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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
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 Posted - 25/01/2009 : 13:38:54
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well before long you'll be having beefsteaks on top of your beefsteaks 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 15:56:42
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These little seedlings have grown so much the past 3-4 weeks
I planted three near that garden path they are 60cms tall now.
And they have flowers on them now.
Under a Grevillea and sharing the ground with a weeping Bougainvillea
Frangipani, Daylilies a Callistemon and that big white Lily 
Pumpkin on the left is still there from last year there are a few on it too.
A close up.
Tony put one down in a new bed its not doing as well
Probably having a hard time competing with all those weeds.
Do Tommies like spring onions next door or not..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 16:05:42
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 Looking great MA and I see still no borders along the new path 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 16:18:49
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No way Cheryl I am getting too clumsy I have enough problems with those jolly pumpkins vines
Last week they were under the house and all over the path I had to chop them off.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 16:40:55
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Up in the Cape Some locals bag every piece of fruit, every orange,lemon,soursop
every avacado, lemon, pomelo,paw paw,lime,manderine, tangelo plus the others I
have forgotten,
It takes hours a day to bag these fruit,but if you don't want maggoty fruit
you need to go to the trouble.
Then there is the fruit sucker moth, beautiful moth,it has virually the same effect
as the fruit fly.
If ouy go out at night with a torch, you can pick the moth off as soon as it lands.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 16:48:30
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My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 19:21:59
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Thankfully by time these have fruit on them the fruit fly will be gone err I hope.
If not then I will be putting the old net curtains over them..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 19:30:24
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 not the old orange and purple ones
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 17/02/2009 : 20:19:43
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Oh NO errk I have always been a white curtain person I could not think of anything worse than purple curtains between your drapes..
They would probably frighten the fruit fly away though.
I go down the OP shop and buy them white or cream only
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 08:10:37
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Yes I like my white lace as well, the ones in the lounge have roses on them
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 13:09:06
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I am a plain curtain person..I used to have the white voile but now find it very hard to hold the material when sewing.. So I have gone down to the plain white *Anne* from Spotlight as I only have to sew up the edges now and can manage them ok..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 13:37:05
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but I have plain drapes
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 13:50:28
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I forgot to mention the old flying foxes who get all the fruit
that are not protected by bags, their favourite fruit is paw paw
They are protected and rightly so , they are the natural pollinators
of the rain forests.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 21:10:56
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Cheryl I have patterned drapes in the living areas and solid colours in the bedrooms
Now there is one creature I dont like they stink and drop their poo down the outside walls of the house and garage they scream half the night and keep you awake and I hope they stay up in your rain-forest Gwen.
They are certainly not welcome down here, dont they carry some kind of deadly virus..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 23/02/2009 : 15:00:35
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Only been planted four weeks and one of the plants has two small tommies on it already..
The other one is at the back of it, two of the other plants have flowers also.
They are planted in the shade near my path..
The one down the back in the sun all day has not got any flowers yet.
Humm I wonder why..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
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Got Some Beefsteak Seedlings..