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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
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 Posted - 18/02/2009 : 03:41:14
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Not off to "big smoke" today,so big day in garden,
8 05 am,kids off down the road to school bus
8 10 put load of washing on
8 20 drive down to river for load of shingle
9 00 start mixing cement for another block in the path
10 00 harvest more parsnip seed(done weekly)
10 30 start harvesting red onion seed,and have it laid out in the shed,area dug over ,composted and planted in wheat by 3 35 by the time kids arrive off the bus.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 07:19:56
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Gee that looks like my list minus a few, no little ones here.
Freebies at the river lucky you.
So I guess we wont be seeing you here much today Richard
Have fun...
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 07:40:43
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My mission is to try to get out into the garden today... doesn't look good at the moment 
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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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 08:03:18
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 A real busy bee today Richard, I'm still waiting to go outside yet, must pull the finger out, back is a little tender so no hurry, have to go shopping for food, I hate that and the boy wants to get his ear pierced  Oh well I cant say NO as I told him when he was about 1o, when your working and pay for it yourself 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
Melbourne |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 13:50:37
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Plans changed some what as it started to drizzle and the onion seed got wet, ended up doing three blocks instead of the one.
The drizzle stopped about mid day so i got 2 hours in at the end of today harvesting the onion seed,slow job,too many weeks |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 14:13:08
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well done Richard, you did a lot more than I managed today  , do you eat the onions now ??
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 17:15:17
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| At the base of each clump there are some onions that didn`t seed up a flower stem,so yes you can,give half a bag each to two neighbours from todays pick.I`ll show you tomorrow with a photo |
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 17:56:22
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That soil from where you took the onions looks great
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 18:16:18
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| It is pitta,but it wasn`t once,i worked out the other day how much horse poo and sawdust i`ve have bought on to this place,800 trailer loads=400x m.Plus all the growing beds are double dug(sub soil on top of top soil),once i had 40cm of soil now i have 80cm. |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 18/02/2009 : 20:01:28
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Well done Richard .. 80 cms of soil sounds divine...
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 19/02/2009 : 02:54:07
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The first few years after i double dug i was growing in mostly clay,it was horrible. The way i see it the deeper the roots can penetrate the tallier the top growth,well that's what i tell people who say LOOK At your suNFLOWERS.
Todays gardening mission is to finish off harvesting the onion seed
before rain this weekend  yes all right more photos |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 19/02/2009 : 04:29:39
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goodo, I know the clay probs, still a bit here after 17 years where the bird poop lilly pilly is I have lost count as to what I have aded to the garden over the years would love a $1.00 for every bag of potting mix I have bought 
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 - 19/02/2009 : 09:55:43
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We had lots of clay here too about 30cms down not much soil at all really, so I have many raised garden beds its the only way to go here.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 24/02/2009 : 02:58:41
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| Todays misson Drive up the road cut some trees down for this winters firewood,.....hows that for boring, |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 24/02/2009 : 04:00:21
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Tuesday mornings are one time I can often manage to get outside for a couple of hours  then come in for lunch and doing some computer work for about about 3 hours... which doesn't mean being on GD either though I will be peaking in regularly for a sanity break
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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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 24/02/2009 : 05:45:15
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well I spend most of each day out in the garden. Not always fruitful. Yesterday I worked out how to drill a hole in the base of my new towable 100 L sprayer and found a cap to screw it tight so I could fill it and empty it to clean it and then filled it with 80L of water and 640 ml of Fusilade and some surfactant (Fusilade costs $100 for 1000 ml so that was about $65 worth) but I figured it was worth it if I could get all my edges of couch, paspalum and kikiyu done and also spray the newly mulched beds for spikes of new paspalum as it will not be needed to be done again until next summer and I can just keep the edges neat then with the spade. The big plus with Fusilade is that it kills only monopods - ie things with one process or spike such as grass and has no effect on roses and other plants. Thought about rain but it only needs one hour to be rain safe and the sky was blue. So many edges and the kike and couch are about 2 feet into the newly mulched garden beds with edges dug only 2 weeks ago. Happily drove around and did it. The second I finished - took me about 20 minutes, the sky opened up into a tremendous thunderstorm and about 10 ml of rain. So $65 down the drain literally.
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Edited by - Pamela on 24/02/2009 05:46:56 |
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