your garden..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 06:48:39
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LOL, richard.
you're going to outgrow that dirt-poker title very soon now.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 07:28:09
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Hi Di and welcome to out friendly play house 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Di Taylor
assistant gardener
New Zealand
188 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 07:29:03
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Hi thanks to both Richard and Tessa for the welcome. Great site, I am already a few steps closer to solving my curcubit dilemna, well I will be when I have wokred out how to upload photos  Hey Tessa, seeds arrived, thank you soooo much, quite exciting just have to be patient now and count down the months till I can do something with them. Have been out today trimming and tying my toms and I think the subarctics true to form are all going to ripen at once, won't be any complaints here about that we are keen to get munching. Found a place that sells the poycarb twin wall panels Richard, so am hatching a plan, will get a photo uploaded and explain what I want to do - you can tell me if it will work  I am off to ask questions about rhubarb... see ya later. thanks again Tessa
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
 Posted - 09/01/2009 : 08:51:53
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Welcome Di,hope you enjoy GD as much as I do.So much good free advice ,and so friendly.Pitta.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2009 : 10:23:08
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di...you can plant those kimberleys NOW!
don't worry if it doesn't work out in the end...i've got more seeds fermenting as we speak!
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 13/01/2009 : 02:47:39
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quote:
Originally posted by tessa
LOL, richard.
you're going to outgrow that dirt-poker title very soon now.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 13/01/2009 : 07:21:08
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three more posts, richard.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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Di Taylor
assistant gardener
New Zealand
188 Posts |
Posted - 14/01/2009 : 03:39:03
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Wow what a warm welcome, thanks Richard for the direction to tomatoville which put me in touch with Tessa who directed me here, this is by far the friendliest of the forums, very cool . I will give some kimberleys a go now then Tessa, I will have my minigreenhouse done by the time the cold weather gets here and they can be my guineapigs. Have just been out having an early morning browse of the garden before I head off to work and I thin we will be picking toms by tomorrow - about darn time I see I have pepinos starting to form, never tried one and have no idea what to do with them so I guess in a few weeks I will be looking for ideas  Must dash, need to feed Thelma and Theodore before I go they are at the window squawking ...
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 14/01/2009 : 08:08:49
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oh! who are thelma and theodore???? squawking at the windows. LOL. sounds like our two chickens who let us know in no uncertain terms that it is time to feed them!
di...i just fermented a rather large batch of kimberley seeds...so don't feel the need to restrain yourself. more seeds are just days away.
i think of all the possible tomatoes you could trial in your greenhouse....kimberley makes the most sense for many reasons:
1) siberian parentage...therefore cold hearty.
2) cherry parentage...therefore semi-perrenial.
3) smallish plant...therefore ceiling-friendly.
4) subjective size: could be considered a large cherry, could be considered a small slicer. for sure it will give you both larger and smaller fruits...so can be used in a variety of ways.
5) outstanding taste. absolutely no compromise on the taste front in exchange for all those other benefits.
good luck and happy growing!
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 14/01/2009 : 09:28:14
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I was hoping Thelma and Theodore weren't kids  I've been tempted to keep my kids outside but I don't think I could put up with their squawking at the windows for long
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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Di Taylor
assistant gardener
New Zealand
188 Posts |
Posted - 14/01/2009 : 17:34:54
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Thelma and Theodore are my semi-tame recently release juvenile thrushes  . I am a vet's nurse and the clinic I work for runs a wildlife service so we get truck loads of birds in, I bring a few home, I particularly love the pretty thrushes. When you release juveniles that have been hand fed they hang around, being lazy - they can feed themselves but love a treat to be fed to them by hand. My guys are just starting to keep their distance a bit more now - didn't get hand fed today at all for the first time in a week since release.
Tessa, I just got off the phone with Richard and I am going to plant Kimberley this week to grow inside as a potplant through winter as well as a trial for my "mini-greenhouse". We have lots of windows and light and he is pretty confident it should crop right through inside
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 14/01/2009 : 17:43:14
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Wow Di, what a most rewarding job, I get the usual babies here, mostly ferals but do try and keep the cat at bay , she is getting very old an lazy so most make it to fly away from Mum, usually around 3 - 4 nests  , but then again you have strays etc.... .
I'm glad you found your old friends here, I never knew this place existed and was given the ling, and your 10% the most friendliest site i visit maybe because it is small and you have time to read all the posts
Onya Tessa
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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welcome di