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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 12/03/2009 : 21:06:08
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It was like this yesterday afternoon too... 
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 - 12/03/2009 : 21:08:06
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When slow I close other windows in the net down, I often have lots open  sometimes far to many LOL
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 - 12/03/2009 : 21:15:11
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Nothing else opened at all..
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 - 12/03/2009 : 21:32:26
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If slow my end I just click the all forums, and then the new posts areas works well for me 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 13/03/2009 : 06:01:01
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Richard, a few years ago at my kid's school, one of the teachers started a vegie garden. The garden club part was to encourage the kids. Naturally, I was involved (anything to do with plants  ) and they asked for someone to do an article for the school newletter each week... it went from a paragaph or two to a double page newsletter due to demand... trouble is the parents wanted to read it but not participate and help out in the garden. The teacher was transferred after a year, I tried to keep the garden club going but no other teacher has taken it on. The garden newsletter went back to a couple of paragraphs as it wasn't worth the couple of hours spent doing it if there weren't any helpers (a couple would help occasionally) for the garden. I did stop writing the newsletter (still worked in the garden though) for a while but was asked to keep doing a couple of paragraphs to put in the school newsletter to try an encourage parents to be involved... except for a couple of people it doesn't really help. Our main problem is because we are in a rural area, most of the parents (the ones that don't work) live too far out to come up to the school to help out on a regular basis. Also, even though the teachers like the idea, they don't really know the first thing about gardening and they have so much these days to squeeze into a teaching day that they just don't have the time. I don't do anything in the vegie garden these days but go up a couple of afternoons for half an hour and help tidy the other gardens - the groundsman has trouble keeping the gardens tidy on top of all his other work especially in summer when he has to mow weekly. Mowing takes him 2 days so doesn't leave a lot of time for other jobs that have to be done... his main jobs are maintenance and repairs rather than gardens.
I will keep doing the couple of paragraphs, one day it might help, but I keep running out of new ideas so am always looking for new ones.
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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Tropical Fruits